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Originally Posted by NISFAN
This leads to bean counters fighting back undoing all the expensive stuff you implemented to achieve "the BMW balance", because it's broken anyway and Audi do OK without. You've lost the anchor in the argument, that historical yardstick. It doesn't get replaced by 55:45, no it it just goes.
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Indeed, but the 50/50 is a design objective, not something that you discover afterwards.
The trick they use since ever, is pushing the engine as much as possible to the center of the car and moving some periferals like the battery to the back. With their longitudinal RWD driveline architecture they can also push the transmisson to the center of the car while a transversal config has it installed at the same position as the engine. Of course, you would like to concentrate the weight as much as possible between the axles, but you still need some interior space.
Nonetheless, why would they destress this USP now? Is it that customers more value the 0.4 inch of added interior length?
