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      01-11-2019, 05:45 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by kozzi View Post
I agree if I am understanding your post correctly. This is nothing more than BMW playing games with numbers and trying to compare apples to apples. They like to eat their cake and have it too.

MP vehicles are not M vehicles. Well except when BMW needs to compete with AMG and show that they can sell almost as many Ms as Mercedes can sell AMGs.

Give me a break BMW. Mercedes made up their mind. Either commit or don't but this in-between stuff...sucks!
I can't believe it took me 3-4 posts and I still couldn't adequately explain the phenomenon at hand as well as you just did up there, kudos.

This is precisely the situation: BMW wants their cake and be able to eat it too.
They don't want MPA's to be classified as M models, but want it to be accounted for in sales figures.

You're right in that it's all highly manipulative and BMW can't commit to one or the other.
They tread this in-between line so that they can lean either way whenever the situation suits them right.

Great post.
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