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Originally Posted by HBspeed
You are still avoiding that fact that the 2-series is not a small car or on a platform that was designed solely for light weight. The 2-series is built on a modified 3-series platform which is a mid-size to large car now. Thus it doesn't make sense to artificially limit such a platform to a 4-cylinder engine, in the same way as it would in a platform initially designed around a consistent theme of lightness.
This generation 2-series, regardless of utilizing some CFRP non-structural panels, will never be anywhere close to a featherweight sports car where a 4-cylinder or smaller engine is an ideal compromise on the path towards ultimate lightness. A sports car platform that is sized/designed correctly for a 4-cylinder engine to be ideal would be an Elise, Miata, 4C, S2000, etc. The 2-series does not belong in the same class as these other featherweight focused sports cars.
Therefore, a 4-cylinder while it may save weight and improve weight distribution, is truly a compromise in such a relatively large and heavy platform. People can spin this however way they want, but that does not change the fact that many potential buyers will never be content with this compromise being made to a "pure sports car" being built on such an undeniably unfocused platform.
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3 Series is a large car? Toyota Corolla is 182.6 inches long, Chevy Cruze is 181 inches and 3 series 182.5. Better tell all those Corolla and Cruze owners they are driving large cars around, by the way those two are either classified as small or compact by all sources.
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