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Originally Posted by Cavpilot2k
I think it will.
If the M2 lives up to its potential, the only reason anybody would buy the M4 is as a status symbol because it will cost more. And those kind of douchebags can't be helped.
No really: The M2 will be what the M3 (now M4) used to be before it got fat and bloated, picked up extra doors, and went chasing the Bentley GT crowd, which is more interested in "I have the coolest car" rather than its actual performance.
Thoughts?
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Wow. Thoughts?
1. Performance isn't everything. Even fun factor is only one of many ways we value a car. If performance is all that's important to you, you're looking at the wrong cars.
2. Your simplistic notion that performance = value is exactly why BMW
won't build the M2 you'd like them to.
It's your attitude, and your assumption that anyone who buys an M4 is a "douchebag" if the M2 is as quick, that guarantees BMW will never make the M2 as quick.
You ignore comfort, space, practicality, high speed cruising, etc. You focus exclusively on one area, judge anyone else who doesn't, and in doing so screw it up for the rest of us. Your thinking is why Porsche makes record profits adding 10 hp at a time with software programming and charging thousands for it, when in reality it'd be cheaper and easier to simply fit everything with the bigger 3.8S motor. Your thinking is why we'll get a "watered down" M2, when fitting the M3/4 motor would be easy. Your focus on performance numbers is one of the reasons we've lots a manual transmission option on Porsche GT cars, and will soon lose the option on BMWs as well.
There is plenty of room for all types of great sports cars and GT cars, each focused on doing different things well, to coexist. If we let them.