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Originally Posted by IS3andME
The 2017 1 series will be FWD/AWD...
BMW is about making money, and the bean counters have first say. There is no 2 series GC, which means if they make a M2 GC, they would have to make a new body, with doors and chassis mods, that takes money and time to engineer. M cars come from existing cars. So, unless there are plans for a 2 series GC, a M2GC is like wishing Pegasus was real.
We are already lucky the M2 and its higher performance variant was green lit for production. Especially the M2 Hi-PO model.
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WRONG. DEAD WRONG. COULD NOT BE MORE WRONG.
you just said it yourself...
BMW is about making money... and there is a market for an M2 GC... and their competitors are making models that are selling like hot cakes... which means that BMW will do what they can to ... ( yes... make more money!) and make a 2 series Gran Coupe.
When it comes to " making a new body" .. that's the easy part now..
have you noticed that's why BMW can make things like 5 Series GT... 3 series GT.. 2 series tourer.. 4 series gran coupe.. lots of models on one platform!
It doesn't cost a lot to make a new body on the new platform .. So... Since you are so confident the bean counters will rule.. are you now going to say that those bean counters will intentionally NOT find another reason to make another chassis and another way to make more MONEY ?
the 2017 1 series will be one thing... however.... that does not mean that a 2017 2 Series sedan couldn't be an entirely different thing...