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Originally Posted by SeanWRT
However, if you cost break down the CS package, it is a value package to the M2 Competition which is a good value to start with.
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Who hates the M2 CS?
1) M2C/M2OG owners trying to justify their purchases.
2) The buyers that want to pay less.
3) The buyers that thought/wish they can afford it.
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The thing is that the M2 Competition changes hands for less than MSRP. Over here discounts are offered up to 15% (and even more). Any such discounts will be way harder to obtain for the M2 CS. In the real world the price gap between M2 Competition market price and M2 CS market price is
wider than what's mentioned as MSRP on paper.
And so quite understandably that begs the question whether that 50% price gap is worth its salt: for some it will, for some it won't (especially if you take the artificially generated and actually-not-so-limited exclusivity + manual transmission offering, out of the equation). If only the N55 370hp base M2 had existed right now: yes. But this is not the case: there is the S55 410hp M2 Competition. And that ain't no slouch either.
Furthermore, there is market saturation (apart from macro-economics of the worsening car sales market): base M2, M2 LCI and M2C: if the F87 appealed to a potential customer, there is a good chance that he got one, or that (s)he is looking into the option of getting one. Most won't budge because of the M2 CS (for some also because of lease commitments).
So don't generalize/stereorype this as 'sour grapes' criticism.