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      10-04-2020, 09:24 PM   #323
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Originally Posted by JCZ5 View Post
I can't wait for the day manufactures will allow the "lesser" of the model line to have features of its bigger siblings. I mean, price it to its bigger siblings for all I care. I think there is still a market for these niche products. If you have to, you can limit its HP, just so manufacturers can still say the bigger brother is more powerful blah blah.

Honestly, I think Porsche is beginning to do that with the 718 T. You can finally get Porsche' CF buckets without having to go to the GTS of GT4 variants.
It’s definitely frustrating - some people just enjoy smaller / lighter / less complicated options, but with the CF seats, or Burmester stereo perhaps. Having had a 981 CS and now a 981 BGTS, I love(d) both variants, but there’s a noticeable difference in the options that were available new vs. the 991 variants.

To your point, this appears to be changing, albeit slowly, on the Porsche front. BMW appears to be hard headed on this front...
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