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Originally Posted by Oliver1
American manufacturers do it all the time. Same model, just different engine, 4/6 cylinder, gas/diesel, all under one model designation. My guess is that they are saving the S55 for a GTS variant in a couple of years.
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Yeah, but come on... you said it yourself, American manufacturers. The whole point is that a German manufacturer bringing a car into the US has to decide whether it is cost effective for them to import the car. An American manufacturer has an immediate upper hand in terms of cost. BMW does the same thing in Europe, as well as plenty of European brands that don't sell in the US market at all. There are diesel variants of just about every BMW, sometimes two diesel engines. Here we get like five diesel models.