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Originally Posted by Germanauto
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Originally Posted by Red Bread
My Mexican car laughs at you xenophobes. How many of you are driving South African assembled F3x's without even knowing it?
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It has nothing to do with xenophobia.
It's not unreasonable to ask for a high end flagship performance car to be produced in its home country. That's part of the appeal.
Merc's AMG division has handmade engines with a plaque by the guy who assembled it. You can only get such attention to detail in Germany!
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Wait, flagship and M2? What did I miss? 1ers weren't made in Munich, neither are the current 2ers. So what really changes if it goes to MX?
Like I said earlier, many 3ers were made elsewhere. Hell, my M Coupe was made in South Carolina and I liked it more than many Munich made BMW's, a Leipzig one, a Regensberg one and a Rosslyn one.
Country of manufacture doesn't really matter to me. If the car is well engineered, then it will likely be a good car.
Maybe it's because I worked in Germany for a German company, but I don't see why you think a German union employee is going to wield a torque wrench with any sort of magic skill set than a similarly trained employee in another country is going to. And yes, what you described is xenophobia to a t.