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The US market should be thanking BMW for all the high mileage 4 bangers they can sell. With the new CAFE standards coming, BMW needs to raise the fleet average or we will all be paying more for any BMW.
Most People will never know what engine is in their car. Give it enough bottom end torque and the average buyer will think it has a V8 and be perfectly happy. The average buyer doesn't want to hear the engine and will not rev it hard enough to ever hear it. They'll just feel the acceleration from the stop light or the ability to merge on the freeway.
I can see the conversation with the CA:
Buyer: What engine does it have?
CA: The engine has almost 270 ft/lbs of torque gets to 60 MPH in about 6 seconds and gets 32 MPG.
Buyer: Oh, that's good.
Last edited by 1M Fan; 09-25-2011 at 06:28 PM..
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