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      05-14-2010, 02:03 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by cosmos515 View Post
BMW has the slimmest profit margins with anything less then the V8's here in the States. They will not bring over any small displacement diesel engines because they will have to lower the MSRP and make even less money. My money is on the biggest displacement diesel engines so BMW can still have nice profit margins. So I say the 35d.
I'm not saying your claim is not true, but where did you get the information? Are you sure it's accurate that they don't have good profit margins on the higher models? I do agree the 5, 6, 7, X5, X6 and M models probably have much higher profit margins, but don't know about the particular engines.
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