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      01-11-2019, 03:16 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by DanG View Post
Silly that BMW counts the X3 M40 as it’s highest selling M car. In reality, it looks like the M2 should have had that title. MPA cars are not really M cars in my opinion.
it's the only way they can appear to be on the same page/in the same ballpark of 100K performance model vehicles along with Mercedes in their print.


BMW M (all) : 102,780 units (+27.2% from 2017) Less- (19,670) X3m40 units = 83,110


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Originally Posted by Law View Post
My post wasn't made to prove anything, rather it was written to provided comparative understanding and analysis across two rival brands.

It's actually rather simple and not really debatable.
BMW themselves don't consider M Performance Automobiles to be M Cars (though it seems they do consider them to be M products in statistics compilation).

If they did, BMW would file them under M Models/M Cars, but it's clear this is not the case.

Mercedes, on the other hand, does consider its _43 and _53 models to be AMG cars, evident by their own categorization and filing of _43 and _53 models under the same umbrella.

BMW, by contrast, made a conscientious effort to differentiate categorization and nomenclature of M Models and M Performance Automobiles (there are also numerous press releases and interviews with M Execs detailing this), no matter how blurred the lines may seem.
Conveniently.. nothing at BMW ever is a true tradition any more.

https://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1553566

it appears that " M performance" models are considered to be part of the M lineup in some ways..

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