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BMW manufacturing their own CFRP is looking more and more like a great acquisition. Audi has VAG to help keep costs down, BMW has nothing close to that. So now they're going to platform share internally which would be a problem if the didn't have their own CFRP to play with. Size will still be something BMW will need to figure out but at least they can control the weight factor without increasing costs.
It's easy to look at other manufacturers and ask why BMW can't or isn't doing that, but forget they're independent which is a challenge in itself. It's definitely a slow process but in a few years when BMW has economies of scale, we might start to see the "old" BMW again.
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