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Originally Posted by AKRAPOVICOWNS
What if you really liked a specific brand of ice cream, that one that uses the right ingredients and used to make your favorite ice cream, and that brand made its name by selling that specific flavor of ice cream that no one else could replicate. Ok, now, it has a lot of new flavors..thats nice, for each his own, but they just dont make the ice cream that you used to love anymore, the flavor that made the company name, made its heritage of ice cream making.
Thats what im talking about..i dont care if BMW keeps making more models to expand its line of flavors..as long as they keep using the ingredient that made them what they are known for, and that one flavor that everyone loved..but it seems that they dont really care anymore about using the best ingredients to produce their ice cream, nor make the best flavor that they used to make.
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ah, that's a good analogy. I'm all for model proliferation and cost-cutting, modular platform sharing, etc... it's how the business is and if you can find the car YOU like, who cares if BMW is also making several other models you DONT like.
but, the recent criticism of modern F-series BMWs has been that the very virtues they were once known for have slowly been diluted to the point where the competition has caught up (or passed them depending on which reviews you read). What we're talking about is direct steering connection to the road, that perfect compliant yet firm BASE suspension, linear predictability during cornering.
I don't think the two issue have to be related (proliferation of lineup + loss of core handling/steering characteristics), but it does seem like it's been heading that way.