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Originally Posted by MisterF80M3
Why not? Toyota is still the largest automaker in the world. They could have easily developed their own sportscar without BMW's help.
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That's not how things work.
The program still needs to be profitable and sell in numbers to support that.
Here in the US, the Supra at $80K+ would run into the same exact problem they had last time, the Corvette and the 911. They kill off almost everything in their price range. You have to dance around the fringes. They wanted no parts of dumping $500 million into a niche car that wouldn't sell over 30K units in a cycle and lose money. BMW probably was thinking in a similar fashion.
At a time when profit margins are tightening and companies are having to dump billions into EV, sportscars make no sense especially not without platform sharing.