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Originally Posted by clbmw
I'm not sure when in a globalised, consumer led, free trading, liberal economic world we began to so many restrictions on which cars we can buy because the manufacturers claim we don't want to buy it.
It beggars belief
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Some of it is simple cost based commercial decisions.
Type approval costs, and support of a particular product have to be amortised across the production/sales. Unless of course BMW are prepared to sale a particular model at a loss.
For example, RHD conversion for UK sales may just not be worth the production development and hassle, if sales don't support the costs.
xDrive for the UK market, on earlier saloon/touring platforms, required some major revisions to fit the hardware. Therefore we never got them, even though there was a demand. Once the platforms were developed with RHD conversion as part of the brief, we could have product.
There may be technical restrictions on the M550d, the extra turbos may be interfering with the steering mechanism.