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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. |
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A smaller company could do this no doubt more flexibly but I assume BMW have calculators to hand to figure what is best financially for them. Also if tourings do make it over there then it cuts more into the SUV market which is clearly a bigger stake for Usa since they make them there.
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Other members have clearly stated in other topics, that wagons are not in fashion in the US. If the SUV is the vehicle of choice, and wagons are a very small market, I guess BMW NA won't opt to import and support wagon sales. |
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04-28-2017, 11:30 AM | #93 |
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No Touring models of any kind will be sold in the US. the company focuses on Suv's for this market...
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Looking at the G30/31, my choice would be a RWD 540i touring. But in BMW's wisdom, BMW UK is only importing the xDrive version. I sense sales are not expected to be high, (535i sales were small), BMW have opted for only one 540i chassis type. So if I fancy a 540i, it will have to be xDrive. |
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I think you can only believe him if you can place an order ;-)
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I'll put down a deposit and see what happens. : ) stay tuned.
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I've just been to my local dealership to test drive a 530D Xdrive to see if the size isn't too much ( I'm currently in an M4) and he said that he received a bulletin on Saturday confirming the M550D will be coming to the UK. I've told him I'm definitely interested and to keep me up to date as further info becomes available.
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Sorry to be breaking this, seems to back up what dealer said today... Same old excuses. Lame |
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