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Originally Posted by 10"
These days a Toyota RAV4 starts at around $30k and an X1 around $38k. Honda CRV around $32k
The difference in prices is long gone..
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The difference between $30k and $38k is a whopping 27%. $8k is HUGE for people who're budget shopping a $30k vehicle. And this, keep in mind, is regarding an X1 which was BMWs attempt to target downstream shoppers on the fence between luxury vs. non-luxury brands. So to use the base MSRP for the cheapest model in the entire lineup is a misrepresentation to begin with.
This discussion comes up time and time again - you only need to look at numbers to understand that BMWs are still priced out of reach (or at least priced out of reasonable value placed on a vehicle) for most people. If they weren't, BMWs would be selling like Toyotas.... and yet they're not...
So yes... BMWs for people living outside of our Bimmerpost bubble are still status symbols for the majority of the population, and there's a good reason for that.