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Originally Posted by hinckley
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Originally Posted by ///M4ster Yoda
The difference between Porsche and BMW is that Porsche is using the revenue from SUV sales to continue to make amazing sports cars. Their prestige and heritage will live on. BMW could have gone this route but instead decided to be the German Toyota. They are throwing away all the prestige and heritage and it didn't have to go that way. BMW could have continued to make proper sporty cars along with their other offering.
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I love Porsche and have been driving 911s for over 20 years, but it's tough to compare the two brands. Porsche, owned by VW, shares its SUV platforms - and costs - across several brands. They can then take presumably higher profits and build very high priced, niche sports cars. BMW is at a great disadvantage being a stand alone company with few cost sharing opportunities. IDK - instead of the German Toyota model, maybe they'd be better off shedding all the low end models and focusing on a handful of higher end, M Performance and M cars.  |
Yes. They also made mistakes as others have mentioned with their horrible looking GT cars that nobody purchased. I think that you are onto something. They should have stayed a higher end "premium" brand. Instead we get the FWD ///M235 monstrosity. Why compete with Honda? Your BMW
