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Originally Posted by SCOTT26
Such a car is no longer attainable...Call it progress.
What can be done is attempt replicate the driving style which is what the 1M sets out to do.
Even if such a car exists the US Market would not want a stripped out back to basics car nor would they sacrifice luxuries and comfort.
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I don't know whether that's true or not, but I will say that there have been a number of cars that the "experts" said could not succeed in the US market that seemed to do just fine once a single decent car of its variety was offered for sale. Typically that single car is followed by multiple cars from other manufacturers. For example, it was thought that the US market had no interest in a small 2-seat convertible of the old British style until the Mazda folks took a chance. That was followed by the Honda S2000 and a hastily put together car from an unmentioned German manufacturer that mated engines from current cars with a chassis from one that wasn't so current ***cough*** Z3. Another example was the thinking that the US had no interst in small AWD turbo sedans, Then Subaru decided to finally import their WRX and they couldn't keep them in the showrooms. Soon, we had the STI version, Mitsubishi was importing EVO's, and Dodge was selling SRT-4's (though admittedly without the AWD). None of these cars were supposed to sell in the US. What generation of the Z3/4 is BMW on again?