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Originally Posted by Alpina_B3_Lux
BMW does not have the expertise for the former, and the latter is currently cost-prohibitive for all but supercars. That may very well change (apparently BMW will move there with the next 7 series), but we are still far from a point where you can use carbon fiber for models that are mass-market. There would not even exist factories that could cope with this demand today.
Alpina_B3_Lux
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You have obviously missed the entire BMWi program thus far- the deal with BMW/SGL and Toyota and BMW collaberation with Boeing. BMW has the ability to produce CF more economically- at greater scale and has the infrastructure. We are 9 months or so from CF mass produced (not super cars) entering the world. Times are changing and the next 7 will be the first non BMWi product from BMW to be produced mainly from CF.