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      02-02-2016, 01:14 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by mik821 View Post
The comment was more about price vs. quality, or price vs. what you get. It became normal to spend around 50k for a 4 cylinder 3 Series. My personal opinion is that it is abnormal, and hopefully some feel the same. I guess in the end what bothers me more is BMW's recent prices hikes rather than the occasional headaches given by poor reliability.
Maybe M2 pricing is a glimpse at BMW's future plans.
Lots of features that are (expensive) options on the M235i are standard.
A fully-loaded M2 and fully-loaded M235i are within $10 of each other's price.

I think people's negative reaction to base price hikes is stronger than their positive reaction to more standard equipment being bundled in at the base price. I wonder how you plug those positive/negative reaction values into a spreadsheet.
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