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Originally Posted by SCOTT26
BMW took these models and transmissions away because no one was buying them.
No one wanted the E61 and E91. And there is not much interest in the F31 in the USA also. The 5er GT sold three years worth of E61 in one year.
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5GT is offered with two different engines and both RWD and AWD. E61 was only offered as 530xi and then 535xi. 5400 530xi's and 4450 535xi's were made. Pre-LCI F07 (I'm too lazy to look up the LCI numbers, they don't change anything anyway) made 2450 550iGT, 3400 535iGT, 1400 550xiGT, and 3000 535xiGT. That is, 10250 5GTs in four years of production vs. 9850 E61s in five years of production, and who knows how many extra sales would there be if we could buy 550iT here?
So, please tell me again, which year was that, when 5GT was selling at 3x E61 rate? (Desperately need a Willie Wonka GIF here.)
Oh, and by the way, the customers, who couldn't buy F11, didn't go to F07. They went to E-classe and A6 instead. F07 just took sales from F01/02. Even BMW execs acknowledge the mistake. Look around - no one's drinking that 2009 kool-aid anymore.
As for F31, in less than a year of production BMW has made more than 3000 of them for the NA market. Do your BMW NA bosses consider this to be a sales failure these days?