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Originally Posted by CSBM5
It will come...guaranteed. Audi is going to eat up the small sedan market with the new A3/S3/RS3 and Mercedes with the CLA/AMG/etc; BMW will have to have a 4-door in this size car (i.e. smaller than an E39 5-series which is what the F30 essentially is).
Just look at the 1st month of sales for the new A3 (which didn't even have a full month on the market). Audi year over year sales of the A4 were up about 1% in April *plus* they sold almost as many of the new A3; hence, they almost doubled their market share in the small sedan category.
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Following up my earlier guess that BMW has grossly underestimated the demand for a car smaller than the F30 (not price dependent), the results to date for the Audi A3 are stellar. There is clearly strong demand for a reasonably sized sedan (given the A4 is a large car now like the F30), so if the powers that be at BMW aren't burning the midnight oil to create a 2-series "grand coupe" and an M2 version, they will be soon.
Couple of links:
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/04/a...-toyota-sales/
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/10/a...-mercedes-cla/
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