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Originally Posted by Sword
It's got to be a RWD Turbo 6 and it's got to get over the CLA45s power rating
They've also got to consider price carefully. The 1M (here) was priced about 10% more than the CLA45 is currently selling and that was a couple of years back. BMW will want a premium for the M2 but I doubt people will pay much more than they did for the 1M even if they tick the boxes I mentioned earlier
Anything less and BMW will continue to hemorrhage customers to Merc. They've really got BMW by the short and curlys atm
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BMW outsold MB globally for the first time last year and has led them all of this year.
The 1M sold out in the US nearly instantaneously and sold out globally even with an additional production run over the initial 2500.
The CLA45 is a fwd based four cylinder with Haldex.
I think BMW has very nearly covered the A45/CLA45 with the Mx35i cars, so that leaves the M2 to be a different animal. A light weight, better balanced car appeals to me more than an M235.5 or an M4 Lite.