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Originally Posted by Viffermike
Compared wth the higher models in a marque's lineup, no: entry-level cars from that same marque won't have the same or similar feature set. But in the U.S. market, I would expect a luxury marque such as BMW to have certain common features across the lineup that many cars below the marque also have as common features - as well as some (auto climate control, for instance) that aren't common among below the marque.
Besides, my second reason - that most, if not all, 2-series competitors have this particular feature - trumps your reasoning. Daytime gauge backlighting is now beyond common among both luxury and non-luxury marques. The 2-series' fuel gauge partially functions this way as part of the info display - it would not have cost BMW much at all to design the primary dial gauges to have equivalent always-on daytime white backlighting.
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Totally agree with your reasoning, I'm just saying I don't feel BMW is very feature heavy in its entry level models, compared to other brands (lux brands included), which is why it doesn't surprise they are missing things like this.