Very please that BMW are going over to low rent FWD they might end up with some $18 billion losses like Opel made in the last decade selling low rent junk, the best news l have heard in ages.
Low volume quality car producer RWD BMW 3 Series outsold every car in the low rent mass produced Opel's line-up except the Corsa in 2013
, all the top quality producers BMW & Mercedes Benz RWD cars pissed outsold Insignia & Mondeo between in Europe last year
in the past Ford's RWD Cortina/Taunus was No1 best selling car in Europe when it was offered as a "CHOICE" to day the bean counters won't allow them to do this at Opel they are going for the £1 poundland $1 Euroland low rent building cars on the cheap and losing $18 billions
in the process by using expensive German labor to built them with.
AWD is best in a few markets if you live on a Scandinavian covered mountain top might be worth thinking about is the best car, but in places like the UK which is GM's biggest market you only get small snow flurry 1 week a year it's a total waste of money, best drivetrain for the UK better than AWD would be RWD for 358 days a year.
UK biggest market in EU for GM.
358 days a year RWD is the best drive
7 days a year AWD is the best drive (for the odd bit of snow)
0 days a year FWD is the best drive
You must have not grown up yet?
Nurburgring when will a crap cheap n' nasty to sling together Avis/Hertz special Opel FWD car crack into the top 100 places, the answer never!!
BMW & Mercedes Benz don't cut corners with low rent crap FWD, they then can charge premium prices for great drives, let hope BMW drivers downsize in to small FWD cars and they start losing $18 billions in Europe like Opel will be a big plus to start seeing the German quality car makers start losing huge money
in stead of making huge profits on RWD
, sadly it will wipe out wipe out both Ford both Opel in Europe in the process
which l don't like one
, as they have killed they domineer have wiped out the Mondeo/Insignia market
, now they will wipe out take over the low rent market with clever pricing, but a the end of the day they will start making huge losses using the worlds most expensive labor in Germany
be like Opel but kill them off with a BMW badge
.
We need more cars built of the crap Delta FWD Astra - Ion - Cobolt - G5 platform that drags General Motors through mud where poor ole Mary Barra has had to spend most of her time in her new job has been in courts defending crappy FWD cars, that will cost GM billions in compensation claims, those FWD Delta cars that killed 2 brands & GM customers off. On top of that GM Opel Money-Pit has cost GM $18 billions in losses in Europe in the last decade.
Personally it does not bother me if Opel make 100 different model FWD cars to sell at $18 billion losses in Europe if the Mugs in the USA want to keep shipping boatloads of cash of to keep a bunch of losers like Opel going (send another $5.2 billions on a barge earlier this year to Opel money pit) only they are to blame if they prop up Avis/Hertz bound FWD crap, what does bother me is their is no fuel efficient RWD choice not even 1 model in the Opel line-up that can create big revenue for GM, that can take the Battle to cars like BMW 320D 80 MPG 150 MPH magic that is the biggest most profit making car in Europe at this moment in time, something that don't have in the Opel line-up, and the RWD BMW 3 Series outsold every mass produced car in the Opel line-up except the Corsa last year.