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Originally Posted by Cortexiphan
What the lol? You wrote so many words, there's nothing actually opposing what I wrote. And if BMW runs the show with SUVs, which are the best selling cars of the era, why did you lol at the beginning?
First of all, E46 and E39 were great, but so were the A4 quattros and C class of the era.
G80 and G30 are better than these, relative to the competition of their respective era.
As an example, Top Gear compared RS4 and E46M3 and picked RS4.
Is there ANY serious publication right now, where RS4/5 beats G80/82? Absolutely Impossible.
BMW has never been this comfortably ahead of Benz and Audi in terms of sales and critical acclaim as they are now, including early 2000s with E46 and E39. This is factual. Does't feel intuitive, because human nature always remember the past to be better. But this is the reality.
And sure, Audi and Benz are focusing on EVs, but clearly BMW is doing that too. The only difference is that they didn't fully abandon ICE models. BMWs EV models are: ix, ix1, ix3, i4, i5, i7. They don't have less models than Audi and Benz, they sell more than Audi and Benz, and maybe except ix3 they also beat the competition in most comparison tests. (The best selling EV among these 3 German brands is the BMW i4.)
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Audi is in the toilet, and MB is so far out in left field they’ll (dare I say it?) never be a serious competitor again in the “it’s fun” category. Very official category. In some ways things haven’t changed if you take the 2000 and 2020s. In between those eras MB made serious inroads but Audi has always played third fiddle with heavy, understeering cars. That RS4 was really special though and likely the exception particularly in manual form. But it had AWD. And it was heavy relatively.