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Originally Posted by T Bone
BMW is reducing R&D and trying to get into the once profitable truck market. They are directly taking money away from car development to invest in trucks.
GM spent next to nothing on key cars like the Cavalier for a couple of generations while the Corolla and Civic continued to evolve. They focused on SUVs.
BMW is doing exactly the same time. Placing precious R&D dollars and smart engineers on trucks.
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I don't know where you're getting the figures from that the financing for their previous M division was cut for the development of the M trucks.
BMW is far from becoming like GM, they do not have multiple car companies with the same cars re badged at different price tags.
I'm just curious to see where you heard, or know, that they have cut spending on their road cars and instead decided to concentrate on their trucks. What they're doing is healthy and needed. Mercedes has their AMG line of SUV's as well as Porsche has it's performance oriented Cayenne.