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Originally Posted by Imhotep Evil I never said they shouldn't improve their driving dynamics.
The fact is that some of them would really like the "Ultimate Driving Machine" moniker (beat BMW at its own game).
Now I've read some reporter who said what Lexus really needed was a 3 series (clone).
Now can you imagine that, a couple of decades ago:
"Look BMW you need to forget this 2002/3 series/Ultimate driving machine crap and build a Mercedes Benz (clone), cause that's the way you're gonna succed".
Now that one of the most idiotic things I've heard.
And Lexus and the rest are irelevant (globaly). Only the C klasse and A4 camed close to the 3 series. But people bought them for diferent reasons. Now this sporty stuff thing is also due to the fact that (some) reporters said something like "sure it has all this strenths, but it doesn't drive like BMW (3 series)" or "the BMW is (still) the utimate driving machine".
Just look at the M3 CSL vs. GT3 (or Cayman S vs. Z4 M C), they do basicaly the same thing but in (very) diferent ways. Both drivers cars , both great when it comes to driving dynamics, yet (so) diferent.
Now if they do things like that I OK with that. |
I don't want Mercedes or Audi to be the "ultimate driving machine" or even have that status. Clear? All I want (and they do to likely) is for them to improve their dynamics enough to make them a viable alternative, while providing the things they have that already differ them from BMW. Clear?
Then again so what if they wanted to beat BMW at their own game, its called competition. There is nothing so sacred to the point which no other carmaker should attempt to match or beat BMW at their own game. I personally don't MB or Audi wants to do that. Can't speak for Lexus since I usually detest them and they have a rep for being an outright copycat.
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02-08-2006, 02:20 AM
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