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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Schwepps" data-source="post: 160510" data-attributes="member: 3592">KL2DC, your replies to posts are as awesome as Liepzig. You have a message for each post, stay on message, and weigh in with deep facts. I'm quite sure you’re in marketing communications <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Thanks for the article on the BMW AG philosophy shift. Interesting direction they’re contemplating, but I hope they do it well and don’t dilute their Luxury Performance aura. "The Idea Class" space is already occupied by Volvo and Saab. If they execute it better or differently than the Swedes, well and good. Otherwise they risk copycatting them.I suppose they need to do something different in the US to capture share and maintain their high growth, but Volvo is "soccer mum", and you can’t or don’t want to beat Saab in the hippy stakes. It's only Infiniti and Acura they need to fend off and I would like to think they can do that with a dab of the accelerator and an exhaust roar. I also hope they're not seriously going for Baby Boomers with anything other than the 7s and Xs. I mean, Baby Boomers are pushing sixty! George Bush and Tony Blair are Baby Boomers. That's Lexus-land! Please keep appealing to the X and Y gen! Anyway, back to the farm, I’ll not be posting for a while, although I’ll come back and check for the latest news once in a while. I thank all of you for the education you've given me while I played out my urge to get the cheque book out. Nothing like a spirited debate with peers to come to a decision. I’ve decided to wait for anything up to a year to see if the packages available here are better.My aspirational target is still a 325, but at the moment what’s available isn’t strong enough to suck out the cheque book. The CBU is a good buy at the current price but it's tainted by the 6 month sunbath in Port Kelang. (But if they dropped another 40K....)  The CKD is found wanting for 289k. (But if they included iDrive and 18” staggered 161s shod with 255s....) I live in hope for the 2nd CKD batch.Sorry BMWM and AB for being so particular, but this would be MY car. The wife can have the E260, and the driver can do the Sri Cempaka run with the XC90. The 3 would be this aging X gen-er’s last sizzle before settling quietly into a Lexus <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />It’s been fun y’all! Talk to you again, if and when I have my 325.</blockquote>

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