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Originally Posted by Penguino
Is this going to be the tendency with X-vehicles from now on or even BMW overall? The N20 as base or the B58 option for a $12k+ premium? No more X35i option?
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Yes. The *35i moniker is being retired from 6 cylinder duty completely. In the near future it will resurface with an M added for UKL M performance vehicles with the soon-to-be unveiled high output B48 relative.
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I think this two options segregates the trims far too much.
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I don't necessarily disagree, but the market has spoken. Audi has done the same thing with the gap between their A* and S* midrange products, and Mercedes now has *300 and *43. There is no more tweener 6 cylinder model. What they could do is offer a 300hp-ish four cylinder option to fill the gap, but so far that hasn't happened (well, Volvo is all four cylinder now - so they are actually doing this). In the future we may see entries like that from the Germans, but for right now you get the I4, the 6 cylinder, and then the super-duper 6 cylinder (V8 in Mercedes case, for now) from M/AMG/Audi-Sport-RS.