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Originally Posted by hcourville
People in North America are "brain washed" over AWD. We will buy an AWD drive car here when they need it for about 4 or 5 bad snowy days in an entire year. Or consumers will buy a truck or SUV so they can go camping in the summer. Then they sacrifice for AWD the other 300 days of the year. The mentality here really suprises me sometimes.
And it's not BMW fault. They're just following the money.
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I drive my M3 all winter and although it's a little slow getting going, it's fine all year. That being said, my wife has the 535xiT and that is a BLAST to drive in the winter (and summer). I would be the first to welcome the idea of a M5 with x-drive. Summer performance isn't impacted significantly (except to the RWD purists) and the winter gets a whole lot more fun!
Perhaps most of the "brainwashing" is that die-hards that believe RWD cars are the only form of sports car...?
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