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Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour
One day, I believe that BMW will make a mid-engine convertible roadster and give the Boxster a real run for its money.
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Won't happen at our price point. BMW are big into platform based engineering and it pays off handsomely for them (Z4, 3-series, and X3 share a platform, X5, previous generation 5-series and Z8 share a platform).
If they build a mid-engine car it wil require a new platform and the economics won't cover the development costs except if the car is priced in Ferrari territory - the M6 is already a six-figure car.
That's not to say that they couldn't, they just won't. Doesn't make any business sense to them.