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Originally Posted by ScottAndrew
The 2 GC (or 1/2 sedan for China, India, Mexico, Thailand etc) on the UKL platform will fix that. However it's not really a car for the US. Perhaps there would be some interest in it in highly urbanised areas; but a conventional gas-powered 2 series with a 3 or 4-pot engine and 1.5 to 2 litres costing $40-45,000 will go down like a lead balloon.
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Agreed, however, if they are able to reduce some of the material components to and build to a price point without sacrificing premium content (needs to have real leather, power seats, sunroof, and non-halogen headlights standard) and keep the pricing competitive with the A3 (i.e. around $30-$35K USD), then I believe they would really have a hit on their hands. The 1.8T A3 sold like wild fire here in the States and no one seemed to care that it was the same engine as in a base Golf VII. Do the same with a 1 series and use the 1.0T out of the 118i, should make for a great seller.