Quote Originally Posted by DinanM3atl
It is not really a fair comparison.

Someone shopping for a 20-30K General Motors product in a GOOD economy probaby lost their job and is HURTING BAD! Really bad.

Someone shopping for a 70-100K AMG or BMW M was also shopping for it before this bad economy and in reality probably has not lost his job and has financial security if they did.

Again, BMW sales globally are down ~25%. M sales I bet are down even more than that.
True but we have to look outside of America. We are not the worlds only consumers. In Europe, for the most part, the economy is not the best but it's still thriving and GM is struggling despite what they are trying to sell and they are a direct competitor in the small relatively inexpensive (20-35k) car market. BMW's U.S sales are down but they are not experiencing global failure because of it . GM is selling Vauxhauls (sp?) and what not that are perfectly compatible to BMW 316-318-320i's which are like Camry's over there.