BMW back in dtm in 2012

They have been talking about this for a while, pending decisions on the rule and regs for 2012. I assume this means they have decided on them. BMW wanted the DTM to fall more in line with production car specs than the sillouhette style they run now.

As long as they keep some of the mentalness Im good! Opel have also said they are interested with the Insignia, and I also heard a rumour Nissan might join the fight, although I dont know what with (DTM regs are for a 4 door saloon).

Opel, Audi, Mercedes, BMW and Nissan in 2012 would be epic!
 
How about the R34 4door?

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+ I'm surprised VW ain't getting in with a passat of some sort :)
 
Ryan-3 said:
How about the R34 4door?
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Waaay too old.

I'd have thought maybe more an Infinity G/M (basically Nissans current version of the Skyline, kind of).

Remember every version of skyline, R32, 33, 34 etc has had a 4 door saloon varient. A 4 door Skyline whilst a rare sight over here is the norm in Japan. We don't really get them here as who would bother importing a slow non turbo 4 door Skyling :p

After all it was a similar model over there to say a Sierra over here :)
 
Memphis said:
Do you honestly not get the ****-hole the world's economy dived head first into? :confused:
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The major automakers can afford it, most of the issues they faced is due to them having more factories than orders now, because they all felt that everything will carry on growing.
As for the world economy, the dive the economy had has not even been big enough to cause any serious change to how the whole thing works.

MrLOL said:
Guessing that the E90 M3 saloon is going to get the GT4/2 treatment (guessing more likely to be given GT2-esque given the nature of DTM)
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More likely BMW will do something that can then be merged towards GT500 as the rules are going to merge in a few years.
 
Ryan-3 said:
Adds more cars which I find more exciting, and VW might as well as they've got all of the knowledge & money to do so.
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...which they're using to enter the Audi brand, which dare I say, will reap much greater rewards from being in a saloon racing series than VW would. You'll sell more S-Line A4s off the back of DTM than you will Passat Sports.

No doubt were it hatchback racing, VW may be more tempted to enter the Golf GTI over and above the S3, as that would probably benefit more, as the image (and thus market) of the Golf GTI is more suited to being promoted in a race series.

All that adding the Passat would achieve is a vastly inflated cost for VW and a splitting of resources. Much better to have one team with the best resources, doing well, than to have two teams with split resources, doing averagely. Especially when you're up against Mercedes and BMW.
 
Kenai said:
...which they're using to enter the Audi brand, which dare I say, will reap much greater rewards from being in a saloon racing series than VW would.
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There once was a time when car companies would enter sporting series just because they were car companies and it was what car companies did ... they built and competed cars for the fun of it.
The top automakers can easily afford to compete in racing series.
 
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