BMW G30 520i replaces 1.6 turbo engine in Turkey, the price exceeds $107229.64

Although the BMW G30 520i is no longer on sale in my country, it was once the cheapest 5 Series in the Chinese market. Recently, this car was also officially launched in the Turkish market and replaced the original 2.0L turbo engine with a 1.6L turbo engine. But its price is over 95,000 Euros (approximately $107229.64.

In fact, in other international markets, the G30 5 Series does not provide a 1.6L turbo engine. Instead, the entire car series uses a 2.0L turbo engine, but uses high and low power output for differentiation. However, the original manufacturer in the Turkish market recently A very special 520i was launched. This is because the new car uses a 1.6l turbo engine that BMW itself has already stopped using. It has a maximum horsepower of 168 Hp and a peak torque of 250 Nm. Compared with the previous version sold in my country (184 Hp/290 Nm) is much weaker, but its 0-100 acceleration still has a score of 8.3 seconds.

As for why the Turkish market is so "special", it is because their car prices are very high, so automakers can only reduce the price of new cars with engines with small displacements. Let’s take the previous 520i Luxury sold in my country as an example. The price is $77942.43 (including sales tax price). As for Turkey, their 520i 1.6T sells for more than 95,000 Euros. This shows that our country New cars on the market are actually not that expensive!

According to data, my country’s per capita income in 2020 is 10,300 U.S. dollars, and Turkey’s per capita income in 2020 is 9,410 U.S. dollars , so it can be seen that the car prices in the two places are really different. 

In fact, BMW is not the only car manufacturer to do this, because different car manufacturers are forced to adopt some special practices in order to meet the regulations of some countries. For example, the Civic sold by Honda in Singapore uses low-power The 1.5L turbo engine has a large displacement but the horsepower is only 129 PS. This is because Honda in order to meet Singapore’s regulations: In 2013, the Singapore government revised its car ownership policy. The current car ownership certificate has five groups. , Group A requires that the engine's displacement is less than 1,600 cc, and the horsepower is less than 97 kw or 131.8 PS. The reason why Civic has to meet the standards of this group is because the price of the car ownership certificate in this group is the lowest.

Fortunately, there are not so many similar regulations in the Chinese market. Therefore, although the car prices in the Chinese market are not cheap, our car prices are not the most expensive, and we can get good equipment. Do you agree?