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fwd junk like the TaunusYes, the front-wheel drive nonsense will never catch on.
Stick with leaf springs and a beam back axle with a diff.
As we know BMW and Mercedes were crippled by their adherence to rwd and the fortunes of Ford and GM Europe took off after the introduction of Mondeo and Vectra etc.Oh wait.While wasn’t the Zodiac Mk4 and the Mk1 Granada both Essex made products with BMW type semi trailing IRS which were a match for the BMW E3 at the price.