Sadly, can you blame BMW (or Audi or whatever)?
It seems to be what most people want today- most don't give a crap about what you mentioned- they don't see a car as an amazing piece of engineering and ingenuity - they see it as an appliance that must be dealt with to get from point A to point B. Road feeling? what is that? Does it interface with my iPod? That's important.
BMW is a business - and businesses are in the business of making profit. Unfortunately people like you (and the rest of us in this forum and others) are the weirdo minority. We aren't a big enough market share anymore.
Even more reason for us to hang onto these cars and not let them go!!
