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Originally Posted by Wesman

Its the same damn thing. They just upgraded the seats, gauges, and changed the steering wheel. The Evo is the same damn basic car, just 3 times the price. Not to mention the crappy SunPro gauges below the HVAC look like they came from a 1980's kit car

BMW 3 Series:



BMW M3 Series:


I could do the same exercise for Audi/Audi RS, or Mercedes C/C63 AMG, but I think you get the point...

Same car, one's basic model, the other a performance model. Constructors SHARE components between different cars, for reasons of keeping the costs down. If every model on every single car had a bespoke dashboard... There wouldn't be many affordable cars around.

Besides, some constructors did it the other way round too... I give you as an example the Lotus Omega/Carlton. Had a dashboard from a standard Opel Omega 1.8 GL, but a twin turbo 3.6 and Corvette gearbox. And it was sold for about 4 times the price of a basic Omega at the time... (beginning of the 90's)