Business is lower grade - Professional is higher grade.
"Dean Dark" <ddrake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 01 May 2008 12:19:07 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
> <dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>In article <vt6f14510k90r1aovqj34usc20pdh46jml@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Dean Dark <ddrake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> I believe that in US BMW-speak, "business" means "basic," as in the
>>> very basic "business coupe" versions of cars sold in the US 50 years
>>> or more ago. Maybe it kind of translates to "poverty model" in the
>>> YooKay, or "stripper model" in current YooEss parlance.
>>
>>It might in the US, but in other markets there are lower spec ones
fitted.
>>Perhaps equivalent to business class when flying?
>
> Well, in any event, BMW's nomenclature has got us all confused to the
> point where we can't even decide if "business grade" is a "good" or a
> "bad" thing.
>
> Maybe that's how BMW intended it to be.
> --
> Dan.


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