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Originally Posted by ElfinForest318ti  Most German car manufacturers design/produce/print their U.S. brochure in Germany so they can control uniform corporate branding. So alot of the car pictures may depict colors or equipment levels not imported into the states. Typically somewhere in the brochure in very small type is a disclaimer stating something to this point. |
From what I remember comparing brochures, the U.S. editions appeared to have been written and (re)arranged by BMW NA, largely using the photos found in the German brochure.
If someone saved a 1998 'ti brochure, I have its German and Swedish counterparts we can compare it to.