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Originally Posted by Sapphireho
My guess is a manufacturer, that BMW owns a good share of, made a bunch of a "new design" turn stalk. No one wanted them, so instead of taking a loss, BMW said, "none of our customers use the turn signal stalk, so we can put them in our cars and no one will notice."
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This checks out.
EDIT: and as part of the deal for the Supra engines, BMW talked Toyota into buying an absolute crapload of them citing "minimum purchase quantities".