Deckhook, whether the GTS is more of a track car than the CSL is immaterial. Get back to your original contention: that a track-day type car is made for faster times. The slightly off-tangent argument here seems to indicate your position is indefensible. There are many tracks, including the Nurburgring, that discourage the use of timing equipment and there are plenty of cars made from the ground up to be track cars, yet don't advertise low track times as a primary concern. There there appears to be none of the scrutiny in faster lap times among the likes of Lotus, Caterham, or Radicals. Perhaps because, outside of some internet tech-sheet warriors, nobody gives a flying crap. Basically, there is no maths you can apply which would suggest the GTS is any worse of a car than the CSL.
You can butter it up, put whatever twist you want on the GTS but the bottomline is that you are in no better position to determine what is better for BMW than BMW. You have, in fact, found to be wanting in your various assessments about what other cars are worth, and have shown curious criticism against BMW but not other manufacturers who employ similar methods. Your avoidance of a point-blank question indicates that it is you who would like to twist and butter up. Otherwise, I should take that silence as saying that you really would rather have cars sitting unsold on dealer lots.
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