BMW Concept Compact Sedan: this is the four-door 1 Series
Posted on 20-11-2015 at 7:40 by sir_smokalot – 83 Comments”
As the last of the German Three is BMW a sedan in the C segment, and this fat boy is here, a taste of. Mercedes CLA and Audi A3 Sedan, here’s your new competitor.
For the motor show of Guangzhou, BMW has a small sexified 4-door car. It is with its big 20″ rims, extra voluptuous lines and small mirrors still clear a concept, but here 95% of the new 1 Series Sedan. BMW is a major non-European market, because where we mainly hatchbacks to keep eating the Chinese and Americans prefer sedans.
Considering the format – that is for the Americans may be a bit too compact – this sedan-adding a 3-Series mainly focus on the Chinese market, where the biggest growth is from, but that is still by far the largest in the world. BMW’s head designer Karim Habib puts it as follows:
The BMW Concept Compact Sedan represents the approach to life or a generation of youth in China. These potential customers are confident, dynamic and extremely quality-conscious and have a feel for aesthetics. “The characterful design of the BMW Concept Compact Sedan embodies the driving pleasure offered by a sporting car with minimised exterior dimensions. It is as distinctive as it is essential – and, as such, it injects new life into the compact segment. This four-by sedan stands for everything that sets BMW apart,”
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BMW is busy with his smaller models to front wheel drive to switch, and we expect that a production version of the 1 Series Sedan, the forces acting on the driving wheels is released, just like the new X1 and 2 Series Kukident Tourers is the case. This is more so because the next generation 1 Series is also on the (model year) UKL2 (Untere Klasse) platform.
Anyway, more specs are at this stage unnecessary, but here comes t.z.t, of course, a transversely mounted three cylinder in. BMW shopte a nice photoset in film noir style, where the Concept of Compact Sedan between a multitude of lichtzuilen to sparklen as a vampire in a bakvissenromannetje. Enjoy it.
Gallery: BMW Concept Compact Sedan
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