‘BMW plant model year 1 Series sedan’

Posted on 26-09-2013 at 14:40 by sir_smokalot – 38 Comments”

‘Rear wheel drive is fun, but a lot more sales and profits is fun!’, thus, the management of BMW when the plans for the 1 Series sedan ontvouwden. There must be a Munich of course, however, an answer to the A3 Sedan and CLA.

Despite the fact that they are at the top of the food chain with a few potentially brilliant products is still desperately trying to cover up, becomes a BMW more and more to a mainstreammerk, with the accompanying inevitable mediocrity, or, even worse, ondermaatsheid.

We mention, for example, the BMW 114d, a fop BMW with a paper-very economical 1.6 litre with fuck-all hp, specially for the people who are actually no BMW can afford, but to whom the trademark under the guise of ‘making money’ yet want to have something to sell. Call it the sub-prime mortgage of the hoods. Previously had BMW’s nose for this kind of crap picked up, but today, the euro signs in the eyes stronger than principles.

In addition, there is a whole slew model year models (even the next X1 according to the rumors), where the expectations are quite cynical about, but as long as there is still no model on the market, we can here it is difficult to judge. Who knows, they drive brilliantly, and actually in a class higher.

From a sales point of view, may be a sedan in the C segment, actually also not to be missed. The German competitors have this already at their dealers, and now it seems BMW is also a morsel of that cake. A 1 Series sedan based on the UKL1 platform, where both the new-generation MINI as the bottom of the BMW-spectrum on, it seems, therefore, inevitable.

After all, the platform is already there, and the three – and four-cylinder engines have been developed, so the only thing you need to do is two extra doors in the 1 Series, eeehhhh 2 Series Coupe draw, and him to the back of something more practical. Minimum effort, maximum result.

Internally called the project NES (New Entry-level Sedan), reports Automotive News, and we can be around 2017 with a production model expected. Actually it is the size of a 3-Series two generations back, but without the RWD and the fierce engines. Everything to the largest.