{"id":439189,"date":"2010-03-17T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=53198"},"modified":"2010-03-17T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:45:35","slug":"bmw-ceo-confirms-development-of-new-front-wheel-drive-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439189","title":{"rendered":"BMW CEO confirms development of new front-wheel-drive vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was reported earlier this month that BMW is considering a new front-wheel-drive entry-level model<\/a> that will be positioned under the existing 1-Series. CEO Norbert Reithofer confirmed today that BMW is indeed working on a front-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive architecture that will underpin a new range of entry-level BMW vehicles along with the next-generation Mini models.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be front-wheel-drive BMWs in the smaller vehicle classes in the future,\u201d Reithofer said.<\/p>\n

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Klaus Draeger, BMW’s development boss, said that the new front-wheel-drive architecture will debut in 2014 with the third-generation Mini. He said that the architecture will enable BMW to produce a range of vehicles that will measure between 3,800mm and 4,300mm long – that’s comparable to the Volkswagen Polo, Golf and Scirocco.<\/p>\n

Insiders say that at its peak, the new platform will underpin up to 20 different BMW and Mini models.<\/p>\n

– By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Automotive News<\/a> (Subscription Required)<\/p>\n

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It was reported earlier this month that BMW is considering a new front-wheel-drive entry-level model that will be positioned under the existing 1-Series. CEO Norbert Reithofer confirmed today that BMW is indeed working on a front-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive architecture that will underpin a new range of entry-level BMW vehicles along with the next-generation Mini models. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}