{"id":576615,"date":"2010-05-24T01:18:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/archives\/41382"},"modified":"2010-05-24T01:18:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:18:44","slug":"bmw-executives-admit-they-may-have-missed-the-model-mix-with-5-series-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576615","title":{"rendered":"Bmw executives admit they may have missed the model mix with 5-Series GT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/files\/2010\/05\/3a70449ec17694fbf59c500d58c3ced3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" class=\"rss2wordpress_image alignleft\" alt=\"2010 Bmw 550i xDrive GT\" \/>Bmw introduced last year the brand new 5-Series GT but it appears it also did a little mistake. Apparently, the problem is that the car was available only with rear-wheel drive and a V8 engine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;The V-8 was probably not the right car to launch it with,&#8221; said Rich Brekus, BMW&#8217;s general manager of sales for North America. Of course, this will change as Bmw is planning to introduce an all-wheel-drive model in June as well as a six-cylinder engine in the fall. Since its launch, Bmw sold only 1,143 GTs, outperforming sales of the 5-series wagon last year. &#8220;This <span id=\"more-41382\"><\/span> time next year,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell said, &#8220;we&#8217;ll tell you if it&#8217;s successful or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/files\/2010\/05\/2ab9942ba97be92e9754100f1b0af7da.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" class=\"rss2wordpress_image alignleft\" alt=\"2010 Bmw 5-Series GT xDrive\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/files\/2010\/05\/f76b36aa21b8ed799928146ceb9da060.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" class=\"rss2wordpress_image alignleft\" alt=\"2010 Bmw 5-Series GT xDrive\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/files\/2010\/05\/8c54afc2f67b7bc7614f4c89888b8316.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" class=\"rss2wordpress_image alignleft\" alt=\"2010 Bmw 5-Series GT xDrive\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/files\/2010\/05\/51c7d3cb2584a394ca7933fecee08228.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" class=\"rss2wordpress_image alignleft\" alt=\"2010 Bmw 5-Series GT xDrive\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/files\/2010\/05\/ad8a3e82475e5d99d8963a8c5d293843.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" class=\"rss2wordpress_image alignleft\" alt=\"2010 Bmw 5-Series GT xDrive\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p> [via autonews &#8211; sub. required] <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p class=\"rss2wordpress_signature\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4wheelsnews.com\/\">Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bmw introduced last year the brand new 5-Series GT but it appears it also did a little mistake. Apparently, the problem is that the car was available only with rear-wheel drive and a V8 engine. &#8220;The V-8 was probably not the right car to launch it with,&#8221; said Rich Brekus, BMW&#8217;s general manager of sales [&hellip;]<\/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-576615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576615","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=576615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}