Rumors
Rumor of the week comes from the usual BMW insider Scott26/27. With an on/off track record, we always encourage you to take his words with a grain of salt. But nonetheless, here is the latest…
Horatiu Boeriu / September 12, 2014
2 Series
The Appeal of the Roundel About ten years ago a co-worker wandered into my office at the phone company to interrupt my goofing off and talk about cars. Specifically she wanted to talk about replacing…
Hugo Becker / July 25, 2014
Interesting
Herbert Diess, BMW Board Member for Research and Development, told Automotive News Europe that the Munich-based automaker that moving forward, BMW and MINI models will be built upon only two architectures, rear-wheel drive and front-wheel…
Horatiu Boeriu / March 15, 2014
2 Series
BMW R&D boss Herbert Diess told Automotive News Europe that BMW is planning 45-models range, consisting of both rear-wheel drive and front-wheel drive vehicles. The BMW executive said that 15 of those vehicles will be…
Horatiu Boeriu / February 13, 2014
Concepts
BMW: “FWD vehicles will be embraced just like BMW SUVs”
by Horatiu Boeriu / Date: October 29, 2012
Interesting
In an interview for Automotive News, Ian Robertson, BMW AG board member for sales and marketing, said that the Munich-based automaker will build up to twelve compact models based on the the new front-wheel drive…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 2, 2012
Featured Posts
Start. In the beginning was the Cugnot artillery tractor. More than one version of the three-wheeled front-wheel-drive (FWD) steamer came off the drawing boards in the second half of the eighteenth century. The apocryphal story…
Hugo Becker / April 6, 2010
Featured Posts
Autocar reports that BMW will produce a FWD platform to battle the Audi A1 and Mercedes ForFour in the premium small car segment. In the article, they claim Norbert Reithofer as a source of information…
Shawn Molnar / March 9, 2010