2 Series
BMW’s 2 Series Gran Coupe is the brand’s latest front-wheel drive model joining an extremely popular segment in Europe. The premium four-door coupe takes on the Mercedes-Benz CLA and the Audi A3/S3 Sedan. The styling…
Horatiu Boeriu / February 9, 2020
2 Series
The BMW 1 Series will soon migrate to a front-wheel drive platform and while the UKL platform is the basis of some really fun cars, like the MINI JCW, some have concerns about future models. As…
Gabriel Nica / October 20, 2017
1 Series
BMW’s future entry-level front-wheel drive model has been caught out during testing in Germany. This new generation of compact BMWs will undergo its greatest evolution to date, with a change of platform included that will eliminate…
Horatiu Boeriu / September 3, 2017
1 Series
BMW has unveiled the China-only 1 Series Sedan at the ongoing Guangzhou Auto Show. To be locally produced by the BMW-Brilliance joint venture, there are currently no plans to launch the car elsewhere. However, Europe…
Guest Writer / November 24, 2016
Videos
AWD vs FWD vs RWD: Who Wins?
by Horatiu Boeriu
/ Date: February 24, 2015
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
For AutoExpress, Ian Robertson, BMW board member for sales and Marketing, has confirmed that company will produce 11 vehicles based on the new front-wheel drive platform. The UKL1 platform also offers a four-wheel drive configuration….
Horatiu Boeriu / December 5, 2013
BMW X1
The highly successful BMW X1 will get a new design in 2016. But that it’s not the only change that the X1 will go through. According to our sources, the second generation BMW X1 will…
Horatiu Boeriu / September 14, 2013
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
News
Another day and a new forecasting report from BMW. In a discussion with the Automotive News journalists, BMW’s CEO Norbert Reithofer gave a glance into the brand’s future. BMW is developing a new family of…
Horatiu Boeriu / March 25, 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