FWD

FWD BMW M Cars Are Not Even on the Radar Right Now

FWD BMW M Cars Are Not Even on the Radar Right Now

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…

Front-wheel drive BMW 1 Series spotted in motion

Front-wheel drive BMW 1 Series spotted in motion

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…

AWD vs FWD vs RWD: Who Wins?

BMW to limit platform architecture to two

BMW to limit platform architecture to two

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…

Editorial: A Brief History of Front Wheel Drive

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…