Upcoming Bmw 1-Series will carry a three-cylinder engine! Electric version also considered!

Scheduled for 2012, the upcoming Bmw 1-Series will follow the same recipe shown by the current version! In a recent interview, Mr. Klaus Draeger Bmw’s head of development, said that the future version of the compact car will carry a three-cylinder engine.

Now don’t imagine this will be a slow vehicle because the manufacturer is considering a supercharged version of this powerplant which will deliver more power but also a smaller fuel consumption. The big surprise is that the new 1-Series will also be offered in 100% electric version!
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DinamoR - 4/22/2009 1:56:08 PM

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Why is that a surprise? You have to be retarded not to be developing electric cars by now. Either that or you don't want to be in the car business anymore a decade from now.

EducatedOpinion365 - 4/22/2009 7:41:47 PM

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hahahahaah so true. i hope they make the next design more elegant. bt y r we getting a new 1 so soon. didnt it just come out in '08?

dayday - 4/30/2009 11:43:29 AM

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1 series was out around 2004 worldwide.

tango - 4/24/2009 1:38:00 AM

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The 1-series is not a luxury car. It is a Sport Compact. Get that into your head firstly. Even so, what BMW knows is that even if it had push pedals instead of an engine they would make it handle and go like stink and people would lap it all up. Give them 6 months and all the car magazines will report it to be the best vehicle on Earth and it will sell in the thousands. Honda will try to follow suit, as will Audi and Mercedes. Nissan will come the closest, and in some opinion or the other, out do it. Hyundai will build one similar, and the pages of this forum will be alight with 50+ comments on how clone-like their effort is. We've seen it all before. Get used to it.

VISO - 4/24/2009 11:47:49 AM

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Audi already is developing the A1 which will have an electric/hybrid/diesel version. An A2 is expected as well that is likely to be a form of electric propulsion as well. So, Audi isn't following BMW. They've been working on this for awhile now.