BMW 2-Series Active Tourer Image Leaks Out Ahead Of Geneva Debut

Amazing looking vehicle. Now I can see BMW is truly serious about competing with Hyundai.

Hyundai Accent finally has a good challenger here.

OMG, what's happening to BMW?

5-Series GT, 3-Series Sedan and 4-series Gran Coupe, i3 and now the 2-Series Active Tourer.

BMW executives are going to pay a dear price for their extremely poor product planning as BMW's sales will fail to keep pace with Audi's and Audi will overtake BMW as the world's best-selling premium brand within 6 years.

BMW keeps creating models that no one asked for. First BMW's sales will fail to keep pace with the competition's and then its profit margin will be further pressured due to rising costs.

You keep on posting the same illogical garbage regarding every BMW model. Newsflash:

Mercedes has an A-Class and B-Class and has a GLA coming.

Audi has an A1 and had an A2 and is coming out with another A2, along with the Q1 and Q2.

This would compete with those, and certainly doesn't look any worse than they do. Sharing engines, transmissions, platforms, etc. with Mini also means it costs very little to create models like this. They're extremely profitable. You should look up the term "economies of scale". Frankly I'm shocked you didn't already know this term, since sharing amongst the VW brands is the #1 key component to Audi being profitable. Since I don't think you're actually as stupid or ignorant as you keep portending to be on here, though, I'm sure you do know the term and you're just choosing to ignore reality. The pot couldn't call the kettle black otherwise.

Mega-yuck. I hope the drawing is just a bad joke.

The big difference, JRob, is that the Mercedes-Benz GLA and A-class actually look nice and serve a unique purpose (the same can be said for Audi's models). Audi's Q5 and soon-to-arrive Q3 look pretty much identical (with the Q3 being smaller) but the Q5 has become the best-selling SUV in its class, ahead of the BMW X3 and Mercedes-Benz GLK.

BMW's new models, on the other hand, look like complete disaster and overlap to the point where cannibalization is inevitable. The 5-Series GT was a complete failure and BMW admitted as much. The difference between the 3-series sedan and 4-series Gran Coupe is extremely small. Furthermore, buyers will pay a premium for the 4-series Gran Coupe but get little more than a lift gate trunk vs. the 3-series and will have REDUCED interior head and leg room for the rear passengers vs. the 3-series. What an awesome strategy!

Sure the cost savings might be achieved from sharing parts and platforms from MINI, thereby reducing the total production cost, but Audi spreads its parts, platforms (ie costs) savings over a wider number of brands including Porsche, Bentley and Volkswagen.

If you have been following my posts, which you have, you would know that I am the first to mention the advantages of economies of scale or saving costs by spreading them out across a wider portfolio of brands - which is exactly what Audi does by being a member of the powerful Volkswagen Auto Group.

You are so full of it.

I'm pretty sure when you post you sit there, with you tongue in cheek laughing to yourself, thinking about how much you hope to troll BMW fans...

.. if not I think you must just be seriously deluded. Seriously, as soon as it comes to BMW, you seem to remove your 'German' fan glasses, and don your 'Audi' fan glasses.

I'm surprised that JRob finds the energy to counter most of your posts!

Personally, I'm a fan of the German 3, I like them all for different reasons, and I dislike them all for similarly different reasons. the fact is that with the 2 Active Tourer, BMW have further blurred the lines between the three of them. Really, the only one that stands out for it's drive train now is Audi.. but, for the lack of RWD models! (not a great thing!)

Personally, if I were looking in this segment, I'd be most tempted by Mercedes, FWD isn't a deal breaker at this level, since it has distinct advantages for this type of car. Within the BMW lineup though... I guess I'd take this over an X1, since that is unforgivably ugly.

I think it's a brave move by BMW to offer this in the US, but a cynical marketing move to cash in on the new 2 series moniker to convince people it's sporty... it REALLY needed to be labelled a 1 series IMO.

Well said DTM . Nuttie - apparently you missed that Audi is coming out with a S1 to compete with Mini on a FWD platform to go with their Q1, Q3, q5, q7,and soon to be q8 as well as maybe a q4, and q6. Not too mention the a3, a4,a5,a6,a7,a8 and maybe an a1. and that other concept car they are making ...

There are alot of niche markets for low production vehicles on the market & BMW has to come out with a FWD versions. Heck 70% of the Audi models have a FWD variant, yet it is sacraligious for BMW to do such a thing.

Nuttie Who you crappin?

I'm not full of it. BMW's logic behind its recent model launches is confusing at best. The overlap between the 3-series and 4-series Gran Coupe is highly questionable as is the price premium for the 4-series Gran Coupe.

The difference between this 2-Series Active Tourer and BMW X1, as you stated, is highly questionable.

For a car company that who's slogan is "We Only Make One Thing - The Ultimate Driving Machine" this is absolutely pathetic.

4-cylinder engines, FWD and turbos in M-cars? BMW has contradicted itself 3 times.

BMW once swore that it wouldn't use a 4-cylinder engine because it wasn't "sporty" enough, would make cars only in RWD and would not use turbos in its most sporting models because it was an easy way to achieve performance.

Now we have a 4-cyinder 3-series, a FWD 2-series Active Tourer and M-cars with turbos.

"4-cylinder engines, FWD and turbos in M-cars?"

Replace M with RS and you have Audi. By the way, BMW was using turbos 40 years ago. They have been using inline 4's since 1960, and the very first M3 was powered by one.

Whatever Audi pays you to be their corporate mouthpiece, they are wasting their money. I guarantee you that you've turned more people off getting an Audi with your ignorant drivel than you've converted to the VW mothership. And this is coming from someone who had an Audi when I was in Germany with the military and a Touareg when I got back. Keep it up, buddy.

Hahahaha!!! Yeah, they loved turbos so much it literally disappeared from their ENTIRE LINEUP for almost 4 decades, along with 4-bangers and FWD!!!! Weird, how Audi literally incorporates across their entire lineup along with AWD and there was endless bashing for a decade about it. Yet now that BMW resorts to it, suddenly it is "so what" or revolutionary.

Fucking lemmings.

Looking through these articles and comments over time, one thing becomes unmistakably clear.

GermanNut and JDMUSCLe rack up the most negative vote counts. Why do you guys bother posting on this website if most subscribers here do not value your opinions?

JRob, Audi used a 4-cylinder in an A4, used FWD in mainstream models and used turbos in its S and RS models BEFORE BMW did in recent times. BMW is jumping on the bandwagon because it realizes Audi was one step ahead of it in using all three things mentioned above.

Just because BMW at one point in its history had 4-cylinders and turbos does not change the fact that BMW contradicted its recent claims.

What's your point? As JRob pointed out - BMW have been using 4 cylinders since the M10 engine appeared in the 60's... it was used in the 3 series since the first gen back in 1975, and every generation since... you mention it in the context of the A4, a model that didn't even exist until 1994.

And, yes BMW M cars have only recently had to resort to using forced induction, but the 2002 Turbo (that bore the M tricolour) was about years before Audi started Turbocharging, nevermind introducing S/RS models.

As for mainstream FWD... So what? BMW have now started to use it because it's more appropriate than RWD for the model they've launched.

So, whilst I would agree BMW are contradicting some of their not-so-recent marketing materials, I fail to see why you insist on bringing Audi in to the mix, or inferring BMW are now jumping on Audi's 'bandwagon'.

... unless you're just spewing forth more Audi fan-boy propaganda.

I brought Audi into the mix because Audi did all three things (4-cylinders, FWD and turbos) in its recent cars (at least in the U.S.) BEFORE BMW.

BMW was therefore reacting to what the competition was doing instead of predicting new trends and taking the lead with regards to changing its models.

While BMW has been at the forefront of other innovations (iDrive to name one) this lack of foresight demonstrates how BMW is losing its edge (along with its screwed up naming scheme).

When did Audi come out with MMI? How many Engine of the Year Awards has Audi won in the past 10 years? BMW has won ALOT. the 4cyl turbo by BMW is a far superior engine than the one Audi/VW created. And you are bragging that BMW is copying audi as audi came out with an inferior 4 cyl turbo. That neither is 1st in Performance, Balance, or Fuel Economy in the segment. That belongs to BMW>



Screwed up naming scheme as compared to AUDI. lol ... you just love to swim in the Audi Koolade.

BMW has won 60 Internation Engine of the Year Awards .... Your beloved Audi has only won 15, Porsche 5, & VW is at 12 for a total of 32 for the Group Combined. Face it BMW has a better 4 cyl turbo engine than Audi and has building 4 cyl engines for alot longer

No. You brought Audi into the mix because Audi pays you to troll blogs as their champion and crap on anything remotely BMW related. You even do it in threads that aren't about BMW or Audi. You are the worst kind of fanboy, and you seriously make it almost impossible to like the brand. So good job, I hope you feel proud cashing those checks.