Former Audi quattro Boss To Head BMW M Division

BMW has announced that former Audi quattro boss Franciscus Van Meel will succeed Friedrich Nitschke as head of its M performance car division from January 1 next year.

The appointment of 48-year-old Van Meel at BMW M comes less than a year after he was controversially ousted from quattro following a reported clash with Audi’s research and development boss, Ulrich Hackenberg, over the development decisions taken with the all-electric R8 E-Tron and second-generation R8.

Car4Life - 9/24/2014 3:12:19 PM

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Well... get ready for a wave of XDrive M variants

MDarringer - 9/24/2014 10:40:25 PM

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And BMW would hire someone from the German "Mercury" division of VWAG why? Does BMW want to dumb down their products?

chewy - 9/25/2014 9:43:10 PM

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Maybe people in the know know just a little bit more than you?