BMW will release his first car with front-wheel drive

At the annual press conference in Germany, general manager of the Bavarian automaker BMW, Norbert Reithofer has officially confirmed plans to release a new compact model with front drive, which will compete with hatchback luxury "Audi A1, presented at the International Motor Show in Geneva.

Bavarians are going to create a unified architecture that will form the basis of new small-sized cars. It is reported that the platform will be released not only front-wheel models, but cars with wheel-drive system. Earlier it was reported that the platform a new compact car BMW MINI Cooper will share with the next generation, which should appear on sale in 2014.

"In the future we plan to achieve sales growth not only in the segment of heavy vehicles, but also in the segment of compact cars - said Norbert Reithofer. - We're going to offer new options and models of MINI and BMW, so that in the short term the market will find a small front-wheel cars BMW ".

According to the WCF, the new architecture will allow BMW to build a diversified up to 20 cars, one of which could be the car 0-series. According to unofficial data, the novelty will be completed with 3 - and 4-cylinder engines, including 1.5-liter turbo diesel unit producing 163 horsepower, which was first shown at the Frankfurt show-square BMW Vision EfficientDynamics.