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Originally Posted by SCOTT26
The Active Tourer will come to the USA as there is an established segment, there will be further FWD BMWs offered as well as you are beginning to see a more expansive BMW market in the US with recently launched cars such as the 320i and of course further inclusion of diesel.
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SCOTT, is the plan still to launch all of these FWD products with a 1 Series badge? Or can the modular matrix accommodate a wide range of vehicle sizes, the larger of which possibly fitting better in the 3 Series lineup (or others)?
Already the 1 AT XL seems like it is getting fairly big as compared to an F20 for example. And in some markets, particularly the US, I can see larger seven-seat BMWs being in high demand. Obviously you can build RWD seven seaters too, but the FWD layout has clear advantages in space efficiency.
I guess what I am saying is, it seems that at some point in time, larger FWD BMWs will be inevitable.