Paul Tan on the Automotive Industry
BMW will be exhibiting a new concept vehicle at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show next week, but nothing else has been revealed about the new concept car other than the fact that it will be based on the BMW 1-Series platform.
A new small 3-door SUV called the BMW X1 perhaps? We will just have to wait for next week’s motorshow to see.
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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
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I smell ridiculous stuff…I hope im wrong
wait ?
1 Series derived SUV might be smaller than current Kembara…
or 3dr fastback hatch? (little like merc coupe)
,x1 possibly,, (high possibility)
pickup, (not the bavaria)
sedan (3 series got that, not impossible though)
i guess…..fastback,
Hmmm blank*
I can only think it must be an M1 – the question now is will it be a mega hot 1 series coupe or a proper replacement for the original?
mattboy M1 clash with the old M1,
how would they named it, 1M?
Ahemm …… must be BMW new superbike!
something to rival the myvi…
where’s the car?
mystvearn said,
October 17, 2007 @ 12:01 am
something to rival the myvi…
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i doubt ppl in munich even know what the heck is a myvi
they got nissan micra right, so thats a kelissa variant
Isetta?
lol…..
proton.GL – they had the same problem when the introduced the E46 M3 – nobody in Motorsport wanted to call it M3 as it clashed with the legend E30 and it very nearly got called 330CSi (which probably suited the nature of the car better) but the marketing boys won out in the end and we got the M3
I think the same could happen here, the need to market the 1 Series with an M flagship will win over the people who want to preserve history – we’ll see
theres no m1…i think they will stretched dat platform to make it bigger…