It’s winter now in the northern hemisphere – this means most if not all the spyshots sent in by our European spy photography providers will be of future cars having fun in the snow. And winter means reduced visibility – this means a lot of the cars that are caught will have their headlamps and tail lamps on, revealing new design details that couldn’t be seen before.
This particular F30 LCI 3-Series had its tail lamps on so we can clearly see the new graphics that BMW will be using for its updated compact executive. It appears to be a two bar design that makes a little loop and joins together towards the outer edge of the tail lamp.
This is actually very similiar to what we’ve seen on the recently unveiled 1-Series LCI and the upcoming all-new G11 7-Series. You can see it in the two images embedded just above – the one on the left is a spyshot of the 7-er’s tail lamps while the one on the right is the 1-Series LCI.
This particular 3-Series prototype also had the words “Hybrid Test Vehicle” on the side. The F30 LCI will get a new plug-in hybrid variant which will indirectly replace the (non-plug-in) ActiveHybrid3. It will use a four-cylinder engine instead of the six-cylinder in the model it will replace.
The plug-in 3-Series will have an all-electric mode, which can be active at up to 120 km/h and as far as 35 km. The lithium-ion battery can be re-charged (through a plug on the front left fender) at any household power socket, and the new power pack takes up less boot space.
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One thing that I didn’t really like about the current F30 is hey it’s front main lamps are more towards the yellowish side even though it’s of xenon type and that’s because BMW uses a lower lumen xenon lights comparing to its competitors and this test unit front lights looks the same…
That means you never owned a F30 as you know nothing about this car although you are putting the picture there.
Better to prepare tow truck number in your speed dial directory
please jolly_idiot2. i think seancorr is the same seancorr that is active on bmwclubmalaysia forums and he does own a f30. he maybe referring to the temperature in kelvin, not lumens. and i’ve changed my f30 hid bulbs to philips extreme vision with 5k temperature.. the stock hid bulbs are using osram 4.1k, which is very yellowish.. just in case you gonna say i’m another fake, please visit this link http://www.bmwclubmalaysia.com/newforums/index.php?/topic/36416-changing-xenon-bulbs-in-f30/#entry708414 i’m the one who started that topic and did the hid bulb change myself
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Nice. But when is BMWM going to extend warranty 2 years A w
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