Most of you in the market for a compact executive sedan would know that the F30 3-Series sedan is due soon. Some are speculating a début in conjunction with BMW’s association with the 2012 Olympics by the end of this year, at least in concept form. This year’s Frankfurt or next year’s Geneva show are prime candidates for an unveiling venue, and perhaps an F30Li at a Chinese show.
These are the most recent spy shots of the F30 BMW 3-Series sedan snapped by SB-Medien, with some of the disguise coming off the car. There were three cars moving together – two white and one black. The disguise reveals certain details like what the rear tail lamp internal lenses look like.
This white car has higher specs as you can see from the different headlamps. Curiously the angel eye rings of the front headlamps look like they’ve taken on a different shape than the circles that we’re so used to. It looks like the rings have a flat bottom – this is actually not the first time we’ve seen BMW do something like this as the flat-bottom angel eye ring first made its début in the F13 6-Series Coupe’s full LED headlamps.
This black car appears to have regular halogen headlamps. It also has only one tailpipe at the rear as opposed to the white car which has a twin tailpipe on the left side.
Looks like a case of “Honey, I shrunk the F10!”, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Look after the jump for a full hi-res gallery of the spy shots.
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OMG This car really looks solid.
Only car where they talk about diesel and we actually get it!!
Looks like a car with shaving cream
The Focus too. :-)
2 things that gives me an orgasm…punani and bmw
why did they covered the logo? It’s obviously BMW. Or are there regulations that made by FIA that every companies must hides their logo whenever while doing the testing?
FIA?… lol…what the heck has FIA got to do with it?….lol
its subtle camouflage. but bmw has never been shy about revealing on purpose their concept cars undergoing testing.. also, even though the logo is covered, the big kidney grill is a dead giveaway.
and btw, FIA only deals with motorsports.. and not just cars… but bikes, trucks..etc.
thanks rallyfan00 for that info. :)
It already looked so nice with camo, the stance looks sharp and dynamic, tail lamp should be very similar to X3’s
Ford is another one that has small diesel car on sale in Malaysia. Proton is not even serious about offering diesel engine. If it is serious about being a global player, it should really look into a diesel engine or two. Over here, Mitsubishi has offered a diesel option for its ASX.
The Black test car will probably be a 4 cylinder option whilst the white one will be a 6cylinder with probably a SE trim level.
Black one probably a 4 cyc diesel.
dangerous to drive on the road. difficult to be spotted
“Honey I shrunk the F10!”
LOL i was thinking the same thing Paul. Nice though.
But the tail light looks funny, like the old Lexus, forgot which model, but with the round reverse lamp on the boot.
is bmw goin to follow the market trend move the signal light to the side mirror…
E30 an icon of the 80s…
F30 the next iconn???
paul any update on ur E30 restoration?? cheers!
is that the LED indicator on the side mirrors? buruk la pulak aku tgk. tak masuk dengan BMW. it’s more like the side mirrors belong to Naza Citra.
Damn… I just ordered my E90 :(
from f430 downgrade to e90 kah?
OK that’s funny!
A new E90? It’s nearing end of cycle, perhaps you could just buy a pre-owned 2009 E90.
HOpefully this car does not breakdown and have so many problems like the E90. All my friends who have the current E90, are perpetually in the service centre trying to repair their car, though they bought their cars brand new. Some are even there every month. Pay a premium for problems.
I had BMW’s for almost 20 yrs, they’re all ‘Banyk Masuk Workshop’…so i decided to move to fast Jap cars which are super reliable..I still own an e60 and so fr it has maintained its love for workshops..too bad i love their 6 cylinders..
is bmw goin to follow market trend to move the signal light to side mirror?
looks like E90 and E46 cross….nothing new!!!!…
Better keep ur money and buy pre approved E90
The brand new is giving great discount as well, no need the pre-owned…
We shall be seeing a lot of this F30 once it is launch…
Looks like BMW is cutting the budget on design. Previous model looks better.
I.e E60 vs F10. Now E90 looks much better than this.
Shit …. Just booked a Passat CC and still waiting …
WHAT SHOULD I DO ? :)
erm… it seems that future bmw will have turn-indicators on the side mirrors…. i tot they will stick to “no turning lamp on side mirror” principle… ermmm
bmw’s design of late has been somewhat bland and boring and models like the x series a plain ugly except the x6, no doubt they are well engineered but designs from chris bangle days were much better.
OK design wise …. this Hoidonk fella is really not as aggressive as Bangle …
Now we start to miss Bangled days ….
All over the world BMW prices have been going down. Here, BMW Msia increase thier prices. And they put spec not wanted to justify a higher prices. What a conjob. Force people to take options. This new 3 series will be higher at RM280,000.
Old E60 only RM343,000, then E90 becomes RM383,000. They bull by saying extra spec. Sterling and Euro also lower now. Why can’t BMW Malaysia give us basic cars and let us decide what options we need?? Like I dont need a RM20,000 Navigation WHEN my rm399 Garmin can do the same thing
If you want cheap, then you are looking at a wrong place.
Did you mean F10 instead of E90? Since E90 was like RM240k+ upwards when launched.
the front is like X1 design, the back its either E92, or same pattern as F10 i guess. Hope its bigger size in the trunk since current E90 trunk is smaller than Waja.
when will it reach our shores? should potential E90 buyer wait for this model?
Looks good so far…how about the interior? More interior space will be a welcome. I hope they don’t hike the price too high…add RM10k to the current price ok…don’t be like Merc which I heard plans to add around RM30k to the FL C class.
Hopefully this F30 does not need to enter workshops so often. They need the reliability of a Merc.
some merc models not that great either la. my mum’s c200k had a major problem just before hitting 100k km. while my 3 is up to 270k km now and not visiting the workshop very much.
Must be really hard for BMW to improve on something which is already so good.
the run out stock for the remaining e90 could be a really good deal once this comes on sale
Are you being bias or what? The 320i E90 has only 156 bhp and you said it is already so good?!?! No offence.
Regards.
Why make assumption that is 320i, he may talk about 335i, now I think you are really bias.
pfft…only talk about power, the fact is the 3 series has been the benchmark for many other makes and if you didn;t know there isn’t only one engine for it
looks like a scaled-down version of the 5 series…which is not a bad thing… =)
love this car…very solid
In my opinion..
The E46 is the most handsome 3 Series..
in my opinion, bmw is outdated car, lousy in europe
BMW has been, currently is and most probably will be the best selling luxury car in the world and you say it is outdated and lousy, use brain to think not buttock lah bro.
bmw sucks nowadays, the design so cheap and boring, like copying from 5 series, not like old days anymore.
everytime got critics bout bm surely there are malaysian to rebut, this shows that lotsa malaysian are so closed and narrowed minded, only stick to bm or merc while the world is changing, bad taste malaysian
Hope BMW not Banyak Masuk Workshop anymore this time…..