German Car Zone

On the topic: I hope the hype from developing* countries wear off much faster than anticipated, the US takes the logical (and only) step towards downsizing and that BMW subsequently drops all SUV M-models.

*)Russia, China and others.

The only good thing i see on Co2 emission debate is that manufactures must downsize their cars. Get them smaller and lighter.

The downside is they go turbo route.

Turbo s i like for daily. But for sheer driving, fun and throttle response a thru high rev engine is the only engine which belongs in a 1 serie s ///M car.

All the big boats like the x5m x6m M5 and M6 and lately also the M3 does not need racebred engines anymore because those things are way to big and way to heavy to begin with. So all these boats can have turbo engines good for american market. Let us european get an High Rev ///M and i mean the M from Motorsport and not from Marketing and build us a car which we can enjoy again in cornering and on trackdays. 1 series M hatchback 3 doors version would raise my heartbeat. Nice 3.0 6 cil engine 320hp and 8000 rpm and 1250kg would get me so fast to a dealer even a police man in a veyron couldn t catch me before i signed the papers.

Now lets hope ///M build me one before i get to old and before we drive on electric cars.

We'll get some crazy turbos as well. Just wait till they are introduced in F1 cars, and then the know-how transfered into production cars.

Of course under one condition: F1 have to survive.

I would not mind BMW M acquiring the whole Tesla Project, Lotus and all, just to show they mean business.

X6M is an about as unenvironmentally conscious display one could ever imagine. But we know the story, BMW was not fast enough to pull the plug on the project. It is not hard to imagine what it would have sounded like had BMW predicted the crisis just half a year earlier.... "Oh, why would anyone build cars lke the X5M in the world we live in today?".

Like I said earlier, lets hope some countries gets is sooner than later.