German Car Zone

AWS is coming

Indeed it is. The only question is "On which specific model first?"

What is AWS?.

Active wheel steering ? and what about the 42v & cameless engines, probably the biggest vapoware of the automtive industry ?

All-Wheel Steering

All Wheel Steering

edit: ok already posted by EnI

Oh i dont think that is so important, i think BMW should focus on release a extremely good looking car, prettier than the S-Class, making it a real step up above the current one.

And first of all, the AB rear is nt so pretty, hope my friend is not wright.

Camless engine is still not ready for production. Still too unreliable. The problem are electric circuit (42V), in-car communication protocol (current ones are still too slow & too unreliable), sensors are still the weakest part.

Launching a camless engine at this time would be too risky.

The case with 42V electric circuit is even more complicated - there is no consensus among car manufacturers, and even more problematic - there is no 42V-compatible appliances in the market (eg. entertainment units etc). So 42V system is too exotic at this time - all features would be tailor made and therefore much too expensive for a serial production.





Disign is great - the car is gorgeous, having much greater presence than S-class, LS or A8.

Regarding AWS & Co.:

BMW are determined to make this car to be the ultimate benchmark in driving dynamics in the segment.

Dynamic Drive features BMW are working on currently are brilliant: new front & rear active suspension (based on FlexRay protocol), Adaptive Drive v2.0 (EDC + ARS), air-suspension, Active steering v2.0 (incl AWS), Dynamic Performance Control rear diff, DSC ++ (next gen.), etc.

42V on next all-new big engine
today agenda is "ED"
tomorrow engines get coercive breath

Bi-turbo V12 ?
??