BMW has announced that former Audi quattro boss Franciscus Van Meel will succeed Friedrich Nitschke as head of its M performance car division from January 1 next year.
The appointment of 48-year-old Van Meel at BMW M comes less than a year after he was controversially ousted from quattro following a reported clash with Audi’s research and development boss, Ulrich Hackenberg, over the development decisions taken with the all-electric R8 E-Tron and second-generation R8.
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