BMW is getting ready to embark on a radical engineering and technology drive which could see all future models from the 3-series upwards, including the Rolls-Royce range, become all-wheel-drive range-extender electric cars.
This ground-up rethink for BMW is based both on the way that the body is constructed and the make-up of the powertrain. The days of welded steel bodies and engines that drive the rear wheels via conventional transmissions are set to be consigned to history, according to the latest thinking by BMW’s advanced engineering department.
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