{"id":1161,"date":"2007-07-24T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/07\/24\/bmw-city-car-fo\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:55:42","slug":"bmw-city-car-fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/07\/24\/bmw-city-car-fo\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW city-car for 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Logobmw\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/logobmw1.jpg\"  style=\"float: left;margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><br \/> According to Auto Motor und Sport, BMW might launch a city car in 2010 in order to compete with the future Audi A1.<\/p>\n<p>The news seems rather suspicious. Audi is developing the A1 to compete with the Mini built by BMW. Why would BMW develop a car that would compete with its own range? Furthermore, according to the German magazine, the car will have the same length as the Mini. It will be a front wheel drive vehicle that will reject less than 100g CO2 per km.<\/p>\n<p>Why would BMW launch a direct competitor of the Mini? Is the car as unprofitable as rumours have indicated? It has been said that BMW will lend the Mini platform to Mercedes for the next A-Class, but BMW has denied the rumours and declared it made a profit on each car produced since the new Mini has been launched.<\/p>\n<p>So, the city-BMW would seem to be a bad idea for the present and would not be a logical step BMW. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Auto Motor und Sport, BMW might launch a city car in 2010 in order to compete with the future Audi A1. The news seems rather suspicious. Audi is developing the A1 to compete with the Mini built by BMW. Why would BMW develop a car that would compete with its own range? Furthermore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":4544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmw"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BMW city-car for 2010? - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/07\/24\/bmw-city-car-fo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"BMW city-car for 2010? - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"According to Auto Motor und Sport, BMW might launch a city car in 2010 in order to compete with the future Audi A1. 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