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I am not sure what BMW will call this car. I will wait until the final details and specs come in. When those come in and if it priced at a point I feel that I can afford. Then I will plan an ED, debadge it and call it ///Mine.
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He then says the question is what is the "obvious name as in name meaning a word like turbo or coupe or something else. I think that this is a hint to the fact that the actual name will have the "M" in it as he has said before and an actual word? I may be making a big deal out of nothing.... |
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05-05-2010, 02:14 AM | #333 |
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I could Imagine they just call it "M". Because they want this car to be some kind of "back to the roots" of BMW M. To have this car as a small sporty reference car for the M GmbH.
Like McDonald... at least in Europe they have "The MAC" which is somehow the reference Burger. What do you think? But I also can imagine M Turbo or M Coupe makes sense. |
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05-05-2010, 02:29 AM | #334 | |
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The next obvious term to me is actually 1///M inline with X5///M and X6///M when the obvious term can't be used because of other cars although in that case, the two cars are Mazda and not a BMW.
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05-10-2010, 05:52 PM | #335 |
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Found these posts by Scott while digging around on **************.
Recently there was mention that they did not "Bite the bullet" when deciding which name to use, however that doesn't mean much unless you know what the "bullet" is. The second link hopefully gives the clue: http://www.**************.com/1-seri...tml#post457180 http://www.**************.com/1-seri...tml#post455245 Unless I am reading this wrong, I can only conclude that M1 (on its own) will not be used. I suppose this does not rule out some derivation of M1 such as M1 Coupe. |
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I think you could be right. Isn't Mercedes adding "Coupé" to their car names now?
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05-12-2010, 08:20 AM | #341 |
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Shouldn't it be ///M1 Coupe and ///M1 Cabrio?
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now that I think about it, I'll probably end up debadging my car anyway just like all of my previous cars... Call it the Pink Monkey, I dont care. The badge is coming off.
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I will end up calling it the ///M1 regardless.
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05-13-2010, 07:40 AM | #347 |
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"The key difference is to distance this car as a stand alone model and distinguish it from the current model so it allows the next generation 1er Sporthatch space to integrate itself."
This was posted from Scott - that probably means - ///M2.
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If it is really going to be so, it means that the next 1 Series Coupé and Convertibel are going to be called 2 Series Coupé and Convertible. And this can also mean that the 3 Series Coupé and Convertible will be called 4 Series Coupé and Convertible, and of cours the M car will be an M4. Anyway who cares about the name. Todays M3 E92 has nothing to do with the first M3 E30. The next M3 will be even more comfortable and get FI. Very far from the M3 E30 that was a NA I4. I think the next M2 F22 will be much closer to the M3 E30 with its 2.0L I4 Turbo. All this makes sense. The BMW Supercar will then just be the Z10 Eco-Supercar by BMW AG and not M GmbH, and for this reason not called M10 or so. All this makes sense.
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I'm sure BMW will find a way to put an M on it an not be an M1 perhaps something like 135M or what have you.
I'm interested in this sport hatch that Scott has mentioned. Any chance for a future 135 hatch in the states? A four door hatch 135 with AWD would be a perfect upgrade for me. I'm sure it won't happen so I'll look for the 1 series M or used M3 most likely but I can hope. |
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Hmm.... looking through old posts ... did you have insider info?
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