BMW mulls future of small front-driven combustion cars
The BMW source told Autocar that a review of these smaller UKL-based models was ongoing as senior planners and officials look afresh at the business model of producing smaller vehicles.
"There are a number of issues to consider," the source said."Firstly, the size of UKL makes electrification harder because the potential size of a battery is restricted. "Secondly, the scale of UKL is an issue. [Cars based on it] sell in very low volumes in the US. The biggest potential market is probably China, in the smaller cities, but there they only want a sedan [saloon], rather than a hatchback. But the volumes are quite good and such a car is important as 'my first BMW'. If we left that market, we would be giving the market share away to rivals.", which are not expected to arrive in their final form until this summer.
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