In addition to the battery-powered (or is it a hybrid?) i3 and i8 cars, BMW may build an electrified X3-sized crossover, 5-series sedan and perhaps a larger Tesla Model X-sized SUV in its “i” car range, The Detroit Bureau is reporting.
The speculation comes from BMW chief Harald Krueger who said there was room in the “i” range for something else.
“Between the i3 and the i8, there is space if you look at it from the number point of view,” Harald Krueger said in an interview with the German newspaper F.A.S.
Precisely four numbers are between 3 and 8. Let’s speculate!
Perhaps it was a foregone conclusion that BMW would expand its “i” range of cars with other models, such as an electrified SUV or crossover. The Model X goes on sale next month and other German automakers are already preparing for plug-in or electric versions of their cars.
The Detroit Bureau says the X3-sized electric crossover i5 (or maybe it’ll be a 5 Series-sized sedan?) will go on sale in 2017, and there may be more to come.
Of course, BMW could just fold up the “i” brand and assimilate their tech into the current naming convention and then we’d all have less to talk about. Maybe.
I think that BMW’s i program is more about reducing the cost of carbon fiber than about battery powered cars.
So when you crash your carbon fiber BMW do you send it to Calfee for “frame” repair?
When I took home an i3 for a weekend, the BMW Genius told me they are prepping an i5.
I thought it must have been common knowledge, then.
There are six numbers between 3 and 8. 4, 4 Gran Coupe, 5, 6, 6 Gran Coupe, 7…
Well, in BMW’s current lineup there are as much as 14 different body styles between 3 and 7 if you include the X’s (and not the i’s). So, yeah, at least a lot more than 4.
At this point they are just jerking our chains.
there’s an infinite number of non integers between 3 and 8
Will they get successively better looking? The 3 looks like it’s been in a car accident.