Hoovey689

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BMW planning rear-wheel drive 2 Series?

Consider our fingers crossed. With all of the talk of front-wheel-drive BMW models coming down the pike, we simply assumed that the future of small German hatchbacks with roundels on the hood would be littered with soulless heaps. According to the sleuths over at Car and Driver, however, that's not the case. After discovering that BMW had filed for U.S. patents for the names 228, 230 and 235, someone at BMW let it slip that the new 2 Series would, in fact, send its power to the aft. But hold onto your teacups, kids, it gets better.

BMW has also filed for a patent for the M2 moniker.

Now, we know as well as anyone that a patent doth not a production vehicle make, but it's still exciting to know that BMW isn't walking away from the notion of a smallish, fun-to-drive model anytime soon. Supposedly the company is planning a rash of models positioned below the current 1 Series to help decrease its corporate average fuel economy, but the news of a rear-wheel drive model with an M badge on the back goes a long way toward salving any ails inflicted by the thought of a front-wheel-drive Bimmer.

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/10/25/b...rive-2-series/

GS3Tek

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nice, all we need is a 4, 9, and 10 series and BMW is set

then they'll conquer the a, b, c ....series

GSteg

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Actually Mercedes is winning that war right now

Koma

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So the 2 series is in what class and competes with what? B-series?

Or is BMW creating another stupid niche class?

ABC

You can patent names? Did they mean trademark?

Mister Two

Aww I was so looking forward to the 0-series. Well maybe we'll hear about it next month.

GS3Tek

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why wait, it's already here

LexFather

Future news "85% of 2 series drivers thought their car was FWD"

Slvr surfr

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My thoughts exactly. All they need to do is resurrect an 8 series and its a lock!