In car news, the head of BMW R&D had this to say today about the company’s future...
“On the diesel side, production of the 1.5-liter, three-cylinder entry engine will end and the 400-hp, six-cylinder won’t be replaced because it is too expensive and too complicated to build with its four turbos. However, our four- and six-cylinder diesels will remain for at least another 20 years and our gasoline units for at least 30 years.”
It is interesting to consider that BMW, in its refusal to fully dive into electrification, might just be embracing typical German cold-eyed realism, since even in Europe fully-electric cars still only represent a single-digit percentage of the market.
The internal combustion engine ain’t dead yet!