Comments on: Obama Announces New Fuel Economy Standards – Where does BMW stand?

By: BMWLAH Blog - Bloomberg: BMW May Use 4-Cylinder Engines in the U.S.

BMWLAH Blog - Bloomberg: BMW May Use 4-Cylinder Engines in the U.S. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:45:09 +0000

[...] President Obama announced the new fuel economy standards in the U.S., we wrote aninteresting article in which we pointed out some of the reasons why BMW is and will be positioned well for the 2012 [...]

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By: Alexander Phillippe

Alexander Phillippe — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:42:05 +0000

How sure is everybody that this announcement effects ALL cares and not just the FLEET AVERAGE? BMW already has an incredible fleet average, over half of their cars get >25mpg. I must be the first to say though, if this means the end to large displacement engines with 8+ cylinders, I will be mad.. and sad.

We’ve already seen a lot of hurt in the auto industry *cough*GM*cough* but I never thought I’d see the Viper go. Now Chrysler has no sports car… unless you want to consider the Challenger a sports car. What could’ve been a great source of revenue for GM was the G8 GXP, and possibly a new Firebird if Lutz knew what he was doing. Eh, oh well, I’m gonna go back to being insensible and pretending that all fun cars are now dead.

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By: Giom

Giom — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:32:17 +0000

What I would like to know, is how far off is BMW from these 2012 figures? I do know that their combined range of cars are the most efficient cars in the world -by quite a margin.

Does this mean they will rest on their laurels… not likely.

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