Last month, a report by UK magazine Autocar mentioned that the 2 Series minivans will be canceled. The 2 Series Active Tourer and Gran Tourer were said to be on their way out, following an interview with Peter Heinrich, BMW product management vice-president.
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But BMWBLOG has learned in the meantime that it’s only the 2 Series Gran Tourer who will not be returning for a second generation. According to our sources, BMW has seen great success with the Active Tourer premium van and it’s already planning its successor.
Since their introduction in 2014-2015, over 400,000 were estimated to have been sold to European customers. Majority of those sales are attributed to the more stylish 2 Series Active Tourer.
Both vans shine in their intended role as “conquering machines” and, with over 70%, achieve the highest conquest rate among all vehicles produced by the BMW Group. No other BMW series vehicle is able to attract so many customers away from other brands to BMW than these vans based on BMW’s UKL platform.
With the facelifted model introduced in 2017, the second generation Active Tourer is likely to arrive in 2020-2021.
Quite surprising because the F40 1 took the place of the 2 AT
How?
Looks totally the same.
Same minivan platform and just look at the pricing. On the german BMW page the list price of the 2 AT is 250€ cheaper than the 1, which is not supposed to be a minivan… but it is.
It took the place of the F20 if im not mistaking :D this made me laugh
Hopefully BMW pay attention to A pillar design to get better visibility in front corners.
2 AT was a fail and the beginning of the end of the RWD. Don’t ever liked it.
Respectfully they sold almost half a million of them in five years, which is amazing for a vehicle that isn’t even offered in the US. You might not like it, but it’s definitely not a failure.
I have never driven any BMW that was less fun to drive than the 2 AT.
Don’t think it’s meant to be fun :)
We have the 225xe plug in hybrid 4 wheel drive. Its pretty nippy off the line.
No, please no.
2 Gran Tourer is also a high seller, but they’re still scrapping it.
New Active Tourer is known as U06, I believe
From 2014 to 2018 BMW have sold a bit more than 350 000 Active and Gran Tourer to the European market but not over 400 K in only 2 years.
352 030 to be specific
I dont like the 2AT to be honest thankfully they got discontinued in my country …dont like the 6gt either but oh well