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BMW has cancelled its sleek CS four-door coupe in what’s being seen as the company’s latest response to the global car sales crisis.

The CS - which has already been previewed as a close-to-production concept car - would have shared a platform with the 7 Series.

Despite this, BMW boss Norbert Reithofer said the Mercedes CLS rival wouldn’t have met “internal requirements for rates of return.”

They may end up regretting this if the 4 door Lambo, Porsche and Aston Martin prove to be successful...

I guess its a shame they've cancelled the car. I just hope some of the styling cues make it onto other cars in the BMW line-up. This is Munichs' best looking car for years!

The cancelled CS is a shame - if only it made it to production instead of the X6

ethnotechnic3:

ethnotechnic3 wrote the following post at Wed, Nov 05 2008 8:42 PM:

The cancelled CS is a shame - if only it made it to production instead of the X6

 Agreed.  The CS was a car that could have generated some serious style interest in the BMW range.

Back in August, the cover of Autocar showed the BMW X6 and the Toyota Iq. One was the past, the other was the future. If the current financial crisis means the end of dinosaurs like the CS and the X6, it will have had some major benefits. I look forward to seeing the results of BMW's undoubted engineering excellence applied to new designs which are lighter, more economical, less polluting but above all, fun to drive. I wonder what an M Iq would look like?

First the M3 CSL cancelled and now the CS; shame.

Seems like the maker of the "ultimate driving machine(s)", isn't particularly concerned about ultimate driving machines at the minute.

Overdrive:

Seems like the maker of the "ultimate driving machine(s)", isn't particularly concerned about ultimate driving machines at the minute.

Unfortunately if they don't make sacrafices at this time then the manufacturers of the ultimate driving machine may ultimately be in real trouble.