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.”
Profits are 62 percent down at the German automotive giant compared with last year. The firm has already confirmed that it’s stopped development work on the X7 SUV.
BMW now plans to focus heavily on Project I, its future plan to devise a new range of sustainable urban transport solutions.
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Re: BMW cancels CS
Unfortunately if they don't make sacrafices at this time then the manufacturers of the ultimate driving machine may ultimately be in real trouble.
Re: BMW cancels CS
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.
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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?