{"id":29304,"date":"2022-08-16T00:47:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=29304"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:47:25","slug":"next-gen-bmw-m3-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=29304","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Next-Gen BMW M3 To Be the First M Electric Sportscar"},"content":{"rendered":"

It shouldn\u2019t come as much of a surprise that the next-generation of M3<\/a> will be electrified. That doesn\u2019t make it any less exciting news, though. When the BMW M3 goes electric, it\u2019s going to cause quite the stir among the fanbase. Thankfully, that stir should mostly be positive, according to what BMW M CEO Frank van Meel told Autocar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neue Klasse EV-First Platform<\/h2>\n

During a recent interview with Autocar, van Meel said that BMW\u2019s been gauging customer interest about electric M cars and the feedback has been encouraging. According to van Meel, \u201c90-95 percent [of customers] don\u2019t care what direction we take on powertrain.\u201d It seems that BMW fans only want an M car and aren\u2019t overly concerned what powers it, so long as it drives and feels like an M car.<\/p>\n

Any EV doubters should believe that, too. Since the BMW M3 debuted back in the late \u201980s, it\u2019s undergone three different powertrain changes: four-cylinder<\/a> to six-cylinder<\/a>, six-cylinder to V8<\/a>, V8 to turbocharged six-cylinder<\/a>. And with each new model, M3 sales have actually increased. So it\u2019s not as if the type of powerplant actually matters, so long as it delivers the goods.<\/p>\n

When the all-electric BMW M3 does debut, it will be based on the upcoming NK1 3 Series, an all-electric version of the 3 Series built on the Neue Klasse platform<\/a>. That alone should be exciting news, as the Neue Klasse platform is going to be lighter, stiffer, and better packaged than any current BMW platform, so it should make for a better building block for a high-performance M3.<\/p>\n

It may not have the wailing motorsport-inspired engines that power current M cars but it will deliver everywhere else while also being faster and more capable. And as much as some enthusiasts might bemoan a switch to electrification, the majority of fans have proven that they won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

[Source: Autocar<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It shouldn\u2019t come as much of a surprise that the next-generation of M3 will be electrified. That doesn\u2019t make it any less exciting news, though. When the BMW M3 goes electric, it\u2019s going to cause quite the stir among the fanbase. Thankfully, that stir should mostly be positive, according to what BMW M CEO Frank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}