{"id":39814,"date":"2023-01-07T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39814"},"modified":"2023-01-07T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T14:00:58","slug":"bmw-new-klasse-chassis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39814","title":{"rendered":"BMW’s Neue Klasse Architecture Doesn’t Share Any Parts From Previous Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"

BMW hasn\u2019t been shy about its upcoming Neue Klasse<\/a> (New Class) architecture. It\u2019s bringing back an old name for its new chassis (which I personally very much enjoy) but it\u2019s also doing the old name justice by truly making it all-new. During a recent roundtable meeting at the 2023 CES<\/a> (Consumer Electronics Show), BMW\u2019s head of development, Frank Weber, said that the Neue Klasse will share nothing from previous generations.<\/p>\n

That might sound a bit obvious but it\u2019s actually more radical of an idea than you might think. When automakers develop new chassis, most stuff is new. But there are some things that are carryover, like certain software bits, computers, and various other bits and bobs that you don\u2019t really ever see. However, that\u2019s not the case with Neue Klasse.<\/p>\n

\u201cElectric architecture, propulsion systems, battery cells, [the way we make] high voltage battery systems, electric machines; there is not a single component that we take from the generation before.\u201d said Weber.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s good news and important for the Neue Klasse, both technically and historically. When BMW first launched the original Neue Klasse series of cars in the 1960s, it was a revolutionary step for the brand. It ushered in all new cars that were nothing like BMW\u2019s previous generations of cars, hence the \u201cNew Class\u201d name. Those original Neue Klasse cars, such as the 1600 and 2002, helped usher in a new era of BMW and made the brand famous on a global scale.<\/p>\n

So now that BMW is coming out with a new New Class, it needs to truly be all-new and not just some warmed over existing architecture. The Neue Klasse architecture is going to set BMW up for the future, much in the same way the original Neue Klasse did, so making sure that there aren\u2019t any carryover parts is important. Now we just need it to be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BMW hasn\u2019t been shy about its upcoming Neue Klasse (New Class) architecture. It\u2019s bringing back an old name for its new chassis (which I personally very much enjoy) but it\u2019s also doing the old name justice by truly making it all-new. During a recent roundtable meeting at the 2023 CES (Consumer Electronics Show), BMW\u2019s head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39815,"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-39814","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\/39814","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=39814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}