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Rumormill: BMW 1 Series GT tipped for Parisian debut

How is it different?  They all look boringly the same.

Filed under: Wagon, Paris Motor Show, BMW, Rumormill

We know what you're thinking: Another day, another BMW bodystyle. Except this one's different.
The Bavarian automaker, much like its fellow German marques Audi and Mercedes-Benz, has exploded its product offerings with spinoffs of its established models. So the two-door 6 Series has bred a four-door GranCoupe version. The 5 Series, in addition to the sedan and wagon, has given us the oddly proportioned 5 Series Gran Turismo. But the upcoming 1 Series Gran Turismo is another kettle of fish in that it is not expected to share the small rear-drive platform with its recently revised namesake, but rather pack a new front-drive platform.
According to BMW Blog, the long-rumored 1 Series GT will finally make its debut next fall at the Paris Motor Show. When it does, the tall hatchback will be targeted directly at the Mercedes-Benz B-Class, slotting (in form at least) in between the existing 1 Series hatchback (pictured above) and X1 crossover. But if front-wheel drive isn't how you picture your BMW channeling its power, an all-wheel xDrive version is also tipped to be in the cards, as well as a hybrid model.

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Rumormill: BMW 1 Series GT tipped for Parisian debut
Noah Joseph
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:29:00 GMT

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Get Ready for the EQ-4 Global Hawk
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Press focus on Goodwin 'humbling'

Let’s be quite clear here.  The problem is self-serving, technically incompetent greedy BIG business such as banking that single handedly, through unbridled greed and without remorse created the mess that we the tax payer have to deal with in an economic environment where the impact of said BIG business has made us much worse off than we were.

For the Institute of Directors to conflate all endeavour as “business” as if it were homogenous is a travesty.  Many of my friends have their own businesses and operate ethically and responsibly, unlike BIG business, but now find it almost too hard to keep going as a result of the crisis.  Their livelihoods are now at risk.  Against this background who gives a shit if Fred Goodwin loses a Knighthood that he didn’t deserve and should never have received in the first place

Surely the role of the institute of Directors is to promote ethical, competent trading by businesses, not to whinge and whine about image.  Someone should explain the differences between criminal, unethical and incompetent to this august (?) body.  Surely they don’t really mean “do what you like as long as it’s legal” or do they?

I for one am utterly sick of the self-justification and greed.

Press focus on Fred Goodwin's 'humbling'

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:19:08 GMT