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In Reply to: too bad, pretty spy shots on (more) posted by Rick Key on December 20, 1999 at 12:21:15:
: www.automedia-online.com/e_spion.htm
: Looks like a winner. Any info on the compact/compact M or 2 series? I have not heard anything in months on either of them and with the big shakeup in top management at BMW I wonder as to the direction. Now that Ford and VW know all of BMWs future plans will they be altered? Are these new people "car guys" or "bean guys"? Just a tidbit - did anyone see the interview with the one of the GM heads in Automobile mag (I think)? They asked him about "car guys" at GM and he asks back "I dont understand the question, what are "car guys"" ... ouch ... no wonder GM (US) only makes a couple of decent cars.
The Rover disaster has killed a lot of cool BMW projects (the new 6er and a new '02 to name 2). Hopefully they can turn around Rover so it is not just hemorrhaging cash (Rover lost $1B in the first half of 1999). The new CEO of BMW (Joachim Milberg) was the machine shop foreman (I forget exactly what his job before was). Wolfgang Reitzle did not fit the typical German image that BMW wanted to portray, but he was the most obvious choice for the new CEO of BMW. Since he didn't get that position he left for Ford (FYI- he was offered the CEO position of Porsche in 1992 but was not let out of his BMW contract- I guess he assumed, as would I, that he was going to be the next CEO of BMW...such a shame he is no longer at BMW.)
The new 2 is dead. An M compact from what I have heard is a go. Although it will be an "entry-level M car" (not my words :-)
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