BMW planning takeover bid for Volvo!! & greenie issues

hmmm...BMW to BMVV namechange on the cards?

m3sport wrote: I have to say, and take all the bad back regarding the S40.  After driving it now for 5 weeks, I LIKE IT.  lol.  Its great really, I now realise it has great handeling unlike i said before, and is a good car all around.

hmmmmmm - I feel a ban coming on!

Nigel wrote: You just keep your eye's peeled Simon, we don't want you being caught out by one of those fast Ford KA's

or even an 'over?

p.s. you know what a KA convertable is called?

a KAC of course!

In exactly what way has the 1series diluted the BMW image? I think it fits fine as a small rear wheel drive, driver oriented, car much in the 2002 style. Maybe the Xseries on the other hand...

The last Compact (E46) had the exact same driving dynamics as other E46's.

Larzyh.

BMW have alway produced reasonably priced cars, but with that certain "Driver's Car" ethos. The 1602 the E21 and the E30 were not particularly expensive cars. My issue with BMW is that it has become just another prestige brand. The 3series has become gradually larger and more expensive so the 1series makes sense in that context.

Larzyh.

635CSi wrote: Nostrils wrote: IIRC Ford own much if not all of volvo and its probably their way of finding more money to get them out of the hole they are in at the moment. The Ford Focus ST has the 5 cylinder Volvo engine which is why it sounds familiar to the older V70! Volvo have come a long way in modern times and are certainly catching up with the competition. BMW could be using Volvo to concentrate on newer combustion engines with so-called Bio fuels, the swedes are good at all this environmental stuff!! It's amazing how the S40 T5 has the same chassis and the exact same engine as the Focus ST, but drives nothing like it!! Biofuels aren't really revolutionary but they definitely make more sense than hybrids. I'm not into them really though, you would need to be wearing slippers and grow your own clothes to drive one!

the biofuels produce more bhp than petrol. saab are producing a 300bhp 2 litre 100% biofuel engine. the production of hydrids and the disposal produces a hell of a lot more co2 than ordinary petrol engines.

As I see it, bio-fuel's main advantages are sustainability and the lessening dependancy on fossil fuel.

With regards to "poor africans", there never has been a shortage of food in the world and there probably never will be; the problem is inequitable distribution of resources and that is unlikely to change.

I am considering converting my car to run on bio fuel - get some farmers back to the land and stop lining the pockets of some very dubious regimes in the Middle East.

Larzyh.