BMW 7 Series not available for one year: That’s why carmakers are desperate for the new emission regulations

03/21/2018

BMW 7er one year not available That’s why carmakers are desperate for the new emission regulations

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For a year, the BMW 7 Series is in Europe not available as gasoline engine – This sales convention for Munich’s flagship shocked fans of the premium manufacturer. Other models are not available for months, because BMW prepares its vehicles for its own specifications for new fuel consumption and exhaust emissions.

Not only BMW Show stock market chart is currently groaning under the new rules. Affected is the entire industry. The problems about which, for example, too Volkswagen Show stock market chart are apparently an indirect consequence of exhaust scandal, The legislature in Brussels suddenly puts more pressure on the manufacturers, after they were pampered for decades and built millions of cars with manipulated engines.

Now, the industry must quickly prepare all models for the new measuring cycle WLTP, which is intended to represent fuel consumption more realistically. To do this, all models once again have to complete a complex measuring procedure. Irrespective of this, the manufacturers are simultaneously obliged to equip many gasoline engines with a particulate filter. Only then will they be able to pass new, more stringent particulate matter measurements under real driving conditions (RDE).

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“Our test rigs are working at full capacity and working in three shifts,” a BMW spokesman told manager-magazin.de. It was also “complex”, particle filter “in the entire portfolio to accommodate”.

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Therefore, vehicles would first be brought up to date, which the company sells in large quantities. Delays are only affected models with lower sales figures. Bottom line, BMW will not sell significantly less cars, the manufacturer hopes as customers would switch to alternative vehicles of the manufacturer.

The measures are still painful. So takes BMW and the sports icon M3 temporarily out of the program. It would be too costly to convert the engine specifically for the installation of a particulate filter. Only after the new 3 Series from the fourth quarter of 2018 goes to the start, industry experts expect a low-emission M3.

Even with the 7 Series is the temporary off for gasoline is not trivial. Although only about 2000 of the affected vehicles were sold throughout Europe last year, according to BMW. However, this type of drive is currently in increasing demand because drivers fear driving bans on diesel cars. In Germany, the authorities have recently even more petrol 7er as a diesel.

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