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On August 8, BMW China officially released the official map of the new BMW 3-Series model, which has already appeared in the declaration list of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and is expected to go on sale at the 2022 Chengdu Auto Show on August 26. As a reference, the price of the current model is 29.39-409900 yuan.

As a mid-term modified model of BMW 3-Series, the new car has relatively great changes in appearance and interior. Combined with the latest official picture, the front face of the new car uses a more flat double kidney intake grille, the interior of the grille adds lattice elements, and the new car also uses a new style of angel eye LED headlamps, the daytime driving lights in the lamp cavity have become a more slender inverted "L" shape design, the size of the front encirclement has increased, and there is an L-shaped guide groove decoration on both sides, which is full of sports.

According to the previous declaration chart, the front face of the new car is divided into two models: the deluxe version and the sports version, the main difference lies in the different internal structure of the grille, in which the interior of the luxury version of the grille maintains the same straight waterfall structure as the current model, while the interior of the front grille of the sports version is filled with dot matrix chrome plating, while the shape of the headlights and the front enclosure is basically the same. In terms of size, the new car continues to provide standard axle version and long axle version, but the dimensions are further lengthened compared with current models, in which standard axle version is 4728/1827/1452mm, wheelbase 2851mm, long axle version is 4838/1827/1454mm, wheelbase 2961mm. In addition, the new car will be equipped with sidewind window trim, rear spoiler, intake grille, exterior rearview mirror housing, cruise sensor, front / rear bumper side sensor, etc. in addition, the new car will be equipped with sidewind window trim, rear spoiler, intake grille, exterior rearview mirror housing, cruise sensor, front / rear bumper side sensor, etc. new Ferris ash and coast blue will be added, and 18-inch 781 wheels will be removed for wheels.

The rear part of the car has not changed much, the new car taillight continues to use L-type smoked taillight, the internal LED light belt is "L" type, which is highly recognizable after lighting, and the net has changed from black plastic to chrome-plated dot matrix design. The size of the vent under the license plate frame is larger, and compared with the current BMW 3-Series, the new car is more severe and more recognizable.

The interior part is the biggest change in the new car, which removes the traditional family design and adopts the latest family design style, with an integrated layout of 12.3in LCD instrument and 14.9inch central control screen, and equipped with the latest iDrive 8 system. At the same time, the new car shift machine has become a more compact plucked shift lever, and the steering wheel and central control button area have also been completely designed.

In terms of power, the mid-term revamped BMW 3-Series comes with a 2.0T engine, but the power parameters of the three versions 320,325and 330have been adjusted. The power of the 320s has been increased from 115kw to 128kwt. The power of the 325s has been increased from 135kw to 150kw, and the 330s have been upgraded from 190kw to 200kw, with the engine model B48B20G. In terms of transmission, the new car is still equipped with a standard ZF 8AT gearbox and provides rear-drive and four-wheel drive systems.

The BMW 3-Series is a new generation of BMW Group car products. The BMW 3-Series was first launched in 1975 and has gone through seven generations of vehicle iterations. The current BMW 3-Series (standard axis version G20, long-axis version G28) was launched in June 2019, and was introduced into the domestic market by BMW brilliance, which is the seventh generation of the series, while the model exposed this time is a medium-term modification of the 3-series of this generation.

From the current domestic market, Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Audi A4L are competitors of BMW 3-Series, while the biggest competitor is still the newly replaced Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Whether the new BMW 3-Series can continue good market performance after listing? we wait and see.

As the sales responsibility of BMW, the BMW 3-Series is more outstanding in the same class. According to the data, BMW 3-Series sold more than 170200 vehicles in 2021, ranking first among luxury models of the same class, surpassing Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Audi A4L. In the first half of this year, BMW 3-Series sold 82175 vehicles, still ahead of Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Audi A4L, compared with 67226 for Mercedes-Benz C-Class and 73603 for Audi A4L.

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