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According to foreign media reports, BMW M is planning a new performance car model, which will be completely redesigned and will not be based on any existing BMW models.

According to foreign media reports, Markus Flasch (Marcus Frazi), the head of BMW M, who attended the X3M and X4M press conference in New York, said in an interview that BMW M department will expand its product line and is developing an independent M Power model that is "not based on the ordinary version of BMW". It already has a basic concept, and there are no other details to be disclosed, because the project is still in its early stages.

A source close to M told the media that a variety of shapes are being analyzed. In addition, engineers are trying to figure out whether the new car should be equipped with an internal combustion engine or a pure electric power system. "No matter what form it takes, a new independent M car must be in line with our personality, 'accurate, flexible and luxurious,'" Frazier said.

This idea will be of unique significance because M performance has never launched an independently designed performance model before. The launch of this model obviously has a strong independent design capability against the Mercedes-Benz AMG department.

The BMW M-Series has always been popular with fans of performance cars, but rookies will easily regard M3 and M5 as ordinary 3-Series and 5-Series. Although they say, "understand people naturally understand", the psychological gap is inevitable.

All existing BMW M-series are upgraded based on ordinary models sold by BMW, and the last time they did a separate M model was the BMW M1 in 1981.

It doesn't matter how the car will eventually be positioned, because we all know that it will be the purest high-performance car in the new generation of BMW, because we already have the new energy line of the I8. at least we don't have to worry about it suddenly turning into an electric car when it shows up.

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