According to BMW's established product plan, the 3 Series will usher in a mid-term redesign in 2022 and will be released together with the M3 station wagon that Bimmers have longed for. Recently, foreign media exposed a group of 3 series camouflage car spy photos that are undergoing winter testing.
According to BMW's Life Cycle Impulse (the official version of the mid-term redesign in the BMW system) plan formulated for the 3 series, the new car released in the future will be equipped with a new style of instrument panel along with the i4, iX and 2 series wagons, and the iDrive vehicle system will be upgraded. In the interior of the sedan and station wagon photographed in the spy photo, we can clearly see the dual screen design of the central control area.
In terms of appearance, it is expected that the front face shape will be fine-tuned, and the travel version and sedan will be replaced by sharp headlights. Old-school fans are pleased that non-M-power models will not be equipped with huge double kidney nets. The new style of front bumper adds air intake trim, and other cosmetic details may be hidden under the camouflage.
In a photo of a red sedan, it is not difficult to find that a charging port is installed on the fender on the driver's side, so the car may be a 330e model with a plug-in hybrid system, and the area covered by black tape on the charging port may be the logo representing the M appearance kit.
Previously we reported the i3 MIIT declaration map
In addition, with this mid-term redesign, the 3 Series will also launch a pure electric i3 model based on the long-axle model, after we have already reported the new car declaration information of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It is reported that this will be a regional limited model that is only available to the Chinese market. With the launch of the car, BMW will officially discontinue the all-electric model of the same name in July this year. As for the pure electric 3 series that supply the global market, it is afraid that the new generation 3 series based on the Neue Klasse platform (the new level, which was used for the platform architecture where BMW's milestone model 2002 is located) will not appear until 2025. According to gossip, the replacement model of the 3 series will use a dual platform, that is, the internal combustion engine model will continue to use the existing CLAR platform, while the pure electric model will be built based on the new platform.