BMW 7 Series' Carbon Core more important that you might think - BMWBLOG (blog)
This kind of clever chassis engineering is going to help BMW tremendously in the future to continue building high-performance cars while also maintaining good efficiency. With the 7 Series’ architecture being shared with other future models, we will see an increase in performance, handling and efficiency across the entire BMW lineup. With BMW releasing such a chassis on a high-production road car, it will force other manufacturers to do the same. Audi is currently working on a replacement for the current A8 luxury sedan to compete with BMW’s 7 Series. You know Audi saw what BMW was doing and is working on something similar, so to not get left behind. Porsche will eventually follow suit, as will Volkswagen and Cadillac and on and on it will go. And because each automaker seems to be switching to these scalable and sharable architectures, once one car in their lineup uses such a chassis, the... So BMW is changing the game and pushing the bar higher. Source: www.bmwblog.com
