BMW Is Negotiating With GM And Fiat On Cooperation

Motors and gearboxes for the competition: BMW is considering parts of its core competence to Fiat and General Motors to sell. A Erzrivale cooperation with Mercedes is planned - at least in the small car segment.

Munich - The engine of the BMW Mini daughter is already in the Peugeot - but now is about more than engines. In the future, other BMW parts under the hood of the competition run. The Munich Car Group plans its high-performance engines to General Motors
and Fiat to sell. According to Financial Times Deutschland is already in negotiations. Only yesterday the reduction BMW
of 8100 bodies announced.

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Above all, General Motors is the newspaper report says the Munich interesting because its own development of engines need years and very expensive. Already a few years, the GM subsidiary Opel BMW engine in the Omega model, and introduce to the market. With Fiat
that the cooperation especially in the Alfa Romeo models or Maserati interesting.
cooperation with BMW is for Fiat and GM probably therefore tempting because of the stricter emission regulations spritsparende cars need to develop. BMW has a head start.

Even with Daimler Erzrivale
BMW negotiated the FTD According to the joint development of drives and other components. This partnership was worthwhile, because both car-makers more in the small car segment penetrate. When compact car create the partnership, however, rather difficult. A cooperation for the A-and B-Class had already been discarded, as well as the development of a common platform for the 1er BMW. Both car makers also feared that a close cooperation to the character of the marks could be diluted.

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