Today, at the Washing Motorcar Show, BMWNA CEO Jim O'Donnel spoke to the printing about the hereafter of BMW in the United States. Among many other information, which tin can be found below, O'Donnel confirmed new TwinPower 4-cylinder engines will arrive in the U.S. marketplace before year-terminate.

"We volition before long announce what vehicles will characteristic this dynamic new turbo 4-cylinder in the United states of america. And, they will arrive before twelvemonth-stop. We invite you to stay tuned", said BMWNA CEO Jim O'Donnel.

Last week, BMW made the headlines of many automotive publications with the announcement of their new iv-cylinder TwinPower two.0 liter engine. Dubbed N20, the engine volition be get-go used in the new X1 xDrive28i and produces 245 horsepower and 350 Nm of torque (258 lb of torque).

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The engine can be matted to a half dozen-speed manual transmission or a viii-speed automated transmission.
In Europe, the BMW X1 xDrive28i equipped with this engine is expected to offer a fuel consumption of 7.nine liters/100 km and has CO2 emissions of 183 chiliad/km.

We anticipate an X1 an X3 model to be offered here with the new engine, along with the next generation one Series and Z4 Roadster. Other models, but less likely, are the new 3 Series vehicles which volition debut in 2012.

Jim O'Donnel, BMWNA CEO Spoken language

Good morning and thank you lot for joining united states.

It's always skillful to come to Washington considering we in the auto industry and regime both have an essential role to play in enabling the precious freedom of mobility to thrive well into the future. I'yard happy to say, we recognize and support this partnership and nosotros accept been delighted by the Obama Administration's "work with" approach to do the aforementioned. Together, nosotros can define and observe answers to the most pressing challenges that volition impact the hereafter of mobility.

But there's one other vital party in this partnership as well, and that'south the American consumer. Ultimately, he and she volition define what the successful solutions will be because they vote with the most powerful tool of all – their pocketbooks.

Today, I'd similar to accept merely a few minutes of your fourth dimension to provide some insight into how we at BMW are working to proceed this partnership alive and moving forward.

Some volition tell y'all they have THE solution. We believe the solution to consumers' transportation needs will vary depending on where you live, your personal driving needs, and your social and political outlook. That's why nosotros believe, when it comes to bulldoze system applied science, information technology'due south far besides early to pick "winners" and "losers". Nosotros nonetheless need to pursue solutions on a multitude of fronts. Take electric vehicles for just 1 instance. Sure, an enormous amount of buzz and attention has recently been generated due to the introduction of two very good new vehicles in the market. Just will either prompt a major sales shift in the near term? Doubtful.

After all in the Us, even subsequently xv years, hybrid vehicles still represent less than 3 percent of the market. Just does this mean none of united states of america should proceed with electrical vehicle development? Not at all, and I'll speak to our efforts in a infinitesimal. Still, we all have to share the goal of developing these new generation vehicles for more than than just the early adopters among u.s.. We accept to find a way to tap into the mainstream of American consumers without as well much help from US taxpayers.

At BMW we believe our contributions to the hereafter of mobility provide a unique opportunity in this area. Both our MINI and BMW brands take potent and clearly distinct personalities. Our cars are fun to drive and we are proving that fuel efficiency and reduced emissions don't have to cancel out passion. At the end of the twenty-four hours Americans buy vehicles based in large part on emotion – what turns them on, what their families dear, and what they feel practiced about driving. These emotions are going to be needed every bit every bit much in the future to stimulate sales of a new generation of highly efficient, sustainable and unlike sized vehicles every bit much equally the rational values of loftier fuel efficiency, low emissions and reduced reliance on foreign oil.

BMW with its innovative thinking and technology is shaping the future of mobility – the cars of the futurity, how they look and how they run.

Let me give you a few examples most how nosotros're taking this walk into the future.

Start and foremost, at BMW, it means that our cars must fulfill the promise of The Ultimate Driving Motorcar.

Some might view this as a conflicting task, merely nosotros look at this as an opportunity….because of our unique position as a premium brand and our dedication to remain an innovator in the industry.

When it comes to improving efficiency and reducing emissions, as an manufacture we accept already plucked much of the low-hanging fruit. In the future, drivers will play a more active office with technologies within their control similar engine end/kickoff. I of the first models in the Us to accept BMW'due south Stop-Offset system, is the M3. Why would nosotros do this on such a burn-breathing machine? Because if we can demonstrate you can save fuel in an M3 without compromising the excitement one single bit, why non?!

We come across technologies that enable this level of commuter engagement playing a greater role in the time to come. This is not different what we've already seen on the safe side, where the risk of injury or ejection in a crash is greatly reduced by the uncomplicated act of buckling your seatbelt.

Here'south some other area where we maintain – and maybe fifty-fifty enhance the joy of a BMW while however improving efficiency. The BMW X5 enjoyed a 27 percent increase in sales in 2010. Simply, our X5 Avant-garde Diesel model sales were upward 73 percent! Every one of these vehicles improved fuel efficiency on average more than than twenty percent and provided better CO2 performance as well. In fact, nearly one in 4 X5s sold in 2010 were diesels. Sales of our 335d sedan were upward 130 percent over 2009 and you'll run into more BMW Advanced Diesel models from u.s.a. in the future.

Like others, we are working on hybrid technology. We currently offer 2 hybrids on the marketplace now with more coming, including a production version of the Concept Vision EfficientDynamics sports car. Y'all won't see many hybrids similar this 1, and it may but help redefine what a sports car should exist in the time to come. Our work on hydrogen power continues. We accept been developing hydrogen power for more than 30 years because we believe it has enormous long-term potential, but without the infrastructure our program is on concur.

And aye, our electric vehicle development strategy will enter its second phase later this year. Our outset stride along this path was the MINI E. This was the outset electric vehicle in America that attracted a statistically relevant group of Americans, in our two mega cities – metropolitan New York and Los Angeles, to utilise electric vehicles in the drivers' daily lives. As a result, nosotros were able to gather valuable feedback in order to assist guide our continued evolution of this important applied science. Data gathered from our ongoing MINI East field trial, which began in 2009, has enabled usa to make crucial refinements to the technology. Nosotros provided an insight to this data here at the Washington Automobile Evidence last year. The refinements they prompted will make their way to the streets afterward this year in the adjacent stage of our electric vehicle evolution, the BMW Active E, which volition exist available for charter in an expanded group of markets including metropolitan areas of New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and San Diego besides as the state of Connecticut.

The third step of our EV strategy – and most ambitious – is a fresh new concept of urban mobility. We telephone call it for the time beingness the Mega City Vehicle and its purpose is to provide a fresh solution to developing a vehicle that meets the needs of the globe's well-nigh populated urban centers – exactly where the majority of population growth will be in the side by side xx years. And it volition be an electric vehicle with a difference.

THIS third pace will come to fruition in 2013 with the Megacity vehicle, an outgrowth of Project i, which started with a clean sail of paper concentrating on how to conceive, design, develop, and build a true sustainable vehicle for the world's most populous urban markets. Special emphasis is on lite weight, compact size, and electric ability.

It will exist designed and congenital from the footing up around an electrical motor and battery cell engineering science that has been developed in-house. Its all-aluminum frame will bear the intermission, battery and electric motor, and will exist surrounded with a carbon cobweb body structure. Nosotros are currently partnering with a leading carbon manufacturer, SGL Group, to produce carbon fiber in a new constitute in Washington State, which will allow united states to offer a lightweight but safety passenger compartment. The institute itself symbolizes the revolutionary attribute of the clean sheet of newspaper approach….it was selected because it is 100 percent powered past hydro-electricity.

The Megacity vehicle will be dissimilar anything else on the road…..with one notable exception. It will share the classic pattern and dynamic values of the BMW brand. This will also exist the offset vehicle to carry a new BMW sub-brand proper noun.

Nosotros desire to prompt a broader dialogue most this new future of mobility then we commissioned a four-part online documentary series chosen "WHEREVER YOU Desire TO Become: Four Films almost the Future of Mobility". The first installment volition debut at www.BMWActivate theFuture.com side by side Tuesday, February 1st. Iii additional installments will debut throughout the month of Feb. In fact, I have a trailer for the series I'd like to share. (Show it now)

I'd similar to finish with a near-term activeness. We know there is withal groovy potential for the continuing development of the internal combustion engine. Our insight tells united states that this will however be the propulsion choice for between 85 and 95 percent of the world's vehicles in the yr 2020. So we continue to concentrate our innovation on making every new generation of BMW gas and diesel engines more efficient, cleaner, and ameliorate performing than the 1 that preceded it.

For example, the first BMW engine to use turbocharging and loftier-force per unit area straight injection was our twin-turbo 3.0-liter inline six which was introduced in 2006. This engine offered the performance of a much larger V8, but with greater efficiency. Today that engine powers the new 740i, the first vi-cylinder BMW 7 Serial offered in the US in nearly xx years. Its functioning is on par with the previous-generation V8 750i merely with an eleven-percentage comeback in fuel-efficiency. To illustrate how adept it is, the 740i but won a seven-automobile comparing test in Motor Trend magazine against mostly V8 competitors.

Twin-turbo power, combined with loftier-pressure direct inject propel two of our newest models on display today, the new 650i Convertible and, the latest from the folks at BMW M, the 1 Series Grand Coupé.

A newer generation of turbocharged inline half dozen was introduced terminal year in our 3 Serial and v Series vehicles. Information technology further improved fuel efficiency by ten percent only has the same horsepower and torque.

And this brings me to an announcement I'm pleased to brand today which represents a farther advocacy of our gasoline engine technology. For the first time in more than a decade, BMW will once again offer a four-cylinder engine in the Us.

Like our newest 3.0-liter turbocharged inline six, which merely won a Ward'due south 10-All-time Engine Award, this new four-cylinder engine represents our current state-of-the-art engine technology. It combines twin-gyre turbocharging with both high-pressure level straight injection and Valvetronic intake control. It is lighter and more compact than vi-cylinder engines of comparable power.

With 240 horsepower and 260 lb-ft of torque, it offers more power and torque than our normally aspirated 3.0-liter inline half dozen and most importantly, provides the archetype BMW combination of power, refinement and pure driving pleasure.
Nosotros will shortly announce what vehicles volition feature this dynamic new turbo 4-cylinder in the The states. And, they will arrive earlier year-cease. We invite you to stay tuned.

As y'all can run across we have a lot going on in a wide variety of areas for the futurity. In all of these developments rest assured that any vehicle wearing a BMW Roundel will be worthy of being chosen The Ultimate Driving Machine.

Give thanks yous.