{"id":2191,"date":"2021-01-10T00:41:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:05:29","slug":"bmw-could-go-smaller-than-the-mini-to-meet-eu-co2-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"BMW could go smaller than the MINI to meet EU CO2 rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bmw\/\">BMW<\/a> could attack the new EU carbon dioxide emissions limits by adding a tiny BMW-branded car to the lineup. The new model would likely share a platform with the British-built icon but be even smaller and wear the roundel badge and twin grille. <br \/>\n Such a car would help reduce BMWs fleet CO2 average but would also let the Bavarians compete more directly with the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/audi\/\">Audi<\/a> A1 that&#x27;s coming in 2009. If the car is built, it would be the first front-wheel drive car from the brand. MotorAuthority has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/cars\/bmw\/preview-2010-bmw-minicar\/\">rendering<\/a> of what such a car might look like based on cues from the recent CS concept.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: MotorAuthority]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/09\/02\/bmw-could-go-smaller-than-the-mini-to-meet-eu-co2-rules\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-09-02T09:05:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW could attack the new EU carbon dioxide emissions limits by adding a tiny BMW-branded car to the lineup. The new model would likely share a platform with the British-built icon but be even smaller and wear the roundel badge and twin grille.<br \/>\nSuch a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13117,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/13117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}