BMW Announce Platform Sharing Agreement with Fiat Group

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Roger426

Dangerous move by BMW.

July 9, 2008 4:04 pm

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NaBUru38

Er, the smallest Alfa was the 147. Now there's also the Mito, but there's no way Mini will release a C-segment car. The only cars that may share their plaforms are the Mini and Mito.

July 9, 2008 4:17 pm

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Goldfinger

Why is it Dangerous? , you wait till BMW and Merc join together.

July 9, 2008 4:23 pm

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alessandro

It could mean things a lot of people are waitng so long - sport RWD-cars from Alfa, Lancia and may be from Fiat as well.

July 9, 2008 4:44 pm

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BENZian

Daimler researched just such an arrangement with Fiat seeking benefits for their Smart cars and the A & B class MB cars and found that Fiat would not be cost effective and in fact costs more to produce their small platforms...I don't see how BMW can make this work any better... If anything the only sharing has to be the Mini and 1 series and perhaps BMW selling engines to Fiat...other than that the only benefit I see is for Fiat...

July 9, 2008 4:50 pm

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danteskov

Smart move... because the compact car market is growing and growing and by achieving economies of scale in their production, this will bring better profits for both companies.

July 9, 2008 5:39 pm

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boyke69

besides the mini and alfa platform sharing, isn't it possible that alfa romeo is going to use the next 5-series' platform for the 169?

July 10, 2008 3:35 am

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odysseus

@boyke69 I think it's possible.

July 10, 2008 8:26 am

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PotatoEater

meanwhile, they argue about heritage, design, blah blah blah when at the end, they aren't even the ones whose money is being taken for such cars

July 10, 2008 11:26 pm

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People still buy Volvo's Saabs,Mazda/Ford,Jaguar, Audi's,Nissan/Renault, PSA., shared platforms for GM/Toyota for USA etc.,etc., and so it goes on. Technology,EU & ever increasing world govt regulations involve huge development costs and only way to contain these costs is through shared components.

July 15, 2008 1:00 am

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