BMW UK Diesel Cull

[MarkJS]

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/bmw-sl...

I’m quite surprised by some of these cuts for the UK market - especially that there will no longer be any Diesel 4 Series available including the M440d. The petrol 430i is also gone and I’d have thought that both these engines would have sold pretty well (the 30i seemingly did according to the article).

[buggalugs]

I wonder if they don't want to spend the money on Euro 7 for all these engines going forward.

[Muzzer79]

The company car market, which is the bread and butter, is moving wholesale to Hybrid/EV. Nobody is buying diesels due to the tax implications thus.

Whether you think Electric propulsion is a good thing or not, it's an unstoppable train that is coming.

[S600BSB]

Shame about the 430i. I've got that engine in my F31 330i and I think it's great. Reasonable performance and reasonable economy.

[Court_S]

Muzzer79 said:

The company car market, which is the bread and butter, is moving wholesale to Hybrid/EV. Nobody is buying diesels due to the tax implications thus.

Whether you think Electric propulsion is a good thing or not, it's an unstoppable train that is coming.

This times lots; those who can make an EV work for them pretty much have to ignore ICE cars because of the tax implications. Add on the expanding clean air zones and it’s hard to see that many 30d’s still selling.

[GTEYE]

buggalugs said:

I wonder if they don't want to spend the money on Euro 7 for all these engines going forward.

Don’t think that’s the reason, these models all continue in Germany and France, I looked on their configurators.

A curious case of the U.K. it would seem and it’s obsessive green agenda against actual logic.

[rottenegg]

Muzzer79 said:

Whether you think Electric propulsion is a good thing or not, it's an unstoppable train that is coming.

Which is going to crash through the barriers and into a station not prepared for it. But we must keep pushing the green narrative at all costs.

[Locknut]

GTEYE said:

Don’t think that’s the reason, these models all continue in Germany and France, I looked on their configurators.

A curious case of the U.K. it would seem and it’s obsessive green agenda against actual logic.

Would you not consider that it could be something to do with Brexit?

Thanks to Brexit Germany and the EU are now a foreign country and their cars have to be imported into the UK.