最近，下一代宝马1系掀背车合成图曝光，新一代1系将在2017年底或2018年初发布。从图片看，新车比现行版更精致，这辆更成熟的五门掀背车的很多元素都取自比它更大的同宗兄弟。除了外观风格改变，新车将与2系Active Tourer共享UKL平台。这意味着，新车将不再像现行版那样采用后轮驱动，而是前轮驱动，但某些版本可选装xDrive全驱系统。1系掀背车不会是1系家族中第一款采用前轮驱动车型，今年晚些时候发布的1系轿车也将采用前驱系统。目前还不清楚，1系轿车是否会投放至全球市场。宝马一直表示，1系轿车仅供中国市场，不过，也不排除该车进入欧美市场的可能性，如果在欧洲销售，1系轿车将成为奔驰CLA和奥迪A3轿车竞争车型。

 

Next-generation BMW 1 Series speculatively rendered

Our friends and colleagues at OmniAuto.it are already thinking about the next-generation 1 Series which they have speculatively rendered.

 

A brand new 1 Series hatchback won’t come out sooner than late 2017 / early 2018, but even so OmniAuto decided to try and predict the future by rendering the car.

 

The proposed design is more refined than the current 1 Series and shows a more mature five-door hatchback with styling cues adapted from its bigger brothers. Styling aside, the new 1 Series will be vastly different than the current car as it will ride on the UKL platform shared with the 2 Series Active Tourer. This means it will eschew the current RWD setup in favor of a FWD layout, but select engines will be optionally linked to the xDrive system.

 

It should be mentioned the hatchback won’t actually be the first 1 Series-labeled model to get a front-wheel-drive system as the 1 Series Sedan due later this year will have it. However, it’s unclear at this point whether the sedan will be a global model. BMW keeps saying it’s a China-only affair, but probably it will be sold in North America and in Europe as well to compete with the Mercedes CLA and Audi A3 Sedan.