According to the Australian website, BMW may apply the change in the naming convention to its models to better identify its all-electric models. Drive.
The website cites a BMW insider, whose display name is ‘ynguldyn’, as saying that the German manufacturer will soon remove the ‘i’ suffix from the models’ badges, which previously denoted the presence of a gasoline engine, specifically a gasoline engine. fuel injection system. In contrast, the suffix ‘d’ indicates the use of a diesel engine.
Regarding the upcoming models, ‘ynguldyn’ stated above snack forum that the successor of convertible 118i will be named the 118 and the M Performance variant, the M135i will then become M135. There’s a sort of disclaimer, which says “it remains to be seen whether the same thing happens to all future models.”
In March, the German brand is said to have registered 48 trademarks for upcoming model names, according to XeBuzzand the new nameplate has the prefixes i, X and iX. In terms of powertrain type denotation, the prefix i will denote models with all-electric powertrains and those without which will continue to have an internal combustion engine, such as the examples shown below. listed above.
For example, when future internal combustion engine models won’t have the i suffix, EV models will take the i prefix to denote the use of an electric powertrain, such as the i120 denoting 2 Electric series, i330 is a EV3 . Seriesi550 one 5 . currentand such.
By extension, electric SUV models will be identified with the iX prefix, such as the iX540 which is the electric X5, the iX550 which is the more powerful version of the aforementioned model, and so on, the report claims.
By this logic, an exception in today’s BMW model lineup is iX electric SUV. Currently, the different variations in the iX range are indicated by their suffixes, starting with xDrive40or xDrive60 is the top performance iX. How the iX will be positioned within BMW’s future range remains to be seen.
