BMW has quietly introduced when it’ll unveil its subsequent idea automotive. To make its first look through the BMW Group Annual Convention 2024, the following showcar will break cowl on March 21. Naturally, the German luxurious marque stays tight-lipped in regards to the car, solely saying it’s a “imaginative and prescient car on the Street to Neue Klasse.”

That is the half the place we start to take a position what it is perhaps. As a refresher, the unique Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse took the form of a sedan within the 3 Collection section when it premiered in September 2023 on the IAA Mobility present in Munich. Nonetheless, it’s a identified reality the primary manufacturing mannequin on the devoted electrical automotive platform might be a crossover. In reality, the Bavarian marque has already proven a totally camouflaged prototype of what’s going to ultimately substitute at the moment’s CLAR-based iX3.

Maybe we’ll see an idea automotive based mostly on the crossover prototype pictured above? One other sedan? Regardless of the case could also be, certainly, it’ll be a closer-to-production car contemplating the primary Neue Klasse-based mannequin will go into manufacturing in 2025. We’re listening to BMW will get the ball rolling in July 2025 at its new Debrecen plant in Hungary earlier than the sedan begins to roll off the meeting line in Munich in 2026. Different confirmed areas for NK-based fashions embrace Mexico and China.

What comes after the crossover and sedan? BMW is coy on particulars, though sources near the corporate have steered there might be an electrical 3 Collection Touring-like mannequin and even one thing alongside the strains of an iX4. There won’t even be a next-generation X4 with combustion engines since reviews state solely a pure electrical crossover-coupe mashup will carry this identify into the longer term.

At the very least six Neue Klasse fashions are scheduled to hit the market by 2028. These might be offered alongside the present crop of EVs based mostly on platforms initially meant for vehicles with combustion engines: FAAR for the iX1 and iX2 and CLAR for the larger fashions. It’s value noting that though BMW already sells a completely electrical 3 Collection Sedan, the i3 is barely accessible in China. The NK-based mannequin might be a world mannequin.

When you have a gentle spot for inner codenames, right here’s what we all know to date: “NA5” is iX3, “NA0” is i3 Sedan, “NA1” is i3 Touring, and “NA7” is iX4. As is the case with BMW’s crop of gasoline-fueled M vehicles, the recent fashions are getting their very own codenames: “ZA0” is M3 Sedan, “ZA5” is X3 M, “ZA1” is M3 Touring, and “ZA7” is X4 M.

When it comes to precise product names, the Munich-based marque has already introduced it gained’t mix “i” with “M” so don’t anticipate an iM3 or one thing to that impact when it arrives round 2027 with a rumored 700 horsepower.

Supply: BMW