Citing unnamed sources from within the brand, Britain’s Car Magazine reported on Tuesday that BMW is seriously entertaining the idea of renaming the next generation of its two-door 1- and 3-Series models into the 2- and 4-Series respectively.
The new badges would be applied on the two-door coupe and convertible as well as the sportier GT fastback models of the future 1- and 3-Series lineup.
As some of you may recall, this is not the first time that BMW has toyed around with the thought of turning the 3-Series coupe and convertible into the 4-Series, with the Bavarian company coming very close to executing the idea in the beginning of the new millennium.
The British magazine said BMW officials had then withdrawn the plan “on the eleventh hour” because of fears that a split in the registration numbers would hurt the brand’s image.
Audi follows a similar path naming the sportier A4-based and A6-based variants as the A5 and A7 respectively. Mercedes, on the other hand, tried to use different names for its coupe and convertible models but recently returned to its older naming system simply adding a Coupe and Convertible moniker to its C- and E-Class derivatives.
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