FEATURE
2017 INTERNATIONAL MOTORCYCLE SHOW REVIEW
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BMW's air-cooled boxer engine will survive…
"We will go on making the air-cooled engine, no question, and we will bring it to
Euro5 specification, which is beyond 2020. I can't say in which models…"
-Karl-Victor Schaller,
BMW's head of R&D.
BMW won't be making
small capacity models…
"It is not BMW's strategy to have
lots of volume in the small capacity
segment. We want to attract new
customers but we will not go 125cc
or lower. The G 310 is a 100 percent
BMW that attracts new customers
who may step up to our big bikes as
our main focus will remain the big
bikes above 500cc."
-Stephan Schaller,
President of BMW Motorrad.
Far from
reducing the air-
cooled Beemer
range, BMW
is expanding
it, much to the
delight of purists
everywhere.
The 310 GS
is as low
as BMW's
capacity will
ever go.
