4 cylinder engines?

Hope this doesn't count as an illicit crosspost, but I found this in the "General BMW" forum

http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...57&postcount=1

Originally Posted by davids540i

So this may have already been predicted or assumed would happen at some point, but it looks like BMW will "officially" be bringing 4-cylinder variant gasoline engines to the US (perhaps with twin-turbos and hopefully diesel versions as well).

See article from AutoWeek:
http://www.autoweek.com/article/2009...FURT/909169995

(and here's hoping it will make it over in 5-door hatchback form)

The article that's linked to says they're looking at bringing 4 cylinder gasoline engines for X1 and X3 (and 3 series) into the US. What I'd really like to see would be 4 cylinder diesels in the small SAV's, but the article only mentioned gasoline engines.

Never thought I'd see this happen. Had a 4 cylinder 2002 many years ago, but I thought BMW had abandoned the 4 cylinder market in the US to go more upscale.

Had a 'deuce back in the day. Notable for a couple of things, headgasket problems, choke problems (it was an early automatic choke-not well sorted out) and the best of all, having to stop, raise the hood, and turn on/off the heater! I was too lazy to run a new control wire. A car that equalled or bettered it was the contemporary Ford Cortina GT. A very hot little European Ford that was almost as hard to get parts for as it was for the early BMW's.

It's unlikely that the X3 will see a 4-cylinder engine. Everyone already thought the 2.5i was too slow.

BMW has suggested that any 4-cyl that comes over will be turbocharged, so don't expect 118i-like fuel consumption.