Written by coream at 9/07/2009 10:41:00 PM BMW has been actively researching – and producing – cars that deliver the kind of driving experience for which the Bavarian automaker has become famous while utilizing less resources than ever before... And the company will unveil its new centerpiece for the program – called Vision EfficientDynamics...

The space age design speaks for itself, but under the hood BMW has paired a 163hp 1.5-liter three-cylinder turbodiesel with a plug-in electric motor and a dual clutch transmission... The result, according to the Bavarian engineers, is a 4.8-second run to 60 while returning 62.6 miles per gallon...