M avoided AWD passenger cars only because they did not need them in order to compete - not because of some dogmatic commitment to RWD. Believe that if an AWD C63 were here ten years ago, then you'd have an AWD M5 long ago as well.
There will be zero FWD M cars for sure, but there will be many AWD M cars. Two generations from now, all of them might very well be, in fact. There is nothing holding Back a UKL M offering but time to develop the appropriate chassis and powertrain. The platform will absolutely accommodate it.
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Originally Posted by ynguldyn
As opposed to AMG (who are like street walkers in comparison), M GmbH is very deeply rooted in tradition. It took them a whole generation to agree to start making X5M and X6M (and only because it was obvious they would become huge money makers in the Middle East and Russia). The higher power Ms like M5 and M6 have been asking for AWD for years now - F90 in 2018 will be the first one to get it. Of course, a FWD M is possible at some point too, but it will take the M people a long time to agree to do it, and the current platform is likely not good enough anyway. Maybe an "M performance" something will eventually come out, but I will be really surprised if a "proper M" car in FWD is produced before we get the next iteration of UKL (G40?).
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