If you are a motor head, you probably already know but in case you do not, BMW is planning to release a front wheel drive car in France during the Paris Motor Show in September. We know that most of you are probably wondering how true this rumor is.

Happily, Wagner BMW of Shrewsbury serving Shrewsbury , is here  to suss out the fact from the fiction.

Fact: BMW, to date, has never launched a front-wheel-wheel-drive (FWD) vehicle.

Fact: They might, according to Autocar, bring an AWD variant of the current 1 Series to market in 2014.

Operative  word and phrase…