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All good things must come to an end." That proverb has stood the test of time for centuries, and now we see its validity in the end of exclusively rear-wheel-drive BMWs after a ninety-year run (if you include motorcycles; just eighty-five years for cars). It's true that all-wheel drive became an option for some of BMW's cars twenty-seven years ago, but until the appearance of this Concept Active Tourer at Paris last year, there had never been a BMW-branded front-wheel-drive vehicle. And despite my fondness for the dynamics of longitudinal front-engine, rear-wheel-drive BMWs, all I can say is that it's about time.