BMW News
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The entire BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo range will get the option of xDrive all-wheel drive.
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Gallery: BMW Celebrates Five Generations Of The 5-SeriesThe 2011 BMW 5-Series marks the sixth generation of the iconic full-size luxury sedan.
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BMW Builds One Millionth 1-SeriesWhen the BMW 1-Series was first unveiled back in 2004, many predicted the car to be a flop and something to be shunned by the brand’s faithful. Instead, the 1-Series has turned out to be a success story for BMW, with more than one million units built since launch. In fact, the BMW 1-Series has...
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BMW Remains Best Selling Luxury Automaker For First Three Months Of 2010Earlier this week we reported that Audi had overtaken Mercedes-Benz in sales for the first time ever but when it comes to the best selling luxury automaker in the world, BMW remains on top. While Mercedes-Benz finished the first quarter of the year with 248,500 sales and Audi with 264,100, BMW came...
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Spy Shots: BMW Hydrogen Hybrid MINI PrototypeThe car is running under a 1-Series mule platform, but is believed to be going to MINI.
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BMW Goes Retro: Classic Motorsports Division, Concorso d'EleganzaThe BMW Group is digging deep into its heritage for the Concorso d'Eleganza and a new Classic Motorsports division.
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BMW is partnering with carbon-fiber and composites expert SGL Group to build a new manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Washington that will specialize in lightweight carbon-fiber products for the automotive industry--BMW's upcoming Megacity vehicle. For those who don’t know, the Megacity vehicle, which will be launched under a sub-brand during the first half of this decade, will employ a vast array of lightweight composite materials to enable its super-low emissions goals. Costing more than $100 million and creating some 80 local jobs, the new plant will ensure that a key piece of the...
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Spy Shots: 2011 BMW X3New spy shots of the latest 2011 BMW X3 prototype testing in Germany indicate the automaker may be moving the crossover's development forward to match the competition. Previous reports had indicated that the current BMW X3 would have to soldier on for a few more years until an all-new model could...
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Video: BMW Z4 GT3 Runs The NurburgringThe first lap of the new BMW Z4 GT3 race car around the Nurburgring's Nordschleife.
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Video: 10 Minutes Of Sonic Fury With The E30 BMW M3The sounds of this video are enough to induce a state of autophilic euphoria.
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BMW Makes HD Radio Standard Across 2011 LineupWith the launch of the new 2011 BMW 5-Series Sedan this May, for the first ever BMW’s entire lineup will be equipped digital HD Radio as standard. For anyone unfamiliar with HD Radio, superior sound quality is one of its significant benefits, along with access to thousands of channels including...
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Britney Breaks Up With Mercedes, Keeps Creepy Agent/BoyfriendEvery time we see Britney Spears, our interior monologue starts singing nursery rhymes. Example: Little Brit-Brit in that car, How we wonder what you are! Do you come from Crazytown? Or are you playing us for clowns? Either way, you're making bank, You bleached-out, tuneless, redneck skank. Maybe...
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Due to demand from Asian markets, where many 5-Series cars are used as chauffeur driven limos, BMW has released a new long-wheelbase version of its popular luxury sedan. The new 2011 BMW 5-Series Long-Wheelbase has been designed and developed exclusively for the Chinese car market and will make its official debut next month at the 2010 Beijing Auto Show. Designing the car was not simply a process of adding a couple of extra inches to the wheelbase. Individual design features along the roofline and the side view of the car ensure that the long-wheelbase version with its wheelbase up by 5.5...
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2010 New York Auto Show CoverageThe 2010 New York Auto Show turned out to be one of the most exciting and product-filled North American shows so far this year, with the industry bootstrapping itself out of the depths of 2008 and 2009. With nearly as many new cars, concepts and special editions as Detroit and Chicago combined, it...
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Report: BMW M6 May Be Replaced By New Super-Sports CarBMW’s next 6-Series is just around the corner and while we can be certain there will be a new Coupe and Convertible, there’s a chance that the M6 variants may not make a return for the new generation. We know that BMW is working on a new high-end sports car based on its Vision...
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2011 BMW Alpina B5 spy shotsAlpina's range of souped-up, custom BMWs is the stuff of legend. Since the late 1970s the custom house has taken on the best of the BMW lineup, including the 3-Series, 6-Series, 7-Series, 8-Series and the Z1, Z4 and Z8 roadsters, as well as the 5-Series, the latest version of which, the 2011 Alpina...
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Is Ashley Tisdale Really Short, Or Is She Just Embarrassed By The BF's BMW?Ashley Tisdale may be totally fine flaunting her celebutante Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen, leaving it out on the street for hours at a time, but put her in a BMW, and missy loses the fancypants right quick. See the pic at the link below? That's her in a BMW 3-Series, being driven around by current beau...
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2011 BMW 5-Series Sedan Priced From $50,475The new single-turbo six-cylinder 535i and V-8 550i sedans cost $50,475 and $60,575, respectively.
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BMW will be expanding its performance lineup at next week’s 2010 New York Auto Show with the launch of the all-wheel drive variant of the Alpina B7 sports sedan. Joining the regular B7, the all-new 2011 BMW Alpina B7 xDrive, as it’s officially titled, will again be offered in standard- and long-wheelbase editions, and will enjoy the low-speed traction advantages that only xDrive all-wheel drive can provide. Apart from its intelligent all-wheel drive system, the Alpina B7 xDrive is virtually identical to the regular B7 that made its debut at February’s 2010 Chicago Auto Show...
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2011 BMW 5-Series, X5 And 3-Series Coupe And Cabrio Headed To New YorkAt next week’s 2010 New York Auto Show several 2011 model year BMWs will make their official North American debuts, including the all-new 2011 5-Series plus the facelifted 2011 X5 and 3-Series Coupe and Convertible. Also on show will be a new all-wheel drive variant of the high-performance...
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BMW Working On New Engine Family, Three-Cylinder Units PlannedBMW CEO Norbert Reithofer has revealed that the automaker is working on a new family of modular gasoline and diesel engines that will include a three-cylinder variant and eventually go into some 1.5 million cars, including both BMW and MINI models, per year. The family of engines will include...
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80 percent of BMW 1-Series owners think their car is front-wheel driveLast week’s announcement that BMW is planning to launch a new entry-level model with a front-wheel drive powertrain would certainly have had some brand purists spewing, but for the large majority of new car buyers it would appear that it doesn’t matter which wheels are doing the driving...
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Report: Next-Gen BMW M3 Goes Six-Cylinder, Drops SedanThe next-gen F30 BMW M3 will not have the eight-pot engine found in the current car.
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BMW To Supply Diesel Engines For Carbon Motors Police CarsIn what is sure to go down as one of the strangest partnerships of the year, BMW has signed a deal with American law enforcement vehicle manufacturer Carbon Motors to supply it with more than 240,000 diesel engines. The agreement calls for delivery of BMW inline six-cylinder turbodiesel engines...
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