BMW News

While Detroit has been abuzz with activity this week with debuts as the North American International Auto Show is taking center stage, a savory tidbit of news slipped through the cracks: The BMW M5, widely considered a favorite among pure drivers, will be offered with a six-speed manual transmission for ...    Read more

Audi has announced it will be adding more models to quell the U.S. market's demands for more sedans and SUVs. This will also help Audi in its chase to reel in the competition and fellow German auto makers BMW and Mercedes-Benz, who have been kings of the figurative hill in ...    Read more

BMW Announces Latest M in Partnership with K2 Corporation…and it's not what you're thinking. It doesn't have windows, four tires, or that coveted "M" logo stuck to back of the trunk. Still want one? Well, too bad because it's not for sale to the public, and it's not even a ...    Read more

In 2011, Automotive.com’s staff size increased 600 percent. We started our own revitalization, staking out where we were and where we are yet to go. To close out the year, we put together our picks for the high and low points that made up the automotive year that was 2011. From ...    Read more

Today's dose of awesome is brought to you by BMW. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a generic Christmas card, except that it comes under the influence of 560, twin-turbocharged horsepower. On a closed course, of course. The result is a work of art that would inspire the brightest ...    Read more

Habemus Papam! The finalists for the 2012 North American Car of the Year awards are out, and up for grabs this year are the Ford Focus, Hyundai Elantra and Volkswagen Passat. On the flip side, the North American Truck of the Year finalists are a diverse field: the BMW X3, the ...    Read more

The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety announced 115 recipients of its Top Safety Pick award. With 18 new vehicles joining the list for 2012, it’s especially surprising that 10 of them happen to be Honda models that have all been on sale for years now, showing the brand’s willingness to ...    Read more

BMW has made a rapid push to expand its portfolio of alternative fuel vehicles. Just weeks after signing an agreement with Toyota to license its hybrid technology, the German automaker is shaking hands with General Motors to share in ...    Read more

Is a coupe still a coupe when it has more than four doors? When that “coupe” just so happens to look like the 2013 BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe, the answer is probably not. The latest BMW to make its introduction, the 6 Series Gran Coupe is a car that not ...    Read more

When you think of BMW, you probably conjure images of carving up roads, whether by car or motorcycle. BMW making a Vespa scooter competitor almost seems unfathomable. Except that BMW has made just that, and it plans to sell its scooter lineup in the U.S. next year. But don’t get too ...    Read more

Whatever you can do I can do after... once I see positive sales data. That's the apparent company strategy out of Audi's Ingolstadt headquarters. Not to be outdone in the continuous rivalry between itself and BMW, Audi will make an SUV that will slot between its Q7 and Q5 models, ...    Read more

Land Rover's Range Rover Evoque is growing up so fast. The baby Rover was released into the wild back in October of this year, and Land Rover is already looking at ways to improve it. Land Rover jammed the Evoque full of the off-road capabilities the bigger Rovers receive, and ...    Read more

Zee German automakers and Chinese-owned Volvo all posted year-to-date double-digit sales for the month of November. Volkswagen took the lead with an increase of more than 25-percent compared to November 2010, with most of the sales drawn from the all-new 2012 VW Beetle and 2012 VW Passat sedan. The "newest" ...    Read more

Owners of the Chevrolet Volt have latched on to their cars and helped push the innovative plug-in hybrid to the top of Consumer Reports’ Owner Satisfaction Survey. The annual survey takes owners of cars made in the last four model years—in this case 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012—and asks them ...    Read more

As of Jan. 1, 2012, BMW is making a resolution to raise its prices ever so slightly to keep up with inflation. Blame the bad economy. Blame the Congressional super committee even. We know a mid-model year price increase is never cool, as most 2012 models have been at dealers ...    Read more

Odd Pairings sometimes work: David Bowie and Bing Crosby; chili and chocolate; a slice of cheddar cheese and apple pie; and the latest murmurs suggesting German automaker BMW is teaming up with Japan's Toyota to work towards a greener lineup. The two produce very good, but vastly different cars that ...    Read more

With continuing unpredictability of fuel prices, whispers of diesel returning to the United States on a wide spread basis are getting louder. Long gone are the days of the dreadful Volkswagen Rabbit and other vehicles that ran on diesel in the 1970's and 80's. As Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards ...    Read more

What's New Debuting at the Frankfurt Motor Show and already going through the automotive press throughout the world, all that was left for the 2012 BMW M5 super sedan was to show up for U.S. consumption. Finally, it has. With a debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show, BMW officially graces ...    Read more

What's New BMW may be labeling the i3 a concept car, but take away all of the glass in the doors, and imagine it with solid, painted carbon fiber there instead. It’s a car that will be making it to production; BMW’s just priming you for it. As BMW’s first foray ...    Read more

Auto shows are a time for carmakers to display their hottest new models, boast about big horsepower numbers, and showcase low-to-the-floor, stylish, swoopy concept cars that have no chance of making it to production. The 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show will be no different, as it kicks off the U.S. auto ...    Read more

BMW has a tradition of staggering the debut of its coupe and sedan models, with the sedan usually coming before its two-door siblings. That means even though the next-generation 3 Series has now been uncovered for month, the 4 Series, what BMW will call its next-gen coupe, is still covered ...    Read more

What's New The going-green initiative spans far and wide enough that even German auto maker BMW is getting into the mix. The BMW i8 concept is making its first appearance stateside and is on display at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show. Everything about BMW's latest attempt to be more eco-friendly ...    Read more

With the magical wonder known as the internet, information has leaked for the 2012 BMW 3 Series well before its U.S. introduction. Coming by way of an ordering packet obtained by the folks at EGMCarTech is BMW’s U.S. ordering guide for the new compact premium sports sedan. In it, BMW reveals ...    Read more

Automakers have recently begun downsizing engines and employing turbocharger technology to provide more power, similar to a bigger engine, while allowing the engine to retain the better fuel economy of a smaller powerplant. With the recent focus on turbo technology, it should go without saying that turbo technology has become ...    Read more

All European automakers except Porsche posted strong sales numbers in October compared to last year’s figures. For the first time in a while, the Mercedes-Benz brand outpaced BMW on the month with 22,637 vehicles sold, not including the Sprinter commercial van. The three-point-star brand led with a strong performance lead ...    Read more