Toyota and BMW are reportedly in talks to share technology, with BMW getting access to Toyota’s hybrid expertise, and Toyota getting BMW diesel engines. A profitable future for car makers relies to a great extent on yielding the best return they can from their own products, and using the products of other car makers to [...]
BMW are planning to export the 5-Series, made in China by Brilliance-BMW, to neighbouring Asian countries. When you think about luxury cars in China, you think of big imports from the West at premium prices for newly wealthy Chinese. But BMW are planning to turn that on its head. BMW’s China CEO has revealed that before the [...]
With the BMW i3 to launch in 2013 – and the BMW i8 in 2014 – BMW UK are seeking new ways to sell their electric cars. BMW has big plans for its ‘i’ cars (the i3 and i8), the BMW take on the future of motoring. But not only are BMW embracing new eco technology with the [...]
More details are starting to emerge of the BMW M5 diesel – the BMW M550d xDrive – which will arrive at Geneva in Spring 2012. Earlier this week we revealed that the long-expected BMW M550d xDrive was ready to rock and we could expect it to debut at the Geneva Motor Show in Spring 2012. [...]
It looks like the long expected triple-turbo BMW diesel is about to arrive as the BMW M550d XDrive, with the BMW X50d and X6 50d likely. We’ve been talking about the BMW triple-turbo diesel for a long time. As far back as Spring 2009 we reported BMW were working on a triple-turbo diesel, which we expected to see the light of [...]
Jeremy Clarkson has declared the BMW 535d the best car of 2011 and the BMW 1M Coupe as the most fun car. Jeremy Clarkson hasn’t had the easiest of relationships with BMW. He hated the first BMW X3 (didn’t we all), he thinks anyone with a brain would buy a 5-Series and ignore the X5, [...]
BMW has revealed that the 2012 M5 will cost £73,040 and they’ve sent us some UK M5 photos and a new video. BMW spilled the beans on the 2012 M5 back in June, so we already knew it would cost £73,040 when it went on sale in November in the UK. But now November is [...]
BMW has got it’s cars front and centre in the new Tom Cruise Mission Impossible 4 : Ghost Protocol with the BMW i8 and new BMW 6 Series Coupe featuring. Marketing new cars doesn’t have to mean an ‘in your face advertising’, berating you with benefits and a call to action. It can be more subtle; simply [...]
We have what is probably the pick of the new BMW 5 Series Estates – the BMW 520d SE Touring – in for review and road test. It’s arguable that the BMW 5 Series Touring is the best estate you can buy. With a huge range of engine options there’s something for everybody, but perhaps [...]
The BMW 6-Series Gran Coupe – BMW’s answer to the CLS and A7 – is due to arrive in the UK in 2012. We have spy video of the Gran Coupe at the Nurburgring. The CLS started it all, and the A7 joined the party. But BMW aren’t going to be left out of the four-door, swoopy [...]
