BMW M4
I’ll start with a confession. I have never owned a car, that was MY primary vehicle, with an automatic transmission. That’s right, in over forty years of car ownership I have never purchased anything but…
Hugo Becker / August 26, 2013
BMW i
New York City – The i3 would not have been built if the vehicle did not have a significant weight advantage over an equivalently sized car. While electrical motors are extremely efficient, much more so…
Hugo Becker / August 7, 2013
BMW i
Adrian van Hooydonk described the i3 exterior as a ‘mono volume’, what some in the US would call a ‘one box’ design. Think of the old 1960s vans in the US. It’s a difficult shape…
Hugo Becker / August 6, 2013
BMW i
New York City – Behind all the glamor and glitz, the three ring circus-like atmosphere (Beijing, London, New York), and the assembled multitudes of BMW heavy hitters at the reveal, there lies a remarkably good…
Hugo Becker / July 30, 2013
BMW i
The i3 Reveal – The Birth of the BMW MegaCity
by Hugo Becker / Date: July 26, 2013
BMW i
At the end of July BMW will unveil (fully) their i3 – the first of the sub-brand to market, with the i8 not too further out. BMW has had journalists in the driver’s seats of…
Hugo Becker / July 15, 2013
Featured Posts
After taking an impression of my credit card (who knew that BMW owners would be stingy putting gas into their loaner cars), I was released to the world at large in a low-mileage 2013 BMW…
Hugo Becker / July 1, 2013
Auto Shows
The car, with a black ’21’ inside a white roundel, is nearly half a century old. Its victory at Le Mans in 1965 was the last overall win for its proud manufacturer. And it was…
Hugo Becker / June 26, 2013
4 Series
The new BMW 4 Series Coupe carries on in the new way of BMW’s niche-ification of the product line. As the 6 series is a step up from the 5er, so too will the 4…
Hugo Becker / June 14, 2013
Featured Posts
BMW attempts to lure in new customers across the United States with a drive and compare event they call the BMW Ultimate Driving Experience. They trot out representative examples of their model line (with the…
Hugo Becker / May 20, 2013
Rolls-Royce
Rolls Royce showed off a special edition ghost in Shanghai honoring Rolls Royce’s four car participation – three works cars and one private entry – in the 1913 Alpine Rally where it earned the sobriquet,…
Hugo Becker / April 29, 2013