Tech
BMW is introducing a new generation of battery technology, developed internally, to be unveiled in the “NEUE KLASSE” electric vehicles in the 2025 timeframe. The cylindrical cells are a departure from the prismatic battery format…
Hugo Becker / September 19, 2022
BMW Engines
The BMW M4 GTS is an incredible automobile! Not merely quick, but legitimately fast and the S55 is just that much more aggressive in the GTS than the ‘normal’ M4. Part of this is down…
Hugo Becker / September 10, 2022
Interesting
I had a bit of a brain hiccup recently that prompted me to think of cars I’ve driven that disappointed me and immediately thought of three cars. These are not necessarily cars I loathe, rather…
Hugo Becker / August 6, 2022
Racing
Watching the McMurtry Spéirling’s run at Goodwood is a real treat, here’s an electric car, producing sounds reminiscent of Formula 1’s V10 glory days, screaming up the course, making everything else look painfully slow in…
Hugo Becker / July 30, 2022
1 Series
The Last of the (Mostly) Analog Cars
by Hugo Becker / Date: July 10, 2022
BMW Z
Nico DeMattia covered the story of the BMW Z1’s doors in a recent article on BMWBLOG. Reading that reminded me that the newly formed BMW Technik, in 1985, was the origin of the Z1. As…
Hugo Becker / February 26, 2021
Car Tips
Four wheel drive / all-wheel drive has been in production for over a century. There was a British patent for four wheel drive in 1893. And the Porsche designed Lohner electric hybrid of 1899 had…
Hugo Becker / August 19, 2020
3 Series
My passion for BMWs was rekindled at the turn of the 21st century with a three day loan of an E39 M5. The M5 was as close to perfection as I had seen in an automobile….
Hugo Becker / June 3, 2020
BMW i
Frankfurt, Germany – June 2011. BMW was about to wow the world’s automotive press by presenting their vision of an electric future at the Frankfurt Messe. They had developed two concept cars to display, one…
Hugo Becker / January 17, 2020
i3
So you have decided to go electric – great news, and in buying a BMW i3 you have managed to get one technically sophisticated machine that accelerates and handles quite well. But, one nagging question…
Hugo Becker / November 15, 2019
Interesting
The automobile has been amongst us for over a century. And automobility has been obtainable for the middle class since the end of World War I, especially in the US, thanks to Henry Ford’s Model…
Hugo Becker / November 3, 2019