3 Series
Electronic Power Steering (EPS) The safe bet is that it’s coming and will be standard on the full range of F30 vehicles. It doesn’t make any sense for BMW to develop it, deploy it on…
Hugo Becker / November 16, 2010
BMW X3
This review begins with two observations. First, the best off-road vehicle I’ve ever driven was a Jeep Wrangler. Second, the worst on-road vehicle I’ve ever driven was a Jeep Wrangler. And that is the dilemma…
Hugo Becker / November 4, 2010
Interesting
Well the intertubes are all in a dither now that BMW has recalled cars for the failure of some High Pressure Fuel Pumps (HPFP) on its turbocharged direct injected engines. To begin with the recalled…
Hugo Becker / October 27, 2010
Interesting
BMWBLOG ran into Dr. Oetker again, wandering the kitchen gadget aisle of a mall department store, and had a chance to catch up on the latest with him. See our previous Dr. Oetker episodes… BB – Why,…
Hugo Becker / October 19, 2010
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BMWBLOG Exclusive: Driving Impressions of the New BMW X3
by Hugo Becker / Date: October 16, 2010
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While the new X3 is the focus of attention, getting it to be that required a significant focus on the existing BMW manufacturing facility in Spartanburg, SC. BMW has added 1.2 million square feet of…
Hugo Becker / October 14, 2010
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A little over ten years ago BMW pulled the plug on the ‘English Patient’ known as Rover. The decision to purchase Rover did not serve either BMW or Rover well in the six years of…
Hugo Becker / September 22, 2010
BMW 1M
I have a confession to make. I own a 135i and I like it. I even like the looks of the 135i over its 3 series sibling. (I know, blasphemy.) But the car has the right size,…
Hugo Becker / September 1, 2010
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Number ONE Strategy. In the midst of a huge economic downturn, when car manufacturers are stumbling with product liability issues or just trying to stay solvent (or recover from bankruptcy), BMW is announcing and delivering…
Hugo Becker / July 7, 2010
Others
The ink is hardly dry on the pages of this 2010 book and yet the story is as old as time; hubris followed by a fall. While focusing on GM and Chrysler, this book does…
Hugo Becker / May 2, 2010
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Start. In the beginning was the Cugnot artillery tractor. More than one version of the three-wheeled front-wheel-drive (FWD) steamer came off the drawing boards in the second half of the eighteenth century. The apocryphal story…
Hugo Becker / April 6, 2010