BMW’s Gran Turismo models were experiments that never really took off. Codenamed F34, the 3 Series GT was sold for only seven years and never received a direct successor following its discontinuation in 2020. Launched…
South Africa never got the original M3 but it did receive the next best thing – the 333i. Developed by BMW, BMW Motorsport, and ALPINA, the sportiest E30 sold in the country was built locally…
We recently had the opportunity to get a sneak peek at two out of three books in a series: “BMW by Design” and “BMW’s Hidden Gems,” both authored by Steve Saxty. In a surprising turn…
South Korea is perhaps BMW’s most lucrative market for special editions that can be purchased exclusively online. The most recent example is an i4 eDrive40 Individual Edition launched in early September with a limited production…
BMW aficionados know the story of this factory-built M3 E30 pickup conversion built in 1986 and used for more than 26 years. The M3 Pickup came along in 2011 for that year’s April Fools’ joke…
The age of electrification is upon us. The wheels of progress cannot be stopped. Every year it seems like we start losing more and more of the elements we fell in love with when cars…
The original 3 Series was anything but rare considering BMW made precisely 1,364,039 from 1975 until 1983. However, only a handful of the versions available during the E21 generation came with a six-cylinder engine. Aside…
The BMW Group set up shop in Brazil back in 1995 before beginning local car manufacturing in 2014 when a 3 Series F30, a 328i ActiveFlex, rolled off the assembly line at the Araquari factory….
With BMW confirming the Neue Klasse will usher in an electric 3 Series Sedan in a couple of years, some have been wondering whether the ICE model will live to see another generation. Based on…
The latest versions of the BMW M340i and M3 (the G20/G21 and G80/G81) are more similar than previous iterations, to the point where I think they are actually stepping on each other’s toes. With BMW’s…
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