Test Drives

Our 2nd year living with an all electric BMW i3
Our 2nd year living with an all electric BMW i3

The first year living with our 2014 BMW i3 BEV was really more like being a pioneer exploring the i3’s real world capabilities. The all-electric i3 BEV has an 81 mile EPA rated range, but…

TEST DRIVE: 2017 BMW ALPINA B7 xDrive
TEST DRIVE: 2017 BMW ALPINA B7 xDrive

Last year, BMW launched a new era of the luxury sedan with the all-new G12 7 Series. With its revolutionary lightweight Carbon Core reducing the weight from the previous generation and improving the stiffness, many…

TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW 320i Sedan
TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW 320i Sedan

The same day our editor Nate Risch was piloting a $138,000 BMW ALPINA B7 around Laguna Seca race track, I tested a new 2016 320i to see what BMW had up its sleeve at the…

TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW M4 Competition Package
TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW M4 Competition Package

Following up on excellence is always such a difficult thing to do. Pink Floyd had to follow up Dark Side of the Moon, Bruce Willis had to follow up Die Hard and Odell Beckham Jr….

REVIEW: BMW i3 reaches 56,000 miles
REVIEW: BMW i3 reaches 56,000 miles

My 2014 BMW i3 REx is now 27 months old, and the mileage on the odometer just recently surpassed 56,000 miles. I’ve needed a little over 15,000 kWh of electricity, and exactly 50 gallons of…

TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW X6 M50d
TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW X6 M50d

When BMW originally launched the X6, the automotive ‘specialists’ out there rushed to call it the end of the brand as a whole. Admittedly, it was a rather big investment into a niche that seemed…

TEST Drive: 2016 BMW 530d xDrive
TEST Drive: 2016 BMW 530d xDrive

Last year was a big year for BMW. Having launched the new flagship for the entire BMW Group, it’s hard to see last year as anything but a new turning point in the 100 years of…

TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW 218d Gran Tourer
TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW 218d Gran Tourer

BMW’s adventure in the land of front-wheel drive vehicles has brought forward only two cars so far: the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer and the BMW 2 Series Gran Tourer. While the engineers are forced…

FIRST DRIVE: MINI Clubman Cooper S
FIRST DRIVE: MINI Clubman Cooper S

We recently spent a couple of days with MINI at the MINI Takes the States road trip event. We’ll have a full report on what the MTTS is and what it was like participating for a…