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…
Date: August 25, 2016
Test Drives
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…
Date: August 25, 2016
Munich Monsters: Competition Package vs. Normal M3
Comparing when it really counts – on the Nurburgring – By Dan Irish with Alexei Griesbach. Being that I like European Delivery from BMW so much, it was not a hard choice to order the 2016…
Date: August 18, 2016
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…
Date: August 8, 2016
TEST DRIVE: Litchfield BMW M4 Enhancements – From Four to ‘Phwooor’!
Is it possible to improve the engineering art of BMW’s Motorsport technicians? A drive of Litchfield’s new M4 demonstrator certainly suggests so…If there were any stones left to turn in the development of a new…
Date: July 28, 2016
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…
Date: July 17, 2016
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…
Date: July 14, 2016
TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW 420i Convertible
When it launched two years ago, the BMW 4 Series Convertible was almost unchallenged it its segment where competitors, like the Audi A5 Cabriolet, were showing their age. Today, the landscape has changed. We now…
Date: July 12, 2016
TEST DRIVE: 2016 BMW 640d xDrive Convertible
Back in 2003 24 years had passed since the original 6 Series range went out of production. After such a long hiatus, the 6er made a comeback in the shape of the E63/64 Coupe/Convertible duo…
Date: July 8, 2016
2014 BMW i8 – Long Term Review
The BMW i8 is a Master’s work of industrial artistry, but is it a Supercar? By “Old Testament” petrol metrics the answer is no. However a quick look at the supercar wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercar shows that…
Date: July 5, 2016
2016 BMW M3 Competition Package vs. Cadillac ATS-V – TEST DRIVE
For thirty years, the BMW M3 has been the go-to performance sedan. Things began to waiver in 2015 when, at the Detroit Auto Show, the fifth generation M3 was introduced. The inline six had returned…
Date: June 30, 2016
