Test Drives

While attending the BMW sponsored Sony Ericsson Tennis Open this past weekend in Miami, I also had the opportunity to spend a few days with the new 2011 BMW X3. In the U.S., BMW currently…

As luck would have it, a member of the gang I belong to phoned me late Thursday afternoon asking for a favor. He’d recently been in a bike accident and he needed to move his…

Our first encounter with the BMW 335is took place earlier this year when BMWBLOG’s road test editor Shawn Molnar drove BMW’s new performance coupe around the race track. Several months later, we decided to revisit…

A Vision Becomes Reality. Shaping The Future. Two slogans that underline a BMW hosted event at its Leipzig plant in East Germany. A small selective group of journalists were invited to experience the BMW Vision…

3 cans of alphabet soup later and I still don’t have the whole name. Of course BMW’s nomenclature tells you a lot about what’s under the badge. Here we have the latest rendition of the…

BMW’s Z1 is a classic roadster that embodies the spirit of BMW design quite well. It is bold, innovative, and utterly different. With top down and doors down (open?) we jumped in to get a…

Words: Shawn Molnar | Photos: Shawn Molnar In the evolutionary doctrine, all animal species change and adapt to ensure their own survival. Cumbersome qualities are traded for more agile traits; physical handicaps are traded for…

2011 BMW X1 xDrive28i test drive conducted by our German online magazine, BimmerToday When it comes to actual SUV capabilities, many of us know that the Sports Activity Vehicles are not comparable to other SUV manufacturers….

The Battle is all too familiar. Exhausts growl from the paddock. Angel eyes glare ahead. Two serious sports cars patiently await their release upon the asphalt. This time, Munich’s champion sports car, the venerable M3…

Words: Shawn Molnar Photos: Alan Martin / Shawn Molnar “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” growled my librarian as I begrudgingly accepted a novel from her outstretched hand. Many years later and the point…