Adrian Padeanu

How big of a company is the BMW Group anyway? At the end of last year, it employed just under 160,000 people across more than 30 production and assembly plants worldwide. As of this week,…

Following its premiere earlier this month in Munich, the iX3 has embarked on a world tour. The electric crossover has already landed in the United States, with its latest stop in Slovakia. Unsurprisingly, BMW didn’t…

It’s been nearly a month since BMW revealed the iX3, yet we’re still uncovering interesting details about the electric SUV. Its front trunk marks the return of a feature last seen on the oddball i3…

The United States missed out on the original iX3, but BMW wants to make up for lost time with a far superior product. Not just in terms of the hardware and software, but also when…

The road-legal M3 GTR has always been something of a unicorn. People talk about it, but the ultimate E46 is rarely seen out in the open. Only 10 were ever built, and not even BMW…

ALPINA made a name for itself by pampering big BMWs with large-displacement engines. But this car doesn’t carry the famous roundel, nor does it have a V8 under the hood. Twenty years ago, the specialists…

After years on the sidelines, Audi is finally preparing to enter the full-size luxury SUV segment. The first-ever Q9 is something of a late bloomer, considering Mercedes has been selling the GL-Class (later GLS) since…

There is a common misconception that ALPINA is merely a tuner. However, more than 40 years have passed since the German Federal Ministry of Transport recognized it as a car manufacturer. Each vehicle built in…

It’s been a little over three years since the BMW Group acquired the rights to the ALPINA brand. Since then, news has been relatively scarce, although we’ve heard about a plan to push the brand…

BMW aficionados know the story of the Turbo and how it shaped the M1. Diehard fans even remember its internal codename, E25, despite it being just a concept car. Yet even after all these years,…