Adrian Padeanu

Adrian Padeanu is a news editor at BMWBLOG. He started his career in journalism in 2012 at WorldCarFans / Motor1, bringing years of automotive experience to the BMW news world.
BMW Has Sent 10 Million Over-The-Air Updates

BMW Has Sent 10 Million Over-The-Air Updates

Over-the-air updates allow automakers to make their cars better even after the customers take delivery. In the BMW Group, these are called Remote Software Upgrades and recently celebrated a milestone. At the end of September,…

BMW Sales Are Falling Hard In China

BMW Sales Are Falling Hard In China

China is by far BMW’s largest individual market. In the first half of the year, 376,353 cars were sold there. That’s about twice as many compared to the United States and roughly three times more…

BMW M5 Touring Gets A Helicopter Ride In Dubai

BMW M5 Touring Gets A Helicopter Ride In Dubai

Cue the jokes about the helicopter struggling to carry the new M5’s weight. With that out of the way, the G99 Touring made a splash at its premiere in Dubai. The local BMW dealer put…

New BMW 1 Series F70 Makes Car Show Debut

2025 BMW X3 M50 Displayed At Auto Show In Greece

2025 BMW X3 M50 Displayed At Auto Show In Greece

We first saw the new BMW X3 at a public event a few months ago during the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The “G45” is currently attending a traditional auto show in Greece where this hot…

BMW Electric Car Sales Are Way Up In 2024

BMW Electric Car Sales Are Way Up In 2024

Many people rushed to criticize BMW for engineering EVs on the same platform as its cars with combustion engines. Ok, some compromises had to be made compared to having a dedicated architecture for zero-emission models….

BMW M Is Having A Great Year. Sales Are Up

BMW M Is Having A Great Year. Sales Are Up

If there’s one thing that annoys us about how BMW reports sales figures, it’s that it does not list M cars separately. Seeing the glass half full, we at least know how vehicles carrying the…

BMW Global Sales Are Down 2.3% So Far This Year

BMW Global Sales Are Down 2.3% So Far This Year

With the third quarter of the year in its rearview mirror, BMW has crunched the numbers for the first nine months of 2024. The math isn’t looking great since deliveries to customers are down by…

BMW M Boss Confirms Next-Gen M3 With Gas Engine

BMW M Boss Confirms Next-Gen M3 With Gas Engine

BMWBLOG was the first publication to report about a next-generation M3 with a gasoline engine. We’re happy to officially confirm the sports sedan will keep its inline-six engine through our German sister site Bimmer Today….