Four wheel drive / all-wheel drive has been in production for over a century. There was a British patent for four wheel drive in 1893. And the Porsche designed Lohner electric hybrid of 1899 had…
My passion for BMWs was rekindled at the turn of the 21st century with a three day loan of an E39 M5. The M5 was as close to perfection as I had seen in an automobile….
Frankfurt, Germany – June 2011. BMW was about to wow the world’s automotive press by presenting their vision of an electric future at the Frankfurt Messe. They had developed two concept cars to display, one…
So you have decided to go electric – great news, and in buying a BMW i3 you have managed to get one technically sophisticated machine that accelerates and handles quite well. But, one nagging question…
BMW announced Monday that they had signed a contract to supply engines to an off-road vehicle startup known as INEOS Automotive. BMW mentioned that the quantity to be provided would be in the tens of…
When Koenigsegg announced the Jesko at the Geneva auto show, a number of us at BMWBLOG zeroed in on the Light Speed Transmission. The idea of an automated nine-speed, multi-clutch gearbox that can shift from…
One of our favorite quirky automobile marques here at BMWBLOG is Morgan. And, as Nico DeMattia has covered, Morgan introduced a new ‘Plus Six’ model sporting a BMW B58 inline six cylinder engine. It is…
The unveiling, to the public, of the Rolls Royce Cullinan, reminded me that Rolls Royce has been down this road (or is that, ‘off road’) before. The company we know as Rolls-Royce Motor Cars got…
The Rover logo was a stylized image of a Viking long ship. And, keeping with the Viking theme, by the end of the 1970s Rover could be said to resemble the mythical Norse god Hrungnir,…
Last year, after my 2008 BMW 135i was wrecked for a 135i to be named later (right rear quarter taken out by an uninsured driver), I found the replacement – a 2013 BMW 135i, N55…
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