BMW’s ConnectedDrive is a grouping of comfort, infotainment, and safety features available on its products. The idea is that ConnectedDrive features are interrelated and together serve as a ‘virtual assistant’. ConnectedDrive is a combination of…
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Just when you thought that there was no more hope for companies to build bahn-burners, BMW roars ahead with the new M5. It’s not easy following the phenomenal V10 powered E60 M5, but it appears…
Frankfurt am Main, Germany – Die Zeit (The Times) put on a ‘Future Summit’ at the BMW exhibition at the 64th IAA. The purpose was to discuss the future of mobility, but it also gave…
BMW often is presented with unsolicited ideas for processes, patents, and ad copy. As are all large companies. Heck, my little sister wrote to a ‘large’ condiments manufacturer in the early ’60s and asked for…
What can you say about a car that is quick as an M3 and returns 75 MPG. It’s a killer idea, almost crazy, and yet we’ll see production BMW i8s in the very near future….
Frankfurt am Main, Germany – While the fanboys drool over the i8 concept, the i3 is the car that is critical to BMW’s ‘i’ sub-brand success. The i3 is built to fit the personal transportation…
When you create a new branch of the family tree, the deign of the vehicles should show independence, yet still be familial. That was the task BMW’s design team was given with the new ‘I’…
Frankfurt am Main, Germany – When discussing electric vehicles it is understood that the enemy to range is weight. Anything that can be done reasonably to reduce vehicle weight has to be investigated, and, if…
Sometime in September (at the Frankfurt Auto Show presumably) BMW will unveil it’s new i3. While it has already teased journalists and BMW fanatics with glimpses-of and rides-in the i8, it’s the i3 that will…
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