The New Family of BMW Engines
Miramas, France – BMW showed off the tangible results of the new 500cc combustion chamber engine family announced during Innovation Day 2012. Now in production the first of the new engines are to be found…
Miramas, France – BMW showed off the tangible results of the new 500cc combustion chamber engine family announced during Innovation Day 2012. Now in production the first of the new engines are to be found…
Friedrichshafen, Germany – There is a museum highlighting excellent examples of aerodynamics and lightweight construction on the shore of the Bodensee. Friedrichshafen was the home of the Graf Zeppelin’s airship factory established at the end…
At the 2014 Innovation Day at the Miramas test facility BMW displayed a number of carbon fiber components, including wheels, steering wheel, and a propshaft (drive shaft). These components appear to be formed using traditional…
BMW showcased one aspect of its Proactive Driving Assistant suite of technologies during Innovation Days
The big BMW 7 Series was making short work of the ancient twisting, but recently paved, goat paths in the hills above Marseilles, France. Lighting the way were a set of prototype laser high beams….
One has to wonder if the marketing arm of BMW didn’t imbibe a bit too much JW Augustiner Bräu Maximator when they decided to fortify the 3 sedan with a 3 Gran Turismo and now…
2016 Will Be a Celebratory and Transitional Year for BMW The 100th anniversary of BMW will be celebrated in 2016. BMW virtually disappeared in 1919, was nearly swallowed by Daimler Benz in 1959, and stumbled…
The Story We Purposefully Missed If you followed news accounts of the 2014 NAIAS you will surely have seen the glowing coverage of the new Ford F-150. The big truck has been through a crash…
BMW M was given the mission to make the electrically assisted steering M acceptable. BMWBLOG has written extensively on electrically assisted steering (EPS) and has noted that BMW uses components for its implementation of EPS…
The next generation C-Class from Mercedes Benz will show up at Detroit. A highly styled Audi A4, BMW 3 series fighter, the C-Class will be available with turbocharged 4 or 6 cylinder power and a…