MINI’s Future: What BMW Could Do With the Brand In The Next Decade
Rear-drive Neue Klasse hardware, a proper rugged Countryman, and the halo car BMW already built once.
Rear-drive Neue Klasse hardware, a proper rugged Countryman, and the halo car BMW already built once.
No CS, no Track Kit: a regular rear-drive M2 beat the 750-unit Audi special in every performance test.
Americans stopped him daily to ask how it got here. The answer, and the G88 wagon that could end the question.
Built from 99 of the final BMW Z4s, with ram air, up to 295 km/h, and a €115,500 price tag.
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Once owned by Studie's founder, this manual Z8 now wears a custom body, carbon cabin, and Brembo GTR brakes.
Its hood is longer than the electric M3's to fit a Euro 7-ready inline-six, and its fenders dwarf the M350's.
Badge numbers, Le Mans, and November weather decide the year. Two of the road cars can no longer be ordered.
A rear-drive mode arrives by OTA update in 2027. The M340i RWD never needed one.
Efficiency tires and 20-inch wheels were worth 25 km more than the car managed back in April.
The barrier stopped nine inches short of the driver's seat, but the headlights still rate Marginal at best.
The quad pipes confirm it's the M340i replacement, not an M3, and the reveal is only weeks away.