Nico DeMattia

Nico DeMattia is a Senior Editor at BMWBLOG. He’s a bigger fan of classic cars than new ones, especially BMWs and the quirkier the better. Cars that are weird, unusual or unwanted, those are the cars Nico likes. He also enjoys covering news from across the auto industry and performing test drives aboard new and old BMW cars. Throughout the years, Nico co-hosted a podcast featuring interviews with industry icons such as designer Chris Bangle. He started writing about cars in 2015 before joining BMWBLOG in 2016. Nico is also a News Editor for The Drive. Fun Facts: Nico is a massive NFL fan and has a love/hate relationship with the New York Giants. He's also a Marvel nerd.
1999 Techno Violet E36 BMW M3 'Vert for sale

1999 Techno Violet E36 BMW M3 ‘Vert for sale

Yesterday, we spoke about a brand-new BMW M3 Competition Package that was painted in an ultra rare Byzanz Metallic color. It’s a sort of bronze that really looked good and quite interesting. What was most…

Build Your Perfect All-Era BMW

Build Your Perfect All-Era BMW

You see it all the time in sports, where analysts and broadcasters will talk about an all-era team, a team built from all of a certain franchise’s best players, regardless of era. So we thought…

Motor Trend’s Long-Term BMW 530i Update

F80 BMW M3 in ultra-rare Byzanz Metallic

F80 BMW M3 in ultra-rare Byzanz Metallic

BMW M cars have always been known to have some pretty interesting colors. The most iconic of BMW M colors came in the ’90s and early ’00s, with the E36 and E46 BMW M3s, more…

SPIED: 2019 BMW 7 Series LCI spotted testing

SPIED: 2019 BMW 7 Series LCI spotted testing

In the automotive world, mid-cycle refreshes are not uncommon occurrences. Halfway through a model’s life-cycle, car companies often will give it some new touches to keep it fresh as newer competitors come out. Maybe some…

BMW i3 M rendered by Top Speed

BMW tried to answer some of the calls for a sportier i3 variant, recently, when it debuted the BMW i3S. The i3S is a slightly sportier, slightly faster variant of the newly refreshed BMW i3….

Take a look at Shell’s new EV charging station

It’s only a matter of time before EV charging stations are integrated with conventional gas stations. It only makes sense for oil companies to start adding charging stations to their gas stations, as it will…