Sean Kealey

Let’s say you’re the average car shopper. You’re looking to buy a compact SUV for about $50,000. That is the most common class of car sold today in America, and the average price of a…

I’ve driven dozens of new BMWs over the past few years, but few have surprised me like the 2026 BMW iX M70. On paper, it’s the same electric SUV we’ve known since 2021—only faster, quieter,…

At 5,400 pounds, the 2025 BMW M5 Touring is the heaviest M car ever built. On paper, that sounds like a disaster — too heavy, too compromised, too far from the M5’s roots. Critics have…

Do car journalists ever put their money where their mouth is? All the time, we see car journalists say, “You should buy this car!” or “I’d buy this car myself!” But sometimes that’s just a…

A man by the name of Lord Acton was famous for saying, “Power corrupts.” Does it, though? Is that always the case? What if more power didn’t corrupt—what if it just made things more fun…

Sometimes we don’t realize how good we have it until it’s gone. We are at an incredible moment in history for the auto industry. We stand on the transition from internal combustion to electrified powertrains….

Times are changing, and the BMW 5 Series has to change with them. When the new G60 generation was announced last year, it followed in the footsteps of the larger G70 7 Series. The model…

Every few years, BMW will give us an insight into what their brand will look like in the future. Sometimes, as BMW enthusiasts, we get a little worried. Like many, sometimes I have gotten a…

There are a few ways you can evaluate greatness. One way is to showcase the best attributes of something within a given design. Another way is to examine how any downsides were mitigated to achieve…

The Ultimate Driving Machine. It’s a marketing slogan, sure. To BMW, though, it was an ethos. As the brand progressed and started making fun-to-drive coupes and sedans, it cemented a reputation. In 1972, BMW’s M…