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History of the BMW 5 Series

Sales of the BMW 5 Series already amount to more than 5.5 million units in five model generations – and now a new chapter is starting in the highly successful story of the BMW 5…

2010 Leipzig Auto Show: BMW Z4 sDrive35is

2010 Leipzig Auto Show: BMW Z4 sDrive35is

Back in December of 2009, BMW introduced a new model in the Z4 family: sDrive35is. The new upgraded, more powerful Z4is went public at the Detroit Auto Show when the 2011 roadster opened the doors…

World Premiere: 2010 BMW X5 xDrive40d

World Premiere: 2010 BMW X5 xDrive40d

Another world premiere took place yesterday at the 2010 Leipzig Auto Show. The European-only model, BMW X5 xDrive40d was shown for the first time to media journalists. The facelifted BMW X5 xDrive40d comes with BMW…

World Premiere: The BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo with xDrive

New Photos: BMW Art Car M3 GT2

BMW announced today that the 17th Art Car created by Jeff Koons will race where the first BMW Art Cars raced – at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, June 12-13, 2010. Koons…

History and Chronological list of BMW Art Cars

History and Chronological list of BMW Art Cars

The car is now more than one hundred years old and during that time has fascinated all artists: from impressionism and surrealism to pop art and beyond. Abstract or true-to-life, critical or glorifying – time…

Editorial: A Brief History of Front Wheel Drive

Start. In the beginning was the Cugnot artillery tractor. More than one version of the three-wheeled front-wheel-drive (FWD) steamer came off the drawing boards in the second half of the eighteenth century. The apocryphal story…

History: BMW E1 – Pioneer for electro-mobility

We are continuing today our series of articles on BMW’s past concepts and prototypes, some interesting vehicles that set course for many models to come. Next in line, it’s the BMW E1, an electric vehicle…