Celebrations were under way today at Plant Oxford as the first MINI Coupé rolled off the production line. Andrew Smith MP and Oxford City and County councillors joined plant managing director, Jürgen Hedrich, and members…
The triple turbo talk continues unabated, this time with a bit of a twist, electric turbo. Not so fast! Electric turbo? If a turbo was powered electrically (rather than with exhaust gases) it would be…
Joey Hand picked up right where he left off nine weeks ago – at the front of the American Le Mans Series GT field after qualifying the No. 56 BMW M3 GT on the class…
Back in May, BMW unveiled the second generation 1 Series hatchback. Due out in 2012, the rear-wheel drive F20 1 Series will continue to be positioned in the entry-level luxury premium market where it will…
Welcome to the Welt. It’s been quite a journey for most of you; how was your flight? Time to lose the jet lag and get rested for a very big day ahead. You are allowed…
Pocket rockets from BMW and Audi go head-to-head in a drag race shoot out over the quarter mile. But which is fastest? The BMW 1M Coupe and Audi RS3 have two things in common… Power….
The BMW Group delivered more vehicles in June than ever before in a month. A total of 165.855 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brand vehicles were sold, which is an increase of +15.9% on sales in…
BMW continues its sales growth in China. In June 2011, BMW said that sales in China rose 41 percent, or 21, 158 vehicles. BMW also said the company sold 121,614 cars in China in the…
Both BMW and MINI brands achieve best-ever sales figures. BMW Group Canada (BMW and MINI brands combined) reported 4,164 retails in June, an increase of 18.9 per cent over June, 2010. With a total of…
We’ve been down this road before, but as we near the approach of the first production FWD BMW, there appears to be a bit of misunderstanding of how BMW achieves a FWD platform. It is…
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