Review: 2008 M3 Coupe
The review we’ve all been waiting for. Tiff of Fifth Gear reviews the brand new 2008 BMW M3.
2007 3 Series Cabriolet Test Drive
The BMW 335i Convertible is the perfect solution for those who can’t decide between a performance coupe and a performance convertible.
Year in and year out, perhaps no car has shrugged off more challenges than the BMW 3 Series. But while Asian and American rivals have yet to equal the BMW’s refinement and pure handling capabilities, they have certainly been cranking up the power. They seem to feel that if they can’t out-finesse the Bimmer, they’ll simply crush it instead.
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BMW at the IAA in Frankfurt
BMW put on quite a spectacle at Frankfurt this year. With the introduction of the X6 Concept, X6 Active Hybrid Concept, the redesigned 1 series and of course new technologies within the EfficientDynamics concept; you could say that BMW brought out the big guns. I have collected a series of videos that will help illustrate just why BMW’s are the Ultimate Driving Experience!
National Post: Packed With Punch
The original Mini, penned by Sir Alec Issigonis, earned a solid reputation for its impish personality, delicate handling (this despite of the 10-inch wheels!), a large centrally mounted speedometer and toggle switches galore. Consequently, when the new Mini arrived in 2002, it was greeted like a long lost friend — it picked up on the old’s key styling cues (including the row of toggle switches and large round speedo) while adding a healthy dose of substance.
Debut of the World’s First Sports Activity Coupe: The BMW Concept X6.
BMW has finally taken the wraps off its long-awaited X6 crossover, a new model described by Chief designer Chris Bangle as a coupe with off-road capabilities. Though BMW is calling its new show car a concept, an almost identical version of the car will hit the market early next year.
The car features four doors, a sloping coupe roofline and high waist line, oversized wheel arches for the 21in rims, and seating capacity for four. Its front end shares much in common with the current X5 SUV on which it’s based but gets a new CS-Concept inspired front bumper with aluminum underbody protection. The side mirrors also get a new design, made up of two units with a strip of lights between the lower unit finished in body colour and the upper section made of aluminum.
Edmunds First Drive: MINI Clubman
We come to the 2008 Mini Cooper S Clubman with more than the usual sense of curiosity. After all, the Mini is a great car, but it’s also not a car for everybody.
Now Mini has brought us an even stranger version of an already eccentric car, a stretched-out model with three doors for people and two doors for cargo. And yet Mini expects the new car to eventually account for more than a quarter of all its sales worldwide.
The crucial question is: Has Mini managed to preserve the qualities that have made its standard model such a hit even as it reaches out to a broader audience with this stretched version of its iconic small car?
Wheels: BMW happy on paved and dirt
X Country is one of three single-cylinders that try to blend street, off-road performance
If my limited high school algebraic skills are intact, X plus Y equals fun. “X” being BMW’s new 650 cc X Country and “Y” being any road (paved or dirt) that’s not a freeway.
Globe and Mail: Pampered in the picture-perfect Rockies
JASPER, ALTA. — The small, northern Alberta town of Jasper may not seem to be the most logical road trip destination for a relatively young couple celebrating their five-year wedding anniversary, especially with my co-pilot approaching the start of her third trimester of pregnancy as we thumpety-thumped our way to this isolated town of just more than 4,000 residents.
But as part of a Rocky Mountain driving experience that alternated between awe-inspiring views of nature and pampering luxury resorts, the most northerly stop of our tour of Alberta provided copious amounts of what less romantic, but more enthusiastic, drivers may appreciate most about this tour: lots of seat time on some of the most amazing roads in Canada.
Car and Driver: The quickest BMW you can get that doesn’t start with an M (until the 135i arrives, that is).
BY STEVE SILER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN J. SEGAL  July 2007�
It used to be easy to write about the BMW 3-series. For the most part, we knew what we were gonna say before we ever got in the car. On the other hand, there were nuances about the character of the car that were extremely hard to put into words to convey just how good these cars feel. But we’d try, and it usually came out in the form of unbridled praise for perfect steering, elegant interior simplicity, and a brilliant ride-and-handling balance.
Maybe BMW got bored of hearing the same thing over and over again, because suddenly we had to come up with new words to describe the 3: controversially styled, technologically overwrought, and now this: quicker with the automatic.
Thoughts on a year with the M6
I was recently surfing the Autoweek website and came across a awesome article about the M6. Much to delight, a customer of ours, Ronan McGrath, was the author of the article. I have posted the Autoweek article for all to enjoy!
Budds’ BMW is Connected
