This BMW-powered Lada Is Harder Than A Hammer And Sharper Than A Sickle We love it when the little car goes “nyoaaaawww”, don’t we, folks? If you take a piece of Soviet history and jam a modern-ish capitalist German engine between the fenders, do you get a car of, by, and for the people? By gosh, I think you might. Built in Hungary to run the Croatian Hillclimb Championship, Tamás… Read more…

‘I Cannot Go To Jail’: Teen Tries To Talk Bystander Into Fleeing After Crashing A BMW Into A Popeyes Fast food workers at a Miami Popeyes got the surprise of their lives when a driver crashed her BMW into the front door of their restaurant on Sunday. The car reportedly plowed through a bus stop and smashed into the doors before finally stopping. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured in the crash, and the driver… Read more…

14-Year-Old Drives BMW Through Showroom Window During 8-Dealership Crime Spree A crew of car thieves hitting dealerships in the Detroit Metro Area made off with a pricy luxury car by blasting through the showroom window last week. The good news? The thieves are potentially down one member; a 14-year-old boy now in police custody. Read more…

BMW Says M5’s Massive Weight Is ‘The Best We Can Do’ BMW just revealed the new M5, and while it’s significantly more powerful than the car it replaces, the new M5 is also heavier. A lot heavier. With its plug-in hybrid system borrowed from the BMW XM, it weighs in at a hefty 5,390 pounds, nearly 1,000 pounds more than its predecessor. That’s not ideal for what’s… Read more…

Renowned Rolls-Royce And BMW Designer Murdered In Apparent Car Theft Ian Cameron, the man essentially single-handedly responsible for the renaissance of Rolls-Royce design following its purchase by BMW in 2003, was stabbed to death at his Lake Ammer home in Bavaria on July 12. Authorities suspect the unknown assailant, who fled the scene, was attempting to steal a valuable car from Came… Read more…

I Think Ford Copied BMW’s Key From A Decade Ago I just had a 2024 Ford Maverick Tremor dropped off for a week of testing, and when I was handed the key I was taken aback by how familiar it seemed. This was very odd considering the fact I’ve never tested a Ford before – therefore I’ve never seen the key. However, I just couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d used it… Read more…

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BMW Doesn’t Want Cars Burned In Car Carrier To Go Up For Sale The car carrier MV Fremantle Highway went up in flames in the North Sea last year, consuming thousands of brand new Mercedes, BMWs and Minis. Some of the cars on board were in good enough condition to be salvaged, reconditioned and sold, but BMW doesn’t seem to want anyone to buy those cars. Read more…

BMW M5 gets its first plug — and gains a lot of weight BMW’s 2025 BMW M5, which is coming as a plug-in electric hybrid (PHEV) for the first time, will be a husky vehicle. With an electric motor to go along with its 4.4-liter V8 engine, the sedan will weigh in at a hefty 5,390 pounds when it launches during the fourth quarter of 2024. That makes the new M5 about 1,000 pounds heavier than the 2023 mod…

This Retro BMW Airhead Bobber Is A Minimalist City Hopping Dream BMW’s R80 is already a seriously cool motorcycle to ride around in the city in stock form. It’s the picture of simplicity with a boxer cylinder layout and shaft drive for easy maintenance and smooth riding. BMW proved these motorcycles were some of the most reliable and trustworthy with the off-road conquering G/S… Read more…

The Seventh Generation BMW M5 Is Here, And It’s A Hybrid The BMW M5 taught the world that a big, heavy sedan can be a true performance monster while still safely toting around the kids and most of your mistress’s luggage, as long as your bank account has enough zeros in it to cut the check. This new M5 is bigger, heavier, more powerful, and likely faster and better than… Read more…

BMW XM Will Reportedly Die In 2028 The BMW XM is wonderful to drive, handling far better than you would expect from such a large SUV, and it has an outstanding interior, too. It’s also horrifically ugly, seemingly intentionally designed in defiance of modern design principles. Oh, and it’s a plug-in hybrid, too, with a starting price north of $150,000.… Read more…

BMW Copies Hyundai’s Homework, Plans Future EVs With Fake Shifts BMW and especially its M division have a long history of building some of the finest performance cars on the market. From the E30 to the E39 and even the G80, BMW has proven it knows what makes a car fun to drive. So at first glance, it may sound odd to hear that BMW’s future performance EVs will borrow a page from… Read more…

Weird-Looking BMW X3 And A Beautiful New Bugatti In This Week’s News Roundup Solar photovoltaic energy is riding the wave of the future. Gas and oil have powered the previous hundred years of economic and industrial development, but demand for solar energy is growing even faster than China’s investment in green energy. Seven massive solar energy companies in China are building enough solar… Read more…

The New Fourth-Generation BMW X3 Is The Weirdest-Looking One Yet It’s been more than 20 years since the original BMW X3 debuted, and the compact crossover is now entering its fourth generation. The 2025 BMW X3 goes even stranger with the styling, in a way that I love but I’m sure many of you will hate, and it’s now exclusively powered by hybrid engines. On the inside there’s even… Read more…

The BMW Z8’s Leather Wind Deflector Is Wonderful Overkill Over the weekend I attended ArtCenter College of Design’s yearly Design Invitational show, this time held at the school’s new Mullin Transportation Design Center in Pasadena. In addition to showcasing the campus and student work with an art fair, the event includes a car show full of cars owned by teachers and alumni… Read more…

BMW Z3 M, Volkswagen Golf R, Saturn Sky Redline: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Folks, summer is here. And by “summer,” I of course mean “it is 1,000 degrees, a million percent humidity, and I can’t get home from the office without my clothing devolving into some sort of wet rag that clings to my body in the worst way imaginable.” This is a bad season. Read more…

New BMW M135 Is A 296-HP Hot Hatch The BMW 1 Series may no longer be rear-wheel drive, but at a time when hot hatches are growing rarer, we’re just happy to see one live on for a new generation. Visually, the new 1 Series isn’t a wild departure from its predecessor, and while it’s not the most attractive hot hatch we’ve ever seen, it’s still a marked… Read more…

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You Cowards Hated The Supra For Its BMW Components, So Now It’s Dying: Report When the A90 Toyota Supra finally hit the scene as a production vehicle, detractors immediately crawled out of the woodwork to hate on it for sharing a BMW platform. Never mind that Toyota laid out the specs for its chassis, never mind that engineers in Japan handled final tuning — there’s a BMW logo on the oil filter,… Read more…