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The 2012 BMW 3 Series has achieved the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IHHS) “Top Safety Pick”. Rated as “Good”, the highest rating the IHHS given out for their 40 mph frontal crash, side crash, rear crash protection, and roll-over protection. The IHHS requires stability control systems on vehicles to be considered for a Top Safety […]
BMW partnered up once again with the Italian coach builder Zagato to introduce a one-off model to premiere at the Concorso d’Eleganza Viall d’Este for 2012. The concept is clearly based on the BMW Z4, conveniently called the BMW Zagato Coupe. This is a handcrafted work of art created with close collaboration between the two […]
The largest classic Mini event anywhere on planet earth, held for the first time in Hungary from 24th to the 28th of May 2012 at the Balatonfured resort around Lake Balaton. This time around, the International Mini Meeting (IMM for short) is being organized by the MINI Club Hungary, with help from various Mini chapters, […]
BMW announced a new head of exterior design. A 42 year old Lebanese French-Canadian, Karim Habib, assumed the rule as of June 1st of 2012. Habib joined the design the team in ’98, where he helped the current generation E65 BMW 7 Series loose it’s Bangle-butt that previous design chief Chris Bangle had created in […]
Athletic, demanding stance, and uniqueness is the formula for the new hot-hatch offering from BMW, the all new 1 Series 3-door. The new 1 series 3 door hatch is unmistakably a BMW with its proportions and styling. The rear-drive system that BMW is well known for is what sets this 3 door hatch above other 3 door hatchback out on […]
The MINI John Cooper Works GP is the quickest MINI to-date, with numbers to back it up from the infamous Nurburging Nordschleife circuit at 8 minutes 23 seconds. Available in the US later this year. Get your order in before the 2000 unit world wide production run sells out. The MINI John Cooper Works GP […]
In an effort to capitalize on their investment, BMW usually introduces performance non-M models on the last production year of a model’s life-cycle. The 135is and 335is in this case. These performance models are usually the best-looking-highest-performance standard editions of the model’s 6 year production cycle. It makes us enthusiasts wish that BMW introduces such […]
Once again the 3 Series Sports Wagon is making its way onto the US market. The wagon gained a bit of size just like the F30 3 Series Sedan it’s based on. The front wheels sit almost 1 ½ inches wider as the rear wheels sit 1.85 inches wider than before. While the wheel base […]
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