The E36 will always have a soft spot in my heart. As my first car, one that I kept...
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Some BMW iX3 Owners Will Get to Beta Test New iDrive and Cockpit Tech Before Everyone Else
Nico DeMattia, , CommunityTesla isn’t the only brand in town letting users beta-test new EV software. BMW is letting some of its...
This One-Off McLaren F1 GTR Road Car Is Headed to Auction With an Eye-Watering Price Tag
Nico DeMattia, , CommunityWoah boy, this is gonna be a doozy. Sotheby’s is no stranger to selling cars for people so rich...
This Gorgeous Dinan-Tuned E46 M3 Was Previously Owned By an IndyCar Driver
Nico DeMattia, , CommunityDan Wheldon was more than just an excellent driver, he apparently had outstanding taste in cars. The IndyCar racer...
Last year, BMW broke the compact production car record at the Nurburgring with an M2 CS. Behind the wheel...
BMW 3 Series Touring Could Come Back to America In the Next Generation
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, CommunityBMW skipped the current G21 3 Series Touring for America. After the F31 3 Series Touring did only OK,...
You Can Thank American Customers for the BMW M2 xDrive Existing
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, CommunityThe United States is one of BMW’s most important markets. China might do more sales, and Germany is home...
Check Out How the BMW M3 Touring 24H Race Car Went From an April Fool’s Joke to a Reality
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, Community, MotorsportBMW recently caught a bit of viral internet fire with its M3 Touring 24H race car. Ahead of the...
2026 BMW i5 xDrive40 Review: Solid 5 Series, Just an Okay EV
Nico DeMattia, , Community, Featured, ReviewsIt feels a bit odd driving in any current electric BMW. They feel old. They feel doomed. The Neue...
This new generation of BMW X5 is easily the biggest design departure from the family lineage, as it borrows...
BMW’s New M Performance Track Kit Makes a Standard BMW M2 Faster Than the M2 CS on Track
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, CommunityThe fastest, most track-ready version of the BMW M2 that you could buy used to be the M2 CS....
This Extremely Rare 1967 BMW 1600 GT Was Built for Coachbuilder Pietro Frua
Nico DeMattia, , CommunityOne of the prettiest Bimmers of all time wasn’t even originally a BMW. In the early 1960s, the German...
BMW Tests the M3 Touring Roofbox By Mounting It to a Race Car
Nico DeMattia, , Community, MotorsportYou may have noticed a few days ago that BMW M slapped a roof box on an M3 Touring...
BMW M Boss ‘Would Love to’ Build a New M1 Supercar. Will It Ever Actually Happen?
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, CommunityIt wouldn’t be a proper BMW M media event until the idea of a new M1 supercar comes up in...
Updates to BMW’s Leipzig Plant Could Signal i1 Production in the Near Future
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, CommunityBMW’s Leipzig, Germany plant has been online since 2005, when it started by building the E90 3 Series. Now,...
While “Z” badged roadsters feel normal nowadays (even if production is ending) there wasn’t such a thing in the...
BMW M Boss Says Next-Gen M3 Powertains ‘Go to the Extremes’ With Either Ice or EV, No Hybrid
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, CommunityThe next-generation of BMW M3 is going to be an unusual one, because, for the first time ever, BMW...
The Electric BMW M3 Won’t Be Called ‘iM3’ Because BMW Likes to Be Confusing
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, CommunityBMW has been setting up its electric branding for more than a decade. Everything electric that comes from a...
The Bovensiepen 05 GT Is the Ultimate M5 Touring From the Former Alpina Owners
Nico DeMattia, , CommunityI’ve been fortunate enough to meet the former Alpina owner and CEO Andreas Bovensiepen, hang around a track with...
Boy, does BMW have a treat for you nerds (I’m right there with ya). Like most brands, BMW has...
Someone Got an Absolute Super Sedan Steal: 2018 Alpina B7 for Less Than a New X1
Nico DeMattia, , CommunityShockingly, 2018 isn’t as recent as I thought it was. It’s frightening how quickly the late 2010s are becoming...
As BMW heads into its Neue Klasse era (for the second time), most of its cars are adopting the...
How BMW M Created the Acceleration Soundtrack for the Electric M3
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, CommunityCreating the artificial acceleration soundtrack for electric performance cars is not a job that I envy. It’s almost an...
BMW Dealers Say the New X5 Drops the Split Tailgate and the X7 Looks Like a Wagon
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, CommunityBMW recently brought a bunch of dealers to Nashville, Tennessee, for its North American retailers meeting, where the Bavarians...
If there were ever a car that seemed tailor made to become a Lego set, it’d be the E30...
This is a matchup fans have been waiting to see for ages and it’s finally possible. Ever since the...
2027 BMW M2 xDrive: Goodbye Oversteer, Hello All-Weather Grip
Nico DeMattia, , BMW News, Community, FeaturedBMW’s M cars were never the best all-weather sports cars. With rear-wheel drive and gobs of power, they tended...
Listen to Chris Harris Flog the Legendary BMW S70/2 V-12 in the McLaren F1 GTR Longtail
Nico DeMattia, , Community, MotorsportBMW has made countless incredible engines over its century of existence. Its name aint’ a joke. However, of all...
I think BMW alleviated some of the fears fans had about its new ownership of Alpina, with the stunning...
Listing off the stats of this car has me looking like that one Vince McMahon meme, where he casually...































