Okay, I was wrong: Maybe the world does need a steroidal all-wheel-drive BMW engineered from scratch by the Wizards...
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Most enthusiasts are familiar with car-selling sites, from AutoTrader to Bring a Trailer, a site which has morphed from...
A couple of years ago, one of my former colleagues, the writer Larry Edsall, wrote about driving gloves. “Okay,...
Yes, it is true: I am living on a tropical island where the roads resemble the tarmac stages of...
One of the great things about the time-speed distance rally game is the sudden realization that time is relative....
BMW CCA’s Legends of the Autobahn concours is not the only attraction of Monterey Car Week, of course, but...
Okay: I have written before about the Olden Times, children, when gearheads were divided into two camps: the hot-rod...
Rob Siegel’s discussion of the electrical woes of his 5 Series this week struck a chord with me because...
I think I can predict the future, and it looks something like the past. I’m talking about road trips,...
Mike Smiley met me at the hotel at the start of the second annual MX1 Enthusiast Weekend and ferried...
I probably won’t be able to add a third Mini to the Mondo Condo stable, but I would if...
The BBC has been a reliable source of information for as long as I can remember, so when I...
TSD rallymaster Tim Beechuk calls it Rally Day. “We finally have a chance to spend time with the novices,”...
I don’t think Walt Whitman had automotive mobility in mind, but lately that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking about...
North Central Regional VP Tim Beechuk, who has been working with Sandlapper Chapter’s Tom Lappin on the Shell TSD...
Okay, we’re not the first to speculate in this direction; Jalopnik has already predicted that the next Alpina to...
You may know that hidden deep within the dungeons of BMW M GmbH are several interesting prototypes that never...
See the nice pale blue wagon, another BMW we can’t have in the States? Note the apologetic pastel of...
Las Vegas to Grand Junction, CO So far so good: After a smooth, hot run from San Diego to...
Rallyists competing in the Oktoberfest 2018 Shell TSD Rally will take home more than the spectacular scenic attractions of...
Thanks to Roundel correspondent Tom Plucinsky, who is also employed by BMW NA, we were able to get a...
The rallymaster for the 2018 Shell Oktoberfest TSD Rally has a word of advice for novice rallyists: “I’m always...