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Does The BMW 1 Series Have The Moxy To Become As Successful As The 3 Series? BMW's 1 Series is a new to the USA line of small, nimble BMWs that offer your choice of really powerful or merely powerful engines mated with a sweet-shifting six-speed manual or non-pareil five-speed automatic. And they're not, for a change, ugly. Rather, the look vaguely recalls BMW's CS coupe of the 1960s and '70sWhere can we hang crepe on that? Maybe reliability? We've all heard stories. But, no, the data show something different. Most BMW models now earn a "recommended" from... Article added: 2008-04-12 22:12:06 Article Views Rating: 161
2008 BMW M3 vs. 2008 Lexus IS F - Comparison Test “Competition,” said John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil and an early poster child of the business monopoly, “is a sin.”He’d certainly be horrified by the competition going on these days among the makers of sports sedans. To many, these are the jewels of the high-performance market, and yet they seat at least four and don’t require fortunes associated with Google stock.Although the genre is deliciously broad, we’ll concentrate here on two cars: the cat’s meow of sports... Article added: 2008-04-12 22:12:07 Article Views Rating: 163
BMW launches Google-assisted MyInfo service in U.S. BMW has made its navigation system faster, more convenient and easier to use with the introduction of the new ‘MyInfo’ address input service. The new addition to the BMW Assist Safety Plan allows subscribers to send business locations and street addresses as well as their associated phone numbers found online using Google Maps directly to their cars. They can then immediately start route guidance by a simple push of a button. To use MyInfo, owners simply search online for a business or street... Article added: 2008-04-13 17:14:02 Article Views Rating: 194
Hamann-tuned E92 BMW M3 Coupe Hamann has released its latest performance and styling kit for the E92 BMW M3 Coupe, boosting performance of the high-rev V8 engine as well as adding a lift-reducing bodykit and brake package. The Laupheim-based tuner has been modifying BMW’s since 1986 both for motorsport use and personal individualization of road-going cars, and now this wealth of experience has been put to use for the latest M3 tuning kit. The first level of tune lifts the standard output of the V8 420hp and 400Nm by 20hp and 25Nm... Article added: 2008-04-13 17:14:10 Article Views Rating: 160
Marketing 101: Make stuff up, make it visible - BMW's subtle 1-Series shilling Marketing campaigns are always in search of a new hook, and BMW's gotten creative to help keep the 1-Series on boil. Readers of the March 24th edition of Autoweek were treated to a smattering of tiny-Roundel factoids at the bottom of the mag's pages. Some of them might be true, while others seem entirely made up. The hard facts are naturally spot-on, but subjective impressions like back seat comfort, desirability, and a link to the 2002 are all tenuous at best. The effort is charming in its cleverness... Article added: 2008-04-13 17:14:11 Article Views Rating: 160
BMW and Mercedes talk to Magna about Mila The Magna MILA Alpin concept car shown in Geneva has gotten the attention of both Mercedes and BMW. The button-cute 4-wheeler rode on a flexible platform, could utilize a variety of fuel sources, climb 45-degree angles, and get up to 120 mph. Those capabilities, and the ability to be easily rebodied and cost-effectively manufactured, have the two premium brands looking at ways to bolster their lineups and enviro-credentials.Mercedes is known to be working on developing a 4-wheel-drive A-Class sedan... Article added: 2008-04-13 17:14:11 Article Views Rating: 167
AutoBlog Writer 'PANS' The BMW X6? As you know, we get invited to a lot of manufacturer trips to get you the early line on upcoming vehicles.After all, when you're spending the kind of dough these guys are asking, you'd better do your research.But who do you trust when you read these reviews?We all the know the big mags are paid off, so you need to take their stuff with a grain of salt and when you read the average blog, you wonder if it's some kid living under the stairs, who even has a license.We always review from the perspective that... Article added: 2008-04-13 17:14:11 Article Views Rating: 192
Who Wins The STUD Test? BMW 135i Or Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR "There we found the perfect 135i competitor: a 300-horsepower, two-door, four-passenger, rear-drive sports car that comes in at $28,000, but can hit the mid-30s fully loaded.Then we sobered up and realized that nobody cross-shops a BMW against a Mustang. So we rolled up our sleeves and dug past some of the usual disqualifiers to focus on concepts like pure performance and fun factor. Which is how we arrived at the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR-two extra doors, two fewer cylinders... Article added: 2008-04-13 17:14:11 Article Views Rating: 188
BMW debuts MyInfo feature on 2009 models BMW has made its navigation system faster, more convenient and easier to use with the introduction of the new ‘MyInfo’ address input service. The new addition to the BMW Assist Safety Plan allows subscribers to send business locations and street addresses as well as their associated phone numbers found online using Google Maps directly to their cars.They can then immediately start route guidance by a simple push of a button.[source] Article added: 2008-04-14 05:36:16 Article Views Rating: 174
HAMANN tunes the new BMW E92 M3 Coupe Click above for high-res gallery of the HAMANN-tuned BMW M3 CoupeThere's no denying that the new BMW E92 M3 is a superlative automobile, but that doesn't mean experienced tuning houses like HAMANN can't work their magic and make the best even more best. HAMANN has just introduced its tuning package for the new E92 M3 Coupe and Convertible, which includes two stages of performance tune, upgrades for the suspension and brakes and aerodynamic tweaks. The first stage of tuning bumps power from the car's... Article added: 2008-04-14 17:41:33 Article Views Rating: 180 |
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