Posted in Automotive, BMW, Financing on Oct 24th, 2008
If you’re in the market for a BMW you are in luck my friend! That’s because in a bid to move their old stock from dealer lots, BMW has recently announced they are offering 0.9% financing on all remaining 2008 models. When they say all they mean all, including all the high performance M models […]
Posted in Automotive, BMW, Sports cars on Oct 20th, 2008
BMW’s Z4 is an interesting car. It might just be the only example in which designer Chris Bangle’s “Flame Surfacing” design language actually works. While a radical departure from the Z3 it replaces, the Z4 was nonetheless a great sporty roadster in the best of BMW traditions. Now it’s come to that time where the […]
Posted in Automotive, BMW on Oct 11th, 2008
BMW AG has recently announced they will be halting production at some of it’s German plants do to lack of market demand. In doing so, it will become part of a growing group of manufactures who have had to cut back on production in recent months. The company’s plant in the eastern German city of […]
Posted in Automotive, BMW, New cars on Sep 30th, 2008
BMW is at it again with this new teaser of it’s upcoming concept, called the X1. The concept will eventually evolve in the production X1 which will debut worldwide sometime in 2010. The video starts of with a young guy skating about the city. Then it cuts to the Concept X1 rolling off a truck […]
Posted in BMW on Sep 27th, 2008
I worry for BMW these days. Though the company is financially stable, it lately seems to be run by people who could care less about what makes a BMW a BMW and care more about the profits and what sells. It’s a really awkward situation for BMW fans that have been with the brand for […]
Posted in Automotive, BMW, Hybrids on Sep 22nd, 2008
If there ever was a perfect case for the argument of forced competition, this is it. Just a few days after Mercedes-Benz announced that it was putting hybrid versions of it’s S-Class for sale BMW retaliated by announcing it too had a hybrid version of it’s newest flagship sedan in route to dealer showrooms. Dubbed […]
Posted in Automotive, BMW, Diesel on Sep 3rd, 2008
BMW recently announced that the company is thinking about bringing a 4-cylinder engine to it’s 3-Series lineup here in the states. The most obvious candidate would be the direct injection 2.0-liter in the European 320i. The same engine also powers the 120i and both models have been strong sellers overseas for a few years now. […]
Posted in Automotive, BMW, Diesel on Aug 31st, 2008
When BMW’s newest face-lifted 3-Series arrives on our shores it will be offered in one new tasty flavor, diesel. One of the companies that have been pioneering modern diesel technology in the recent years, BMW has never offered a diesel model stateside. Things are about to change though. For 2009 the folks in Bavaria have […]
Posted in Automotive, BMW, Car Budget, Cost of Ownership on Aug 26th, 2008
BMW has recently announced they are hiking up pricing on all new 2009 BMW models due to ever rising costs. The company said the increases were “driven mainly by continually rising raw materials costs and ongoing exchange rate pressure,” in a statement released on Monday. “The significant structural and economic changes in the marketplace are […]
Posted in Automotive, BMW, Safety on Aug 11th, 2008
In what comes as a surprise to many people, BMW’s 2008 5-Series has scored quite poorly in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s new side-impact crash tests. The 5 Series, described as “one of the most expensive models tested,” got the second lowest rating of “Marginal” for side-impact protection. The IIHS stated: “Torso protection is […]
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