Posts Tagged ‘Bmw’

BMW Reveals London 2012 Fleet

Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:17 by No Comments
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BMW and LOCOG – that’s London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games – unveiled the London 2012 fleet including cars, motorcycles and bicycles. BMW is the official automotive partner of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, playing a major role in the committee’s environmental ambitions by providing low-emission, diesel, hybrid and electric cars, motorcycles and bicycles. [...]

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G-Power BMW M3 E46

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:08 by No Comments
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Taking a break from tuning modern BMWs, G-Power went back to the good old, straight-six M3 E46 series and gave it a new breath of life. The standard E46 M3, which was produced from 2000 to 2007, features a 3.2 liter I-6 engine with 340 hp. What G-Power does is fit that engine with a [...]

Posted under category: Bmw, Tuning Tags: Bmw, Bmw M3, G Power

2012 Beijing: BMW i8 Spyder eDrive

Monday, April 23, 2012 15:44 by No Comments
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BMW i8 Spyder concept makes its world premiere at the Beijing Auto Show, sporting an ‘eDrive’ emblem at the back. This badge will be used from now on for all electric and plug-in hybrid cars from BMW i. It will actually be on every BMW i car, since they only make hybrids and electric cars. [...]

Posted under category: Bmw, Concept Tags: Beijing Auto Show, Bmw, Bmw i8 Spyder

BMW Considering M7 Performance Saloon

Friday, April 20, 2012 19:57 by No Comments
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In an interview with American magazine Car&Driver, Dr. Friedrich Nitschke, president of BMW’s M division, confirmed his company is considering an M-powered version of the BMW 7-Series to chase after Mercedes and Audi’s high-performance luxury sedans. A BMW M7 can heat up the battle in this segment and give its fellow German players from Stuttgart [...]

Posted under category: Bmw Tags: Bmw, Bmw M7, Mercedes S63

A Friday Night Gift From BMW

Friday, April 20, 2012 18:57 by No Comments
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BMW just released this video and in the description they say this is just a little something to make smile, and get you through the weekend after a week of hard work. It’s some footage of an M5 playing around an airfield near Nurburgring. The video is too short, but still, that’s a nice gesture. [...]

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BMW M5 F10 Wrecked After 300km/h Autobahn Crash

Friday, April 20, 2012 12:21 by No Comments
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This is what a 2012 BMW M5 looks like after a 300 km/h (186 mph) crash. It is completely wrecked, but it didn’t kill the 60-year-old driver and his 20-year-old companion. The accident happened on the A81 derestricted Autobahn. The driver was traveling at nearly top speed when he lost control of the vehicle in an [...]

Posted under category: Bmw, Offbeat Tags: accident, Bmw, Bmw M5

ATT-TEC BMW M3 with 520-hp

Thursday, April 19, 2012 17:06 by No Comments
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German tuner ATT-TEC has come up with a superb power package for the BMW M3 Convertible – which presumably also fits to the M3 Coupe – with no less than 520-hp. It transforms the M3 from just a good coupe to a great coupe, with super performance. They’ve also tweaked the looks a bit, but [...]

Posted under category: Bmw, Tuning Tags: ATT, Bmw, Bmw M3

BMW M3 Frozen Silver Edition on Sale in UK from June

Thursday, April 19, 2012 15:04 by No Comments
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To celebrate 40thanniversary of the M GmbH, BMW is making 450 units of the the M3 Coupe Frozen Silver Edition. 100 of those M3′s will come to the UK, sporting a price tag of £58,720. That’s £4,000 more than the standard M3, but BMW says the Frozen Silver Edition offers £9,000 worth of equipment compared [...]

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Listen to Eisenmann Exhausts for BMW M5 F10

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 19:02 by No Comments
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As I’m sure you know, the new BMW M5 F0 has a twin-turbo V8 engine. Turbos are great. They give a lot of power and make the engine more fuel efficient. But they also kill most of the amazing noise a 4.4 liter V8 can make. To get round this BMW has developed a system [...]

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Tuningwerk BMW 1M RS

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 16:21 by No Comments
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Tuningwerk unveils the most powerful tuning package yet for the BMW 1M coupe with 521 PS. To get that much power out of the car’s 330 PS straight-six, they throw almost all of it away and replaced the parts with high performance ones. They call this little beast the 1M RS. Oh, the livery is [...]

Posted under category: Bmw, Tuning Tags: Bmw, BMW 1M Coupe, TUNINGWERK

BMW M5 Ring Taxi Officially In Business

Saturday, April 14, 2012 16:04 by No Comments
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BMW released the officials dates for when the new Ring Taxi will be on duty, taking enthusiasts for a lap of the Green Hell. The new Nurburgring Taxi is based on the BMW M5 F10, and it features the traditional white body with BMW racing colors. The job of this car and its professional driver [...]

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How BMW M Performance Parts Are Developed?

Friday, April 13, 2012 17:54 by No Comments
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BMW apparently thought some people may think they are using the new M Performance Automobiles and M Performance Parts divisions to sell some aftermarket parts to them for more money. So they released this video to clear things up, to show us they take design and development of these parts just as serious as designing [...]

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BMW M6 Gran Coupe – New Renderings

Thursday, April 12, 2012 17:06 by No Comments
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Taking cues from the new BMW M6, an auto artist going by the name of Wildspeed has rendered the Gran Coupe version of the car into reality. The BMW M6 Gran Coupe is one of the most highly anticipated cars to be revealed this year because it will be the only proper rival for the [...]

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Manhart BMW M5 F10 with 633-hp

Thursday, April 12, 2012 16:35 by No Comments
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Manhart Racing is best known for their engine transplant jobs. With the new BMW M5 F10 though, they found the 4.4 liter bi-turbo V8 too good to be ditched. So they got busy and prepared an upgrade package for it which in its first stage boosts the output from the standard 555-hp to s staggering [...]

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BMW 2012 New York Auto Show Highlights

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 16:11 by No Comments
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BMW turned up at 2012 New York Auto Show with new versions of cars we’ve already seen, and a new one that we hadn’t before. The lineup included the M6 Convertible and 6-Series Gran Coupe that made their American debut, the facelifted BMW X1, which to be honest is pretty much exactly the same as [...]

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