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The BMW 4 Series Coupe and Cabriolet get another round of updates for the 2025 model year. The changes aren’t major but cover many aspects of the car. On the outside, the headlights, grille, 19-inch wheels and taillights all sport a fresh look. The last ones are particularly striking with …

Completely redesigned for 2024, the BMW 5 Series is now available in both gas and electric configurations, the latter called i5 . One year later, the German midsize luxury sedan adds two electrified models to its lineup. Let’s start with the 2025 BMW i5 xDrive40. While not as potent or …

Sales charts tell you a lot of things, like which vehicles are the most popular among consumers, but not the whole story. That’s why U.S. magazine Consumer Reports conducts a yearly survey to find out the models that people like the most and the least. Its latest rankings are out, …

Luxury SUVs trump their mainstream competitors when it comes to quality and refinement, but they do not necessarily offer better protection for rear-seat occupants, the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) found. In its latest round of moderate overlap front crash tests (where half the front end of the …

Three automakers make up the list of the most valuable companies on the planet according to Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2023 ranking released this week. Toyota (6th, $64.5 billion USD), Mercedes-Benz (7th, $61.4 billion) and BMW (10th, $51.2 billion) have one thing in common: they boast some of the highest …

The BMW 4 Series is now available in coupe and convertible body styles only, leaving the practical four-door coupe configuration—or Gran Coupe, in BMW speak—to the fully electric i4 . There will be one exception for the 2024 model year, however. BMW today announced a new M440i xDrive Gran Coupe …

It’s now BMW Group’s turn to partner with Tesla to give its customers access to designated Superchargers across North America, effective early 2025. Owners of vehicles equipped with a Combined Charging System (CCS) connector will receive an adapter enabling them to plug into Tesla’s fast chargers. This includes the BMW …

A bigger and brawnier BMW X2 surfaced online today, two weeks before officially making its global debut at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo. It will go on sale in Canada in March of next year. For its second generation, the coupe-style crossover stands out from the more conventional X1 …

Problems with brand new vehicles—including next-generation models—are, well, nothing new. Some of them are being rushed to market, while others may lack quality control at the manufacturer or supplier level. We’ve seen at least three more examples in the past few days. First, as many as 64,913 Ram pickups need …

BMW is busy planning the next generation of the high-performance M3 , which should arrive in 2027. We can tell you now that ICE-powered and fully electric variants of the car will coexist for at least a few years. That’s what product development chief Frank Weber told a group of …