Tests and Features

When the BMW 6 Series was resurrected in 2003, the lead designer for the German company was the legendary Chris Bangle. I use the term legendary solely because of Bangle’s notoriety: his designs polarized BMW fans, many not appreciating the new styling direction. That second-generation 6 Series wasn’t BMW’s finest …

There is something to be said about having the best of the best of something. BMW has many models in their lineup, but the 7 Series is their flagship top-of-the-line offering where all the luxury they can possibly dream of is instilled inside. The 750Li xDrive (the “L” stands for …

Twin-turbo V12, all-wheel drive and extended wheelbase: those are the key ingredients for the 2018 M760Li xDrive, the latest variant of the sixth-generation BMW 7 Series sedan. Our first encounter with this twelve-cylinder missile took place near Palm Springs, California, where we were allowed to put the car through its …

What happens when you combine sports-car performance with the added practicality of an SUV? You get the BMW X4 M40i, that’s what. Unveiled at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show, the M40i gives a shot in the arm to the compact, coupe-shaped X4 SUV. Featuring a brand-new turbocharged, 3.0-litre six-cylinder engine …

The Car Guide is heading to Palm Springs in California this week in order to get our hands on this latest version of the 7 Series. We’ll be driving it on The Thermal Club circuit as well as on the roads of this fantastic region. I drove the 2017 Acura …

BMW has been steadily improving their green-vehicle options of late with the release of their all-electric i3 and i8 models. That technology has started to make its way into the rest of the lineup in the form of hybrid electric versions of more popular vehicles such as the X5, and …

Although the 3 Series is BMW’s top seller in Canada, besting the Bavarian manufacturer's various SUVs, the 5 Series is the brand’s most well-known model. While the first generation was introduced in 1972 , 2017 will witness the arrival of the seventh generation, which we’re comfortably calling spectacular after our …

When shoppers dish out more than $100K on a luxury car, they’re entitled to expect the best, and German brands strive to give them just that. The full-size luxury sedan segment offers some of the most sumptuous, powerful and technologically advanced machines on the market, and the BMW 7 Series …

For 2017, the BMW 5 Series will be completely redesigned, entering its seventh generation. Saying the model is important for the brand is obviously a euphemism. Actually, the 5 Series isn’t a volume seller—like the 3 Series and the SUVs are—but from a historical standpoint, it remains the company’s halo …

When the size and girth of the M3 and M4 steadily increased over the past few generations, there were grumblings from BMW traditionalists bemoaning the ever-increasing dimensions of the vehicle and longing for the days of their compact E30 M3s from the early 1990s. BMW did offer the 1 Series …