Tests and Features

There’s something reassuring about BMW’s commitment to building open-top automobiles. Despite the relatively insignificant percentage of the overall market that convertible sales represent, it’s been more than two decades since a model year went by without at least one attractive and fun sun-loving model in the German brand’s line-up. The …

There exists a small sliver of the automotive market that absolutely always wants to be driving the fastest, most powerful version of whatever vehicle strikes their fancy. Be it a rocket-powered school bus or a rider mower outfitted with a turbocharger, these devotees to benchmarks like torque, top speed, and …

This week The Car Guide travels to Austin, Texas to sample the 2015 BMW 2 Series Convertible. We're already enamoured with the 2 Series Coupe's fun handling, playful turbocharged engines, and improved styling, and we're anxious to see how the convertible follows in the footsteps of its fixed-roof sibling. With …

This week The Car Guide heads down to Austin, Texas, to drive the 2015 BMW X6 M at the Circuit of the Americas race track. It might seem strange to take such a big SUV onto a Formula 1 circuit, but BMW is confident in the X6 M's performance thanks …

In 2014, we saw one new model after another. So many, in fact, that it’s hard to do justice to the topic in just one article. To keep it simple, I’ve selected one game-changing vehicle per category. These are not necessarily the best-in-class winners, but they’re the vehicles that set …

Car enthusiasts don’t want toys. Sure, they may look happy unwrapping a snowbrush or a Mopar clock, but what they really want is an actual car. Fortunately, tastes differ widely, so loved ones have a lot of latitude when choosing the ideal gift. During a meeting of utmost importance held …

More and more often, sports cars are finding themselves on one side or the other of an increasingly well-defined line in the sand: those vehicles that strive to connect the driver as directly as possible to the road sitting under the rubber, and those that leverage technology to deliver mind-blowing …

Having the ability to choose is always a good thing, as long as you don't feel overwhelmed by the number of options being presented to you. The 2015 BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe piles on to a semi-bewildering array of entry-level vehicles available from an automaker that has spread its …

It's big, it's brash, and it's back for 2015 with revised styling, a nicer interior, and more of the same attitude that has garnered it a cult following amongst wealthy buyers. The 2015 BMW X6 has been refreshed without losing much of the unique personality that has confounded reason and …

When is a coupe not a coupe? When it's got four doors and a Gran Coupe badge on the trunk. This week we're off to Spartanburg, South Carolina for a chance to get behind the wheel of the all-new 2015 BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe, a model that's positioned between …