The recent news of a partnership between Toyota and BMW have made corporate headlines all over the world, somehow us petrolheads just nodded in approval and went on with our lives. We may have been a little hasty in our decision to dismiss the importance of this alliance. It goes well beyond the hybrid and [...]

Here’s another BMW hybrid and fuel efficiency collaboration announcement. This time it’s one of the negative kind. BMW has cut off any collaboration with General Motors they had on the matter of fuel cell technology development. Apparently this business will also be shared with Toyota. The announcement comes in just days after the agreement with [...]

The Dutch BMW fans might get a special treat in soon as the Bavarians are currently negotiating starting production there at an older plant. The plant in question is the one the Japanese at Mitsubishi are using at Nedcar. Mitsubishi will be stopping production there by the end of the year. Once that happens, BMW [...]

Well here’s a followup to the recent announcement from BMW about cost cutting. The Toyota R&D connection means that hybrid vehicles will come with a decent price. The city car of the range the BMW i3 has recently started making noises about its price, in the wake of this new announcement and the one about [...]

If you guys remembers how BMW and Toyota decided to partner up on the development of lithium-ion batteries a while ago you’re going to love this. It seems that the two companies are looking into taking that partnership further than that. The expansion should take things a little further but along the same lines. The [...]

The American branch of BMW has given its customers a new way of finding out exactly what kind of BMW X1 crossover they’d like to order. As I’m sure they know but some of you may not, the BMW X1 only came to the United States this year pending an unveiling at the New York [...]

Sure, it’s been plenty of talk about it, a lot of work will go into it but the amount of rumors regarding the next generation of the F30 M3 simply outweighs both. Most of them have been dismissed by this point and while some still rage on, the main points have been pretty much cleared. [...]

Who says TV is something the Internet doesn’t care about anymore. We asked for Internet hooked up TV sets, we have some of the sexiest adds on TV and now there’s this. It’s BMW’s newest commercial for what’s possibly their most sought after model, the F10 M5. The commercial is called bullet and is quite [...]

We heard this idea before; for the F10 version of the BMW M5 the Bavarians were going to kill off the manual transmission. Thanks to the US market, that didn’t happen. Now however, having released the F10 M5 for a while now and having had some time since the release of the F12 M6, BMW [...]

We love it when good and great news comes from BMW but some times some less than good news sneaks through such as this occasion. The current E70 BMW X5 and its less practical sister car E71 X6 are going to get recalled for a rather serious issue in the near future. Both cars have [...]