A little while back BMW announced a new brand of cars which will be under joint custody of both the german car company and it’s chinese couterpart, Brilliance. With the main base in China, and going by the name of Zhi Nuo (The Promise), the brand aims to sell its products world wide, even in [...]

BMW isn’t an enormous conglomerate of car brands like GM, Toyota, Volkswagen and the rest. They only own Rolls Royce, Mini, their two wheeled division and the recently founded i sub-brand. It’s the sort of operation that works well with the company organisation and, more importantly, with the product focus the Bavarians are so good [...]

There’s a rather popular saying around the internet that goes a little like this: God made the world, everything else is made in China. Though cars have been copied there for decades, they’ve only actually been properly built for a couple of years and BMW was one of the pioneers of the idea. By some [...]

China is a very big market and there is no doubt about that but some parts of the Chinese market can be profitable with what vehicles would otherwise be niche products. This is definitely the case for that region of China where stretched long-wheelbase vehicles are popular, so aiming for the popularity crown obtained by [...]

Bavarians from BMW will build a series of models in China together with partners from Brilliance Auto. To do this as fast as possible, those from Brilliance stopped the production at the factory in China where is built the Chinese version of the BMW 3 Series, to re-equip the plant in question. You probably heard [...]

BMW’s partner in China, Brilliance Auto, announced this week that from the 25th of August its BS4 compact sedan will be available in Germany. The Pininfarina designed sedan is 4.65 meters long, its length surpassing a BMW 3-Series sedan’s, and comes with a choice between two naturally aspirated 4-cylinder gasoline engines: a 100 HP 1.6-liter [...]