The special visitor in question is none other than Katarina Witt, former ice skating figure and two-time Olympic champion at that. Now that you know who the visitor is and what her background is you’ve probably guessed why she’d want to visit BMW Group’s Energy and Environmental Test Center. In case you’re not sure, it’s [...]

BMW has been speculated to launch a new generation of ultra-efficient city cars ever since the release of its official strategy outline in September last year. March this year was when Norbert Reithofer, BMW’s CEO, declared that the German automaker had plans for a new environmental think-tank – “Project i”. This project’s task was to [...]

For the past few months, nobody knew for sure if all the 2009 BMW cars will get the new and improved iDrive or just a small part of them. At first, the BMW 1 and 3-Series were said to be the first models to get the new navigation system, but the E60/E61 5 Series and [...]