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the CAR road test team,
20 January 2012 10:30
A year in our BMW 530d Touring - 20 January 2012 Are we road testers too easily entranced by big luxury diesel estates? Over a misspent youth poring over car magazines, I remember reading of hacks falling for the charms of said vehicles in the 1980s. One colleague on another mag actually bid for his long-term BMW 330d Touring when ...
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Ben Pulman (artist's impressions by Christian Schulte),
20 January 2012 07:00
BMW will launch the new F31 3-series Touring later in 2012 - but our artist's impressions give a good steer about what you can expect. The new 3-series Touring, dubbed F31 in BMW-speak, is very much what you'd predict of a Three wagon: it's a lifestyle estate in the elegant mould, rather than a boxy Volvo tool. No surprises there ...
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Tim Pollard (artist's impressions by Christian Schulte),
16 January 2012 17:35
More details have emerged about BMW's forthcoming X4. As previously reported by CAR, the new 2014 X4 is in essence a baby X6 - a sort of squashed coupe-cum-4x4 to appeal to outward-going types. Now Frank-Peter Arndt, BMW's board member in charge of production, has confirmed the new BMW X4 will be built at Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, USA. ...
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Georg Kacher,
16 January 2012 12:38
Have Audi, BMW and Mercedes lost their design compass again? A few recent concept cars make me worry for the visual future of German's executive powerhouses. Why German executive car design has gone wrong If the Mercedes F125 research vehicle does indeed preview the 2019 S-class, then good night mother. If the Audi A2 concept is the true face of generation e-tron, then ...
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Chris Chilton,
22 December 2011 09:54
A new BMW 3-series is a big deal. The default sports saloon accounts for one third of BMW’s sales so the Munich firm can’t afford to get it wrong. Read on for CAR's first drive review of the new BMW 3-series. Bar the comedy glasses, the new BMW 3-series looks the same to me. What’s changed? More than you’d imagine. Built on ...
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Tim Pollard,
10 December 2011 23:00
If you want proof that the Mercedes-Benz CLS was an influential car, look no further than the new BMW 6-series Gran Coupe, unveiled at the weekend. It's a four-door 6-series, based very closely on the Gran Coupe concept car shown in 2010. The executive car market has changed a lot in recent years, and BMW is now chasing the same ...
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Tim Pollard,
09 December 2011 15:30
Here's the new BMW 4-series Convertible on test in Germany - just a couple of months after we first viewed the 4-series Coupe. These are identifiably the replacements for today's 3-series coupe and convertible twins, and BMW looks set to repeat the formula. It's one which seems quite indulgent, as many manufacturers rely on coupe-convertibles with folding hard-tops to occupy ...
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Ben Pulman,
05 December 2011 13:29
The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters is the world’s greatest tin-top race series, and after a twenty-year absence BMW is returning to the DTM in 2012 – it’s been tempted back by new rules and regulations that cut costs, improve safety, and make the racing closer and more exciting than ever. And Guernseyman Andy Priaulx is one of just six drivers who ...
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Alex Tapley,
01 December 2011 13:13
Part 2: time to pick up our BMW E30 3-series bought on eBay The long drive down to Bournemouth gave me plenty of time to think about what I’d let myself in for. I kept thinking about an interesting comment made by CAR Online reader RicoD: 'Up to what price would you buy a car unseen?' I suppose I was banking on ...
In the October 2011 issue of CAR Magazine, we got together ten of our favourite M cars and drove them on our favourite Welsh roads. Here are some of the highlights from two great days… BMW 1-series M 2011 BMW 3.0 CSL 1972-1975 BMW M1 1978-1981 BMW M5 - 2005 2011 BMW M3 E30 1986-1992 ...
