Archive for the ‘BMW’ Category

New York 2009: Acura Crossover Teaser

Monday, March 16th, 2009

The crew at Acura have released a single teaser of a new concept due to arrive at next month’s New York Auto Show. The darkened overhead image doesn’t show much, but the angular front and rear fenders, single set of door handles and sloping roofline gives us a glimpse of the BMW X6-fighting crossover spied [...]

BMW Alpina B6 GT3 puts the ‘Ring on notice

Thursday, March 5th, 2009
BMW Alpina B6 GT3 puts the ‘Ring on notice

BMW tuner par excellence Alpina is returning to the motor racing scene for the first time in two decades with the new B6 GT3, which the pseudo-works firm unveiled for the first time here at the Geneva Motor Show. Based on the 6 Series, the B6 GT3 features a unique radial supercharger fitted to its [...]

Acura LMP1 and BMW GT2 cars take Sebring testing by storm

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Despite losing Audi for the 2009 season, the American Le Mans Series still has a lot to celebrate. For one, as we told you yesterday, Acura is on hand this week at the Winter Test event for the 57th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring with its new LMP1 racer. The good news is that [...]

BMW’s 2009 unveiling schedule?

Sunday, December 28th, 2008
BMW’s 2009 unveiling schedule?

BMW Blog has trained its spyglass on what it says is a list of BMW rollouts for 2009, and it will begin next month with the brand spankin’ new Z4 showcased at the Detroit Auto Show. It is March, though, that will bring year’s first real bounty. At Geneva, BMW will be showing off a [...]

BMW loses Clonewars Italian court battle

Friday, December 19th, 2008
BMW loses Clonewars Italian court battle

Take a close look at the image. A court in Italy has just ruled that the crossover pictured above, the five-seat CEO built by Shuanghuan Automobile of Shijiazhuang, China, is not a clone of the BMW X5. Um… yeah. The legal battles began when Shuanghuan introduced their “Noble” last year, a near-clone of the Smart [...]