It used to be that the inline-six was the internal combustion engine layout jack-of-all-trades. You’d see big, long-stroke ones powering trucks of all shapes and sizes, small and high-strung ones propelling sports cars, and medium-sized...
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As soon as we read the spec sheets for the BMW M3 and M4, we could already predict the sort of moaning that would be coming from our brethren in the automotive media: “Turbocharging kills...
We get that some of you are bothered by BMW’s decision to change the name of the two-door M3 to M4, and that you’re bummed that, like so many performance cars these days, it’s got...
The standard version of the BMW X6 is a categorically kooky chimera of a crossover, and the M version of it (called the X6 M, surprisingly enough) is kookier still. But what if you’re in...
Today, motorcycles with single-sided rear swingarms aren’t terribly unusual. However, in the early 1980s, they were still quite exotic, which is why the so-called “Monolever” versions of the BMW R80 RT and R100 RT grabbed...
The phrase “race car for the street” has so much mileage on it that it could have gone to Uranus and back about six times. Of course, there are some instances where it’s correctly applied,...
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Although BMW has been billing itself as the builder of “The Ultimate Driving Machine” for decades now, it has also been building large luxury sedans in the form of the 7 Series for almost as...
Every new car launch is fraught with anticipation inside the walls of its maker. Odds are it will find a modicum of success, but there’s always the looming specter of it failing to rub the...
The BMW M4 (which, if you haven’t heard by now, is the new name for the 2-door M3) is a rootin’-tootin’ road machine, but the 435i on which it’s based isn’t exactly a pig either....
Classic cars that have reached collector status are easy to spot because, well, they’re the ones that show up the most often and bring the most money at auctions, specialty dealerships and other sellers. But...