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ADVERTISEMENT Every year, Car and Driver conducts its Lightning Lap test, in which it laps all of the fastest cars from that year on track, to not only test their speed but to review their track handling. The BMW M5 CS, being one of the fastest sedans of the year, was obviously in attendance but […]

Now seems a poor time to buy a special BMW but a great time to sell one. We just recently saw a BMW 1M sell for over $100,000 on Bring-A-Trailer, the first we’ve ever seen crest the six-figure mark in the US. Now, another special BMW M car — an E92 BMW M3 Lime Rock

The Spirit of Ecstasy has been an icon of automotive design for over a century, ever since Charles Sykes was commissioned to design her 111 years ago. After all this time, the Spirit of Ecstasy is about to get a redesign for the modern era, for the upcoming all-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre. “The Spirit of Ecstasy

This test is an interesting one because the two cars aren’t exactly direct competitors. Even the base-spec Porsche Taycan is almost $20,000 more expensive than the top-of-the-line BMW i4 M50. However, the Taycan is a from-the-ground-up EV, while the i4 M50 is built on the 4 Series Gran Coupe chassis. However, the base-spec Taycan will

Since its debut, the BMW 1 Series M has sort of always been the plucky underdog. Built from M Division scraps, using a standard BMW N55 engine, and being based on one of BMW’s more unusual looking cars of the era, the 1 Series M seemed like it was doomed from the beginning. However, the

Norway has been on the forefront of EV adoption since the beginning of EVs. The beautiful Scandinavian country has been quick to adopt EVs and has the highest percentage of EV sales of any country in the world. So it’s no surprise that the BMW iX is already selling well in Norway, where it was

Autonomous driving is typically marketed as a luxury item, a technology of convenience, something to handle the mundane parts of driving so you don’t have to. While some autonomous driver aids can help increase safety, full autonomous driving systems are more for comfort. However, Toyota is actually developing a Supra that can autonomously drift and

The upcoming BMW 7 Series is on the way and it’s set to be one of the most interesting cars in the brand’s lineup. Between its electrification, its tech, and its new design, the 7 Series is going to be radically different from any other 7 Series before it, for better or worse. Either way,

The MINI Cooper SE is among the lease expensive EVs in the world. In many markets, it’s the cheapest EV on sale, such as in North America and South Africa. In this new video from Cars.co.za, we get to see if South Africa’s cheapest EV is actually worth getting. Before we get into any review,

As BMW enthusiasts, we often put the E46 BMW M3 on a pedestal, as many of us claim it to be the best M3 of all time. Though, it can be easy to make such hyperbolic claims through the rose-tinted lens of nostalgia. Is it really true, though, is the E46 M3 as good as