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The new BMW 6 Series Coupe Revealed

26 June 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

BMW has brought out the 6-Series coupe, in advance of its first appearance at Auto Shanghai 2011.

The coupe has a crook nose front-end with bi-xenon headlamps and a further-angled trellis. The back profile features frameless windows, chrome accents, and a C-pillar with the characteristic Hofmeister bend. Finally, in the back, there is a double exhaust system, LED rear lights, and a torso lid with an incorporated freebooter.

The technical designs which the car renders is a head-up show, a back-view camera, night sight aid with walker recognition, parking assist, and a lane exit / lane alteration monitory system.

At commence, two engines will be obtainable. The 640i has a turbocharged 3.0-liter inline six that produces 315 hp which is 235 kW / 320 PS and 450 Nm that is 332 lb-ft of torsion. When matched to an eight-speed reflexive transmission, the car speeds up from 0-100 km/h in 5.4 seconds and has a top speed of 250 km/h that is 155 mph. The standard fuel expenditure is 7.7 L/100km that is 36.7 mpg imp / 30.5 mpg US and CO2 discharges are 179 g/km.

Nothing is released about its prices but the redesigned model will be on sale in the United States this fall.

Present 5 Series of BMW Among the 2011 World Car of the Year Finalists

25 June 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

This year’s version of the World Car of the Year competition is near to its last stage and this entails that one prototype from a celebrated car producer will be presented with the coveted award.

BMW is present in this contest with a very esteemed prototype, namely the present 5 Series production which attempts to get the big prize in the major class that is World Car of the Year. BMW has to battle with other out of this world and ground-breaking models like Audi A8 and Nissan Leaf.

In order to guarantee that the contest is fair enough, the 66 jurors that who are to choose the winners on April 21 at the New York Auto Show have divided this contest in four classes. The first class is the main one.

The other models which are also in the race for the World Car Design of the Year are Aston Martin Rapide, Alfa Romeo Giulietta and also Ferrari 458 Italia.

There is also a group intended for the active prototypes, called World Performance Car of the Year, also a prize for the World Green Car of the Year which will most likely go for BMW’s 320d EfficientDynamics Edition or Chevrolet Volt or Nissan’s Leaf.

BMW Dealer at New Jersey Offers The 2011 BMW 328i

23 June 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

One of the leading NJ BMW dealers, the Park Avenue BMW, would like to notify its clients regarding the brand new 2011 BMW 328i which is presently on its lot. The lustrous, contemporary sedan extends a range of great ease and activity characteristics that will overwhelm any car purchaser. It is very easy to use controls and demands only a soft handling. Drivers will surely take pleasure in every second they drive this vehicle. The 2011 BMW 328i has enough to extend to its clients.

The exciting and stylish 328i, obtainable from this NJ BMW dealer, comes in four diverse body modes for BMW shoppers; the Coupe, Convertible, Sedan, and Sports Wagon, creating it operative and comfy for anyone irrespective of their lifestyle.

Each body type has a dominant 3.0-liter, inline 6-cylinder engine with up to 230 horsepower. They also come with sophisticated rear-wheel drive, along with a Steptronic 6-speed automatic transmission plus a 6-speed manual transmission which is optional.

Each body style also is equipped with Double Vanos, which is an engine engineering that affords the car well-built acceleration as well as a more fluent, more calm engine functioning. The 2011 328i is also sparing with 26-28 highway mpg.

BMW to Contend in Complete Intercontinental Le Mans Cup

21 June 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

BMW Motor sport has affirmed its participation in the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup with the most recent variant of its M3 GT2 race car. BMW Team Schnitzer will control two M3s in the ILMC’s 4 European events and the Asian round in China, while BMW Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing–which gained the 2010 American Le Mans Series squad and producer GT titles–will be held responsible for the races at Sebring and Road Atlanta.
Multiple World Touring Car Championship title victors Andy Priaulx will team up with Augusto Farfus and Jörg Müller in Schnitzer’s team, and Priaulx and Farfus will as well race at Sebring and Road Atlanta in support of RLL’s Bill Auberlen, Joey Hand, Dirk Müller and Dirk Werner.
BMW Motor sport director Mario Theissen stated that “The Intercontinental Le Mans Cup enjoyed a successful debut in 2010, and we experienced victory in the LM-GT2 class with the BMW M3 GT2 in Zhuhai, the season finale. We’ve decided to continue to support this relatively young series. . . . We expect a close competition again this year and for this class to be extremely hard-fought.”

G-Power BMW M6 Hurricane RR

20 June 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

The replica of the German car is the most up-to-date one to gain from a fine tuning kit from G-Power. The Germans brought off a rise in the horsepower amount of the replica to an exact figure: 800HP and 800 Nm of torsion. Thanks to the bi compressor V10 engine underneath the cap the BMW M6 Hurricane RR pulls off to set a innovative record, the best ever four-seater car.

 

The prototype is competent to build up additional 50 horsepower equated to the preceding M6 Hurricane CS. The statistics of the G-Power M6 Hurricane RR are also spectacular; the dash from 0 to 100 km/h is being accomplished in 4.3 seconds at the same time as the peak speed arrives at 372 km/h.

The external appearance of the German prototype has received a new back bumper, a carbon filament air diffuser, a black paint and 20-inch G-Power Silverstone Club sport rims. Tires with elevated functioning of 255/35 ZR 20 and 285/30 ZR 20 was conformed to on the massive rims. An original soaring execution halting system of rules increments the safety device of the prototype on the roadstead.

BMW Exposes M3 as the World’s Best Ever Pickup – is it an April Fools joke

5 April 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

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BMW has by now established this is an April fool’s joke. But this press publish extends with the flight of the imagination that this M3 pickup is the 4th body style version variant in the M3 serial after the vehicle, adaptable and sedan.

The only query is, is there any truth to the specifications they furnish here and we can merely take them at their word on that.

The M3 lift up comes with a 309 kW/420 PS that is 414 bhp power plant and a back load capacity of 450 kg – which straits sensible enough. The cd quotient that is the aerodynamic flow in the wind channel is the same as on the M3 Coupe and its peak speed is 300 km/h that is 186 mph.

The spy shot of this car was spotted while doing its rounds at the Nürburgring and this is a real fact. The output range is precisely as the 4.0 liter V8 that goes into the M3. The M3 also features 400 Nm that is 295 lb-ft of torsion.

BMW apprehends to this constituting a rarity prototype in the press release and it can said to be very true confidently.

Wide-ranging drive and suspension technology from the BMW M3 can be believed to be true since testing has been finished on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife – 420 hp and 450 kg load capacity – world first showing on 1 April 2011.

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Following the BMW M3 Coupe, BMW M3 Convertible and BMW M3 Sedan, a fourth body version of this worldwide victorious high-performance sports car is more or less to induce a stimulate. Under the most rigid secretiveness, the world’s first superior pickup has been produced at the BMW M GmbH developing centre. The most sporting model by far in this fomite class, the BMW M3 Pickup will arouse the visions of all automobilists with a profound admiration of top show coordinated by an enthusiastic sensible bent. 309 kW/420 hp under the cap and a back-axle load capacity of up to 450 kilos take the stamp BMW M association between race-tailored forcing delight and daily usefulness to a completely new level. This only one of its kind vehicle with widespread test and set-up drives on the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife.

With this fomite, BMW M GmbH once more renders proof of its excellent capability in formulating and building top-quality, individual dream cars. With a high revving up V8 engine at the facade, a munificently sized load area at the rear and a detachable Targa roof above, driver and riders in the BMW M3 Pickup will enjoy an unexampled take on the recognizable M feeling.

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The curb weight of the world’s quickest pickup undercuts that of the BMW M3 Convertible by approximately 50 kilograms. Getting rid of the Targa roof knocks off an additional 20 kg whilst at the same time letting down the car’s center of gravity. This most extraordinary experience of top-down driving delight in a BMW M3 thus blends hand in hand with additional optimized energetic dealing.

The sensible characteristics of the BMW M3 Pickup are no less telling. Maximal load capability has been lifted to 450 kilograms. The load bed of the BMW M3 Pickup is clothed in top-quality integrated aluminum sheeting and furnishes the largest cargo capacity ever extended on a BMW M vehicle.

In spite of these indisputable stand-out characters, the BMW M3 Pickup will not be leading for the golf course or serial growth, but will hold back its position as a single one-off. It is appropriated for use as a workshop carry vehicle for BMW M GmbH.

Spy Shots of New BMW 3 Series Showing New Details

23 March 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

Trapped on camera lately, this profoundly disguised vehicle appears to be the new 2012 BMW 3 series. And even as this is clearly merely a model, the overall condition of the car suggests that the new 3 series will be all set for manufacture even earlier than it was anticipated.

The pictures below, provides with some suggestions regarding the facade and back end patterns and as a hitch, the backside bumper look quite like to the one set up on the real 5 series.

From official issues it is known that the new 3 series will have an elongated wheelbase that will develop to about 2.8 meters in length and this will permit BMW to broaden the car causing the ride a lot more relaxed.

Alternatively, the new BMW car will boast below the bonnet either a 1.6 l 148 hp turbo unit or a 2.0 l 242 hp turbo engine. Also, for speed there is a 3.0 l 320 hp turbocharged engine that will actually shift the car.

The new 3-Series is programmed to be brought out later this year, perhaps at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Here some spy shots.

BMW Cited as India’s First Social Car of 2011

14 March 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

BMW X1 has gained the title of India’s first social car of the year or ‘IndiMoto, Most ‘Liked’ Car of the Year 2011,’ by the auto classified advertisements site and India’s biggest auto fan society, IndiMoto.com. The packed in SUV was picked out as the victor by over 65,000 auto fanciers’ community of IndiMoto.com’s on sociable media site Facebook.
IndiMoto.com’s Facebook community, which was established in July 2010 with the intention of turning into a social podium for auto buffs, has quickly developed to turn into India’s major, better than well recognized ones like Autocar, Overdrive, Team BHP, etc.
Udit Bhandari who is the Founder and CEO of Indimoto while declaring the outcomes for this ground-breaking reward, said: “I would like to congratulate BMW for its new X1 which has won the Indimoto Most ‘Liked’ Car of the Year award for 2011 and also for the new 5 Series which has finished a very close second. The fact that these cars were chosen by India’s largest auto enthusiast community is a testimony of BMW’s brand appeal and the image their vehicles carry in the minds of people who know their cars”.

2012 BMW 1-Series M Coupe Brought Out in Detroit

14 March 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

After months of botching up, BMW has formally brought out the 1-Series M Coupe in Detroit.

Projected to be the chichi in reasonable performance, the 1M boasts a twin-turbo 3.0-liter in order six-cylinder engine with 250 kW which is 340 PS / 335 hp and 500 Nm which is 369 lb-ft of torque. It is matched completely to a six-speed manual conduction which permits the 1,495 kg that is 3,295 lb car to speed up from 0-100 km/h that is 62 mph in 4.9 seconds, 0-200 km/h or 124 mph in 17.3 seconds, and onto an electronic-set top speed of 250 km/h or 155 mph. In spite of these imposing statistics, the car has a self-effacing fuel expenditure score of 9.6 L/100km or 24.5 mpg US and CO2 discharges of 224 g/km.

On the titling look, the car shows off exceptional dashboards, irrupted wheel curves, and 19-inch light alloy wheels. Only 3 external shades will be obtainable and they include Alpine White, Black Sapphire Metallic and Valencia Orange Metallic.

Intended to go on sale in May, the 1-Series M Coupe will be valued from €50,500 which includes VAT in Germany.

“Black Bison” is the new F01 BMW 7-Series version from Wald International

17 January 2011 | No Comments » | Jeroen

The tuning firm Wald International from Japan has provided with many a Black Bison Edition tagged cars in the past. Their shares to the automotive world include the reminiscent of Bentley Continental Flying Spur and the W212 Mercedes E-Class. Their most recent stake now blends into the F01 BMW 7-Series cars.

The Black Bison Edition aero-kit lets in a new front end bumper with a lip spoiler and LED daytime running lights. The back proscenium is more composite looking though it contributes a sporty look to the car. At the same time it would have been better if the car had finished with a matte finish.
To finish the designing lowered side skirts with a pair of coddler’s on the crown and trunk cover, plus false wing outlets that cut into the doors can be seen. The identity of the package and the color nevertheless have nothing to do with each other for the bundle ends the car in a white outside paint which imparts it all an impressive appearance.
Price and accessibility of the BMW’s’ Black Bison package is yet to be revealed by Wald International.

Nice photo’s on the website of Speedlux