Posts Tagged ‘bmw 3 series’

New York ‘08 Preview: World Car of the Year finalists announced

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
With the New York Auto Show just around the corner in late March, the organization behind the "World Car of the Year" Awards has revealed its top three finalists. The top vehicles in each of four categories were chosen by an international panel of 47 automotive journalists reportedly committed to ca......

BMW bringing aero kit for the 1-series to Geneva, tii variant rumored

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the BMW 1-series tii concept.Among the assorted wares BMW will be showing off in Geneva, the Bavarian boys will also be displaying a complete accessories package for the 1-series that includes a number of the aerodynamic features we've seen already.According to ......

VIDEO: Hyundai Genesis Super Bowl ads

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
click above image to view Hyundai's Super Bowl commercialsThe Super Bowl is this Sunday, and that means we get to see the best commercials that money can buy, and perhaps some football, as well. Hyundai was unsure whether it wanted to spend $2.5m a pop for two :30 spots (a voice over by the Dude do......

Pics and Details Aplenty: 2009 BMW M3 Convertible

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
click above for 31 high-res images of the BMW M3 Convertible BMW wasn't planning on releasing the M3 convertible just yet. It had its hands full with the production X6 crossover and those new-fangled turbodiesels the company unveiled at the Detroit show. The M3 drop-top wasn't supposed to debut unt......

VIDEO: EcoBoost-equipped Taurus drag races Cadillac and BMW

Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Though we already miss the Twin-Force name, Ford's newly minted family of turbocharged, direct-inject EcoBoost engines has our curiosity piqued. The first application of an EcoBoost engine will be the twin-turbocharged, direct-inject 3.5L V6 available in the 2009 Lincoln MKS. Ford claims it will pro......

Rumormill: Volvo rethinking, shifting focus to wagons

Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Volvo has been trying its darnedest to reinvent itself, but the Swedish automaker is finding it can't escape its own image. Rather than trying to fight it, then, emerging reports suggest that the company will go with the flow while refocusing its model line-up to include more wagons, which already a......

Pics Aplenty: 2009 Hyundai Genesis Sedan

Thursday, October 25th, 2007
click above for 34 high-res images of the 2009 Hyundai GenesisYou can read everything there is to know about the 2009 Hyundai Genesis in the post we published late last night, but at the time we only had three images of the Korean automaker's new super sedan to show you. Hyundai released the rest of......

Honda, Toyota most researched on Edmunds in 2007

Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Each month, 13 million visitors use Edmunds to research cars and trucks, and once again Honda and Toyota dominate the site's list of top searches. The Honda Civic and Accord along with the Toyota Camry lead the hit parade, followed by six other Japanese models and the BMW 3-Series. The two Japanese......

GM’s RWD Alpha platform to underpin new Chevy, not Pontiac

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
When we first got word earlier this year that GM was working on a new small rear-wheel-drive platform called Alpha, everyone thought that Cadillac and Pontiac would be the first brands to get it. A rear-wheel-drive replacement for the Euro-only BLS was a given, considering that Cadillac has to compe......

[SPOILER ALERT] Car and Driver 10Best list revealed

Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Earlier this week we got a tip from a reader who had already received his January 2008 issue of Car and Driver in the mail. The January issue is, of course, the 10Best issue, and while we had no reason not to trust this reader that the ten cars he listed were in fact all winners, we decided to wait ......