Posts tagged with: BMW
Now it’s Audi’s turn to send us to sleep: The new Audi A8
Oh dear, oh dear, just a few days after we were left yawning at BMW’s new 5-series’ very derivative styling (more so than they’ve ever done in the past, the Bavarians had simply taken the model lower in the range and made it bigger), we get news from Miami that Audi has just unveiled the [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 2 December 2009
Not so you’d notice but this is the new BMW 5-series
This is this new BMW 5-series. If you must, there’s another shot after the break. And if you really must you can get the full low-down over at evo. Yawn.
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 28 November 2009
Biggest dog on the road? Porsche Panamera or BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo?
If you love cars then what should matter most to you is how a particular model drives. The acid test should be whether, faced with the prospect of a cross-continental trip, you’d want to pick up its keys or go for something else. But, like it or not, how a car looks is integral to the whole [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 28 October 2009
Slapping the enthusiast
We were shocked, saddened and downright furious to discover that our favourite and most enlightened forum on BMW Motorsport cars – and a whole lots else besides – has been shut down due to pressure from BMW AG and BMW UK. Apparently, BMW claims www.mtorque.co.uk was being used for commercial purposes, which is absurd considering [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 24 September 2009
Chris Bangle ‘to quit industry’. Hallelujah!
If, like us, you love cars and value design, then this week was an important one for you. On Tuesday, BMW announced that its design boss, Chris Bangle, is to leave the car industry. In a statement, BMW said Bangle was quitting ‘to pursue his own design-related endeavors beyond the auto industry.’ We’ve written before about what [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 7 February 2009
This looks kinda fun
BMW have just released the first official photos of its next Z4 roadster. And, you know what, we sort of like the look of it.
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 14 December 2008
Oh dear, oh dear…
This is the BMW 135i Coupe. Jeremy Clarkson loves it – he went so far as to say that it’s the best car BMW currently makes – and indeed so do most other motoring journalists who have sampled it. They say it’s a great, back-to-basics, drive. Well, we don’t care. And we don’t [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 16 May 2008
Bangle’s long-lasting jangle
Birth isn’t a pretty sight. Usually messy, often unsightly and occasionally violent, few great leaps in human history – and the many disciplines it has generated – took place elegantly and with unanimous consent. For many, the debate over the design direction Chris Bangle took BMW into has quieted with the passing of each new model. Some say [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 29 January 2008
BMW X6: What’s it for?
Car Magazine has just published the first official photos of BMW’s X6. The top of the range 5.0 model will supposedly blast from 0-60 mps in 5.4 secs. That’s just half a second slower than a current generation M3. Pretty impressive by any measure.
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 17 December 2007
BMW’s CS concept: is there light at the end of the tunnel?
BMW’s CS concept gives us some clues as to where the company will take the design of its next generation of cars.
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 18 May 2007
