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Dakar: Husqvarna Finishes Top Ten
It’s been a great Dakar for BMW Group. MINI successfully defended their title with overall victory two years in a row. On two wheels, the Husqvarna team made quite the showing in this year’s rally. Twelve podiums in fourteen stages netted the team a 10th place finish overall for rider Paulo Goncalves. At only their second run at the iconic Rally, finishing in the top ten is nothing to smirk at.
Sprint Start: All or Nothing?
BMW’s MINI brand has returned to motorsport’s most grueling competition, the Dakar Rally. The X-raid team has returned to defend its championship with four MINI All4 Racing Countryman. This year’s …
MINI & BMW to Dramatically Expand Small Car Offerings
In various interviews over the past few months, BMW executives have hinted at grand plans for the UKL platform. Reported by both MotoringFile and BimmerFile, the UKL platform will spawn an onslaught of FWD models. This will make MINI more long-term viable and will drive the BMW Group to greater economies of scale. Yet just how far BMW is willing to go with FWD, and how big the MINI brand will get hasn’t really been understood until recently.
BimmerCast #65: M550d, Manual M5, Diesels in the US & the JCW GP
We’re back for the November episode of the BimmerCast with a full plate of BMW news to discuss.
BimmerFile First Drive: MINI JCW GP
We’re going to tip our hat here. It may come as no surprise that the 2013 R56 JCW GP is the fastest MINI of all time. Yet what may be surprising is that it’s the most involving and engaging MINI we’ve ever driven. And it feels closer to an M product than any JCW created yet.
BimmerFile Video Review: 2013 MINI JCW GP
You can learn a lot about a car (especially a car designed for the track) in ten hard laps on a well designed track. If you haven’t read our full review of the car, certainly check it out. However if you want a quick, seat of the pants look at the GP as I enjoyed my second stint behind the wheel at Circuito Mallorca RennArena, click play and sit back.
Preview: BMW at Geneva 2013
It’s four months away but it’s not too early to start talking about the Geneva Motor Show. It’s planned to be a massive show with several high profile introductions and …
The X2; BMW’s Future Compact Crossover Coupe
As BMW goes further down the path of integrating future MINI products into the BMW brand’s own products, the next obvious crossover is with the small crossovers themselves. More specifically …
BF Review: MINI JCW Coupe vs BMW 1 Series M Coupe
The high end of the MINI JCW line versus the low-end of the M line. It’s a little apples to oranges but in the BMW Group empire, these two aren’t that far apart in positioning and pricing. So what better way to spend a weekend than to take both of these highly coveted cars out to the backroads of the United State midwest and have a face-off.
BMW to Produce Future 3 Cylinder Engines at Hams Hall in the UK
Today at the SMMT 2012 International Automotive Summit at Canary Wharf, London, Ian Robertson, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Sales and Marketing BMW, announced that the …
BimmerCast #58b: The Future of MINI
Subscribe | Download (10 MB MP3) Something funny happened after Michael and I finished our last podcast for BimmerFile. We started talking MINIs. And as we’re prone to do, we …
The Mighty Prince Engine: It’s Future on the Road & in Motorsport
The current 1.6L MINI engine wasn’t quite born out of the strange bed-fellow partnership that the previous power plant was. The Tritec came to MINI from of Chrysler (where it …
BMW Group Wins Four Awards in the J.D. Power APEAL Study
Official Release: Driving pleasure, premium quality and reliability guarantee the latest models from the BMW and MINI brands the highest acclaim in international automobile markets. That has been confirmed yet …
