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August 15, 2022August 15, 2022

4 Series BMWi i4 Reviews

BMW i4 M50i Review – Is This The Tesla Killer We’ve Been Waiting For?

The BMW i4 is a stop-gap. But if this is a stop gap then we have a lot to be excited about from the...

by Gabriel Bridger

Quick Take: 2022 BMW M240i vs the 2011 BMW 1M

by Gabriel Bridger

First Drive: 2022 BMW X3M Competition – BMW Builds An SUV for Enthusiasts

by Gabriel Bridger

First Drive: The 2022 BMW M240i Is The Swan Song We Deserve

by Gabriel Bridger

//M4 Reviews

The BMW M4 Competition xDrive vs RWD

I had just spent the past 20 laps at Thermal’s South Palm track in the BMW M4 Competition xDrive and I was convinced. Despite...

by Gabriel Bridger November 2, 2021November 2, 2021

4 Series Reviews

Review: The BMW M440i Convertible – The Best 6 Series Ever

This might just be the best 6 Series BMW has ever made. That’s the recurring thought I had during my recent test of the...

by Gabriel Bridger October 14, 2021October 15, 2021

//M4 Reviews

BimmerFile Review: 2022 BMW M4 Competition – It’s Complicated

The all new 2022 BMW M4 exists in a world far different than the E30 M3 was born into. In a world that has been...

by Gabriel Bridger September 12, 2021October 31, 2021

E9 3.0 CSL Reviews

Driving the Original M Car – The 1972 BMW 3.0 CSL

Cresting the hill while heading east on Carmel Valley Road, the landscape suddenly went from dense forest to golden hills. It was as if...

by Gabriel Bridger July 28, 2021July 28, 2021

//M5 Reviews

2022 BMW M5 Competition Reviewed – 20 Years Later We Have an E39 Successor

Perfection. It’s an impossible concept to live up to for any car. Yet in this revised BMW M5 Competition we may just have that....

by Gabriel Bridger June 23, 2021June 23, 2021

//Z4 M E85 Z4 Roadster/Coupe E86 Z4 M Coupe Reviews

A Look Back at The E86 Z4 M Coupe

We were reading Top Gear’s look back at the almost classic BMW Z4 M Roadster yesterday when we remembered our own review of the...

by Gabriel Bridger March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

//M8 Reviews Video

Video Review: 1000 miles in the BMW M8 Convertible

What is it like to drive a 617 hp BMW M8 Convertible for 1,000 miles? We spent a week finding out. Across four states,...

by Gabriel Bridger January 18, 2021January 18, 2021

E28 5 Series Reviews

Review – 1988 BMW 535is (The Grandfather of M Performance)

Note: This review come from the vaults of BimmerFile. Having spent some time recently with a number of new products we thought it appropriate...

by Gabriel Bridger December 22, 2020December 22, 2020

//M Models //M Performance 8 Series Reviews

BMW M850i Gran Coupe Review – One Car to Rule Them All

One car to rule them all. That’s the concept of the BMW M850i Gran Coupe in our eyes. Much like the X6 M50i we...

by Gabriel Bridger September 8, 2020September 8, 2020

//M Performance G06 X6 Reviews

BMW X6 M50i Review: Part Crossover, Part Sports Sedan & a Dose of Brute Force

523 hp, 5,115 lbs and an illuminated kidney grille. You know a BMW X6 M50i review on Bimmerfile isn’t going to gloss over those...

by Gabriel Bridger August 23, 2020September 8, 2020

Reviews

BimmerFile Review: Escort MAX 3 Radar Detector

Like many of you I am not an expert on radar, laser and the science behind detectors. However I have owned various radar detectors...

by Gabriel Bridger August 17, 2020September 8, 2020

//M Performance G05 X5 G06 X6 Reviews

Quick Drive: 2020 BMW X5 M50i & X6 M50i

Both the BMW X5 M50i and X6 M50i are a flawed concepts. Big and heavy with shoehorned sporting pretensions. Worse of the two is...

by Gabriel Bridger April 22, 2020August 8, 2020

Events MINI Reviews Video

Video: Driving A Classic Mini Cooper S To Quail – The World’s Most Exclusive Car Event

While the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance gets all the press during Monterey Speed Week, there’s another event that we’ve come to love even more....

by Gabriel Bridger April 16, 2020April 16, 2020

MINI Reviews

Review: 2020 Electric MINI Cooper SE

The all electric MINI Cooper SE is a parts-bin car that defies expectations and is greater than the sum of those borrowed parts. Developed...

by Gabriel Bridger March 12, 2020March 13, 2020