BMW Australia has just announced pricing for the new F30 3 Series. There will be three models available at launch in February 2012—320d ($60,900*), 328i ($66,900*) and 335i ($91,900*). The 320d is powered by an economical 135kW/380Nm 2.0 litre turbo diesel, which consumes diesel at the rate of 4.5l/100km. Entry level petrol power is available [...]
While we struggle a little with the development of M diesel power, BMW has given us new story book to help us get by. It’s the international brochure for the new 6 Series Gran Coupé. Based on the Gran Coupé concept from 2010 this is a model that more readily fits into the BMW product [...]
Then it must be a diesel-powered M car. That’s pretty much the line given by Thomas Schemera, Director of Sales Division, BMW M GmbH in this second teaser video. The clip is a little bit cheesy as BMW goes about selling its diesel SUV is worth an M-badge message. Is that M for motorsport, or [...]
Vicki Butler-Henderson from Fifth Gear has just filed a review on the new BMW F10 M5. She gives it a qualified thumbs up. Check out the clip after the break to see what she likes and what she misses from the old car.
As most readers will know, we’re big fans of the BMW 1M here at AUSmotive HQ. It’s hard to believe it is now over a year since BMW released official info. So it is with some pleasure we share this unofficial video with you, showing a Valencia Orange 1M prowling the streets of Poland. The [...]
BMW UK is back with another F10 M5 video. This time they’ve fired up the twin turbo V8 at Pendine Sands in Wales. It’s all in support of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Whatever, it just looks like a heap of fun!
BMW has released new images and info on the 6 Series Gran Coupé. It’s the latest four seat ‘coupé’ to make the transition from concept to reality. It actually looks better than the proper 6 Series Coupé on which it is based. Well, we think so anyway. The matt finish Frozen Bronze metallic paint looks [...]
Here’s a nifty little video comparing line drawings of the new F30 BMW 3 Series against its E90 predecessor. Amazing how, in this visual form, the E90 looks horribly dated already. Perhaps the most controversial element of the F30 design, the connection of the headlights to the famed BMW kidney grille, looks as though it [...]
A couple of days ago BMW released this teaser title ‘A new chapter powered by M. Step 1.’ The hot tip is we’re looking at the first diesel powered M car. Here at AUSmotive we don’t care too much for the X6 at the best of times, so if BMW is going to cause some [...]
Like us you couldn’t make it to the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show either? Fear not as we’ve assembled a variety of images from the show featuring the usual suspects, such as the Toyota 86 and it’s close relative the Subaru BRZ. There’s also the weird and wonderful, too, in the form of the Daihatsu FC [...]
In his latest DVD, Powered Up, Jeremy Clarkson has given a big present to BMW, just in time for Christmas too. As is to be expected he has assembled a stunning array of machinery for his latest production. The Ferrari FF, Nissan GT-R and McLaren MP4-12C, among others, were on hand to win Jeremy’s heart [...]
Steve Sutcliffe from Autocar brings us one of the first video reviews of the new F30 3 Series. It’s arguably BMW’s most important model, one they can’t afford to mess up. Sutcliffe is at the wheel of a 180kW 2.0 litre turbocharged 328i Sport with optional 8-speed auto. He likes the handling and reckons the [...]
This short video of a BMW F32 4 Series is the first we’ve seen of the new 3 Series-based coupé. You don’t get much in the way of sound and you certainly don’t get much in the way of excitement, it’s just a car with stacks of camouflage being driven sedately in regular traffic. But [...]
BMW UK has released this promo video for the F10 M5. It’s well shot, the audio sounds good (even though we suspect it’s been enhanced a little) and does anyone ever get tired of watching a car going sideways? Find out for yourself after the break. In the coming days we’ll have a special insight [...]
The clever clogs from Wild Speed have produced a series of renderings of what they think the new BMW 4 Series coupé (F32) will look like. Of course, expected styling cues from the new F30 3 Series are all there and, also unsurprisingly, the mid-sized 4er looks a bit like a mini-me version of the [...]