
BMW’s third-generation X5, now with 50mpg potential (w/VIDEO)
If you like the X3 then you’ll probably love BMW’s third-generation X5, if not you’ll be disappointed to find it’s lost its curvy side…
If you like the X3 then you’ll probably love BMW’s third-generation X5, if not you’ll be disappointed to find it’s lost its curvy side…
In the run up to next week’s Auto Shanghai 2013, BMW have released more images of its new Sports Activity Coupé based on the…
As a fan of BMW’s ‘X’ models and a former X6 owner, this is a car I’ve been waiting a long while to see….
It seems fortuitous that BMW chose a snowy Austria for the UK launch of its new 2011 X3, in fact the timing couldn’t have been any more perfect. As I write this, much of the UK is gripped by the most wintry November conditions in recent memory, Ideal for the four-wheel-drive SUV sector that BMW has targeted with its X3. But of course four-wheel-drive is only as useful as the traction available to a car’s tyres, so BMW also chose last week’s X3 launch to reveal its new range of winter-tyre packages available on all BMW and MINI models.
It’s around this time of year that we start hearing warnings from road safety organisations about the need to adapt and cope with winter…
I recently had the opportunity to poke around the new Mini Countryman and, my word, what a ridiculous car. For starters it’s a fat old hector, not just for a Mini, but for any quasi-4×4. And secondly, this particular example cost over £30,000 which will get you a nice 997 Carrera S with not many miles on the clock. I have to ask, who would buy one?
The X3 finally grows up and turns from an ugly-duckling into… well, maybe not quite a swan.
PR gaff or invaluable publicity? BMW’s 2011 X3 hits all the headlines.