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It adds significant amounts of Nappa leather and wood trim

The luxury mavens at BMW have got their hands on the Z4 to create the new Pure Fusion Design package. The package adds hand-sewn Nappa leather in Ivory White with brown stitching. The same leather also covers the armrests, door panels and the ...

What a difference a clean track makes. In the final qualifying session for the Nürburgring 24 Hours that was only open to the 40 fastest cars from the previous session. The #19 BMW Team Schubert BMW Z4 GT3 was the fastest car around the ...

Taking over for M3 GTE in the ALMS

BMW unveiled its new Z4 GTE at Daytona International Speedway. The car will be campaigned by Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in the American Le Mans Series, and for this year at least, the car will only be raced in North America. The Z4 GTE will re...

For the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este BMW will publicly reveal the BMW Zagato Coupe. While it is mechanically identical to the current Z4, the styling is entirely penned by famous Milanese coachbuilder Zagato. The Zagato Coupe is a one-...

Currently, the only alternative is the Alpina B7.

Albert Biermann, BMW’s head of engineering for the M division, thinks that there needs to be an M variant of the 7 Series. In the past, BMW had said that there would be not be an M7 because it was not right for its executive sedan, but that ...

In 1985 the BMW 3 Series became the first ever BMW model to be fitted with the all-wheel drive. At the time it was both an extension of the model range and as an alternative to the customary BMW rear-wheel drive. This year the German brand is celebra...

BMW has announced that the 17th Art Car created by Jeff Koons will be racing at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, following the heritage of Calder, Stella, Liechenstein, Warhol and Holzer cars. On June 12-13 the BMW M3 GT2 with Koons’ desi...

BMW will be adding to the 5 Series Gran Turismo engine lineup its xDrive all-wheel-drive technology. The German brand will be further enlarging its range of all-wheel-drive models in autumn 2010 with the launch of the BMW 740d xDrive. The first two ...

The 22nd RAID Suisse-Paris begins on August 23rd as a classic car rally with this year's featured marque being Cadillac. Former GM Head of Product Development Bob Lutz will be there when the cars set off, and GM has sent a few classic Cadillac...

A solid performance and a brilliant strategy gave Jenson Button his first victory of the season and as a McLaren driver in Melbourne. The rain that fell just before the start of the race handled a thrilling race with the British driver inheriting th...