Filed under: Spy Photos, Performance, Hatchback, BMW, Luxury Remember the rumors of BMW working on a hot 1 Series hatch just below the 1 Series M? The evidence trail was so faint that we called it “the most speculative sort of specualtion” when we posted on it six months ago. The trail and the car just got a lot hotter now that the very three-door... 

Filed under: Rumormill Okay, so maybe this isn’t much in the way of confirmation, but BMW M division president Friedrich Nitschke told Car and Driver that the company was “considering” building an M Performance version of the 7-Series. While that’s not quite an M7, it’s close. Remember, M Performance is the new quasi-M car line... 

Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Europe, BMW There is a point at which the amount of money poured into any aftermarket-tuned vehicle becomes entirely insane. Heck, that’s half of the appeal of tuner cars – that the best ones show such fanatical devotion to a specific model that you must respect the inspiration and effort even when the... 

Filed under: Aftermarket, Performance, Ford If Ford actually comes to market with a new GT, then we’ll be right there with them. With the debut of its audacious 1000 horsepower GT500 at the New York Auto Show earlier this month, you might be wondering what direction Shelby will be headed in the future. After all, they can’t just keep adding... 

Filed under: Government/Legal, Recalls, Safety, BMW, Rolls-Royce, Luxury Drivers of 2010-2011 Rolls Royce Ghost models and several BMW models with turbocharged engines need to get their vehicles to their dealers. The cars are being recalled for a potentially hazardous defect that could turn their high-end autos into smoldering hunks of less luxurious melted... 

Filed under: Sedan, Government/Legal, Recalls, Safety, BMW, Luxury You had to figure that this might happen when BMW decided to reinvent the gearshift lever for the 2002 7 Series. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been investigating the 2002-2008 7 Series since last fall, and has now “upgraded the probe to an engineering analysis,”... 

Filed under: Sedan, Etc., BMW, UK, Celebrities, Luxury Of all of the cars Top Gear host Richard Hammond has driven – and that’s a lot of cars – it is an oil-burning entry-level luxury sedan that has earned the plaudit, “possibly the best car ever made.” He’s referring to the 2013 BMW 320d in an article for the UK’s Mirror... 

Filed under: Spy Photos, Performance, Hatchback, BMW While we’ve already reported that BMW’s M135i concept from Geneva is headed for production, this footage all but confirms it. Britain’s Car magazine has over a minute of video showing a rather sporting 1 Series three-door testing at the Nürburgring. Of course, this latest bit of news... 

Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, China, BMW, Design/Style, Luxury After we saw spy shots of a long-wheelbase BMW 3 Series for China, we knew it one was coming. Now BMW has confirmed that the car will indeed bow at Auto China 2012, otherwise known as the 2012 Beijing Motor Show, which kicks off on April 23. The LWB 3 Series has an 4.3-inch wheelbase stretch and... 

Filed under: New York Auto Show, Coupe, Crossover, Hatchback, Ford, Land Rover, Porsche, Volkswagen, Electric As is tradition, Day Two of the 2012 New York Auto Show kicked off with the annual World Car of the Year awards. Global entries competed for honors in four different categories, and from the initial list of 34 contenders, the final four were selected...