Closing up September sales, where it sold 128,446 units (an increase of 9.3 percent), BMW stays on course to remain the world’s top-selling luxury automakers. “At the end of the third quarter we find ourselves well on course to deliver our target of more than 1.6 million vehicles in 2011 and to remain the clear [...]
BMW of USA has just announced that the X1 definitely won’t be coming to US shores before the X1’s mid-cycle refresh in 2013. BMW said that this is due to a weak dollar to euro exchange rate. “It can be a positive to wait until the mid-cycle change and bring in a freshened vehicle,” said [...]
BMW is slowly starting to offer its new 2.0 liter TwinPower turbocharged inline 4-cylinder unit around the world. In the United State, the first model to get the 240-hp 4-banger will be the 2012 BMW Z4 sDrive28i – as we saw at the 2011 New York Auto Show earlier this year. Earlier this year, BMW [...]
While we still have yet to get the BMW X1 in the U.S. market, the X1 sDrive20d EfficientDynamics Edition has just been unveiled as a more fuel-efficient option for European buyers. The engine was designed for those who think green. It comes with a 2.0-liter four-cylinder diesel motor, equipped with a TwinPower Turbo, producing 161-hp [...]
If you were looking forward to purchase BMW X1 in the United States later this year, we have some bad news for you. The German automaker has delayed launch of the X1 until the end of 2012 due to strong demand for the redesigned version of the 2011 BMW X3. BMW of North America CEO [...]
Even though BMW had just recently revealed the all-new BMW M5 Concept, there’s much speculation as to what the German make has planned for the next couple years. Some journalists were invited to Munich for an update on BMW’s latest efforts. Next to the F10 M5, a number of updated 1er hatchbacks were spotted lurking [...]
The BMW X1 has become a pretty nice sales success for the German automaker and if rumors are to be believed, BMW is considering an M edition of the compact crossover. Reports suggest that power for the BMW X1 will come from a turbocharged 3.0L 6-cylinder engine making 315-hp with a maximum torque of 332 [...]
Earlier this year, BMW unveiled the new 2011 BMW X1 powered by a 2.0L 4-cylinder TwinPower Turbo engine. The company now says that it will expand the use of its TwinPower Turbo technology to other 4-clyinder and 3-cylinder engines. Expanding the use of the TwinPower Turbo technology to range of gasoline and diesel engines is [...]
According to new information from inside the company, BMW plans on turbocharging each and every 4-cylinder gasoline engine it produces. BMW’s first 4-cylinder engine recently made its debut in the 2011 BMW X1 xDrive28i for Europe. The 2.0L 4-cylinder TwinPower Turbo engine produces 245-hp and 258 lb-ft of torque. Sources say that all 4-cylinder turbo [...]
As confirmed yesterday by BMW of North America’s CEO Jim O’Donnell, 4-cylinder turbo BMW vehicles will be coming to the stateside at the end of this year. Today, BMW officially confirmed that 4-cylinder engines will be returning to the US line-up for the first time in since 1999. The engine is the same unit that [...]
