BMW News

Performance Motors Limited (PML) today unveiled the BMW Gran Turismo in Singapore. A combination of essential features of a prestige sedan, a modern Sports Activity Vehicle, and a classic Gran Turismo, the BMW Gran Turismo is setting fascinating new highlights in the upper mid-range segment as the world’s first model …

BMW Manufacturing Vice President of Assembly Rich Morris explains how BMW provides world class manufacturing. He says their manufacturing is flexible, demand driven, and built with the customer in mind. This is the theme of their Spartanburg plant with BMW’s build-to-order system. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maNVCYY-0Pk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

BMW hopes to avoid gas-guzzler taxes that are added on top of the base prices of some of their vehicles in the U.S. President of BMW NA Jim O’Donnell, says that they are focusing on fuel efficiency researches so that they will not be under gas-guzzler taxes for the refreshed …

BMW surprisingly displayed the BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics Concept at BMW of San Francisco. Sources say that BMW’s Director of Design Adrian Von Hooydonk was there himself. Since its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show last year, the BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics Concept remains to be exciting. It is …

U.S. surveys show that only less than 10% of new cars sold annually have manual transmissions — the rest are automatics. For BMW alone, they are starting to slowly deplete the manuals in their fleet in favor of the new 8-speed automatic transmissions because of its efficiency. These are the …