BMW Technology

Circa 2000. Tiff Needell, along with guest Mark Higgins, test and compare different drive configurations in terms of best perceived handling: front-wheel drive front-engined (FWD-FF), rear-wheel drive, front-engined (RWD-FR), rear-wheel drive mid-engined (RWD-MR) and all-wheel drive front-engine (AWD-FA). This video may be illustrative on what particular drive configurations represent for driving …

BMW TwinPower Turbo technology again wins Wards 2016 10 Best Engines Award, announced at the 22nd annual celebration where nearly 600 Powertrain Engineers joined at the Renaissance Center Marriott in Detroit on Wednesday January 13. Ludwig Willisch, President and CEO of BMW of North America, accepted the award for the …

BMW presented the i8 Mirrorless concept at the CES 2016. This is a car uses two small cameras as side mirrors, accommodated in aerodynamically optimized holders supplemented by a third camera mounted on the upper edge of the rear windscreen. All images are merged and displayed as a single image …

Munich. In addition to the innovative BMW ConnectedDrive services, the BMW Group is constantly working to develop pioneering digital services which will expand vehicle connectivity. The BMW Labs portal, due to go online on 19 January 2016, will give customers the chance to test in advance new services still under …

AutoNews reports Ian Robertson, BMW AG board member for sales and marketing, saying that BMW will increase the i3’s range this year. This summer, the lithium ion battery pack of the compact EV will be improved, “which puts it into a much more usable range,” Robertson said. No specific features …