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Car Insurance Costs - Least and Most Expensive Models

Car Insurance Costs - Least and Most Expensive Models

By Jeffrey Steele, Insure.com - Last updated: Feb. 21, 2014 If you want to save money on auto insurance, spring for an SUV or minivan. Insure.com's annual ranking of the vehicles with the best car insurance rates is dominated by non-sedans. A few years ago, minivans held a good grip on our "least expensive to insure" r ... Continue reading

BMW M6 Gran Coupé is the Anniversary Vehicle

BMW M6 Gran Coupé is the Anniversary Vehicle

BMW Plant Dingolfing has reached another milestone: Last Saturday, Dirk Werner, BMW driver in the German Touring Car Championship DTM, and Robert Küssel, Head of Assembly, presented the nine-millionth BMW vehicle made in Dingolfing to its new owners, Dirk and Heidi Schulz from Hamburg. ... Continue reading

The New BMW 2 Series Active Tourer

The New BMW 2 Series Active Tourer

The new BMW 2 Series Active Tourer sees BMW for the first time expand its portfolio to introduce front-wheel-drive and three cylinder engines in the model line-up. Following on from the coupé as the second member of the new BMW 2 Series range, the Active Tourer combines dynamism, style, elegance and practicality in ... Continue reading

BMW Group UK Announces 2013 Dealer Award Winners

BMW Group UK Announces 2013 Dealer Award Winners

BMW Group UK presented Halliwell Jones, Warrington with the prestigious BMW Dealer of the Year Award at an awards ceremony held at its National Dealer Conference last night ... Continue reading

BMW will be the first manufacturer worldwide to offer a production vehicle equipped with headlamps featuring a completely new laser light concept

BMW will be the first manufacturer worldwide to offer a production vehicle equipped with headlamps featuring a completely new laser light concept

From autumn, BMW will be the first manufacturer worldwide to offer a production vehicle equipped with headlamps featuring a completely new laser light concept. With this laser light technology, which was first presented at the 2011 Frankfurt International Motor Show, the BMW i8 (fuel consumption combined: 2.1-0.0 l/100 ... Continue reading

BMW Group Has record sales for 2013

BMW Group Has record sales for 2013

Deliveries climb 6.4% to 1,963,798 units New all-time highs for BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brands BMW Group expects further growth in sales in 2014 Munich. The BMW Group sold more vehicles in 2013 than ever before in the company’s history. A total of 1,963,798 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles were delivered world ... Continue reading

Laser Headlight Shine In BMW Production Model

Laser Headlight Shine In BMW Production Model

By Henny Hemmes Senior European Editor The Auto Channel THE HAGUE, February 10, 2014. In January, Audi unveiled its Sport quattro Laser Conscept with laser light technology at the Consumer Electronics Show. But it was not the first time that we saw the technology on a concept car. The premiere was for its competitor fr ... Continue reading

2014 Chicago Auto Show - The Auto Channel's Purdy And Cannell Wrap-up

2014 Chicago Auto Show - The Auto Channel's Purdy And Cannell Wrap-up

CHICAGO AUTO SHOW 2014 HIGHLIGHTS By Steve Purdy and Thom Cannell TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau lede photo CannellChicagoAuto2014-6062 Chicago February 9, 2014; Your TACh team was all over the Chicago Auto Show this week as a variety of manufacturers made news. Characteristically, here in the Windy City (and it wa ... Continue reading

First-Ever U.S. Television Commercials for BMW i to Begin Airing on February 7 During Olympic Games

First-Ever U.S. Television Commercials for BMW i to Begin Airing on February 7 During Olympic Games

BMW of North America, the Official Mobility Partner of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), will tune into the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games tonight at 7:30pm ET on NBC, which is expected to be one of the most-watched television events of 2014. During NBC's broadcast of the event, BMW i ... Continue reading

BMW Group U.S. Reports January 2014 Sales

BMW Group U.S. Reports January 2014 Sales

BMW brand sales up 10.5 percent MINI brand sales down 30.9 percent BMW Motorcycle sales down .5 percent Woodcliff Lake, NJ – February 3, 2014… The BMW Group in the U.S. (BMW and MINI combined) reported January sales of 20,796 vehicles, an increase of 3 percent from the 20,195 vehicles sold in the same month a ... Continue reading

BMW Group Welcomes Team USA to Munich, Bids Athletes “Good Luck” in Sochi

BMW Group Welcomes Team USA to Munich, Bids Athletes “Good Luck” in Sochi

BMW of North America, the Official Mobility Partner of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), will host members of the USA Bobsled & Skeleton Federation and U.S. Speedskating teams today at its BMW Welt facility at BMW Group’s headquarters in Munich as part of a “Good Luck” send off prior to the Sochi 2014 Olym ... Continue reading

The 2014 BMW 740Ld xDrive

The 2014 BMW 740Ld xDrive

BMW announced today that the BMW 7 Series would become the latest model line to benefit from BMW Advanced Diesel technology in the US in the form of the BMW 740Ld xDrive Sedan. The new model will feature BMW’s 3.0-liter TwinPower Turbo diesel engine in the long-wheelbase 7 Series body and will include xDrive, BMW’s i ... Continue reading

"Best Cars 2014": MINI Continues its Winning Streak

"Best Cars 2014": MINI Continues its Winning Streak

Just a few weeks before the launch of the new model generation, MINI yet again demonstrates its ongoing popularity, continuing an impressive series of victories thanks to readers of the automobile magazine "auto, motor und sport". ... Continue reading

BMW Announces Pricing For Five Latest 2014 Models

BMW Announces Pricing For Five Latest 2014 Models

Woodcliff Lake, NJ – January 29, 2014… BMW Motorrad USA has announced pricing for the five latest 2014 Model Year motorcycles set to be introduced late winter / early spring 2014. These five models complete BMW Motorrad USA’s entire 2014 model lineup, which now includes 20 models. BMW’s 2014 modelâ ... Continue reading

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