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Sixth gen’s a charm Location: Lisbon, Portugal When attempting to replace a successful and popular car, there can be a myriad of challenges. When that car has been in existence for five model generations and close to 40 years, those challenges can be all but insurmountable. So when it came time to create the all-new [...]

With thanks to a diligent BMW forum reader this morning, CarAdvice can bring you this video of the upcoming BMW 3 Series replacement (chassis code: F30) winter testing in Europe. Likely to debut in late 2011 as a 2012 model, the new 3 Series was heavily disguised in body cladding and BMW’s nowwell-known psychedelic camouflage. [...]

With the next generation BMW 1-Series due to arrive in 2011, prototype mules wearing the current body have been spotted in the early stages of testing. Following a mid-life facelift performed in 2007, the new 1-Series spied in BMW’s typical psychedelic camouflage will sport an all-new look along with a rumoured new body style. Talking [...]

I wonder if there’s a car out there that’s part beefy crossover, part luxury sedan, and part hot hatch, and on top of all this good for the environment too? That’s right, someone asked the question this time, so no jokes about the new BMW ActiveHybrid X6 being the motoring world’s oxymoronic rhetorical answer. After [...]

Armoured prestige vehicles are certainly nothing new; BMW and Mercedes-Benz have purpose built models developed specifically to keep their VIP owners out of harm’s way. But explosives and firearms testing is something we haven’t come across before, and it makes for some interesting viewing – especially when applied to a million-dollar Rolls-Royce Phantom. Via: es.Autoblog.com [...]