Tonycocks - BMW cars

For 2010, the Acura TL is once again offered with a manual gearbox. But you're probably going to have to special-order it, or at least do some calling and searching to even find one.

After launching a test fleet of electrically-driven Mini E cars, BMW has turned its attention to its own model range regarding an electric future by presenting at the Detroit Motor Show a concept study of an all-electric BMW 1-Series. The BMW Concept ActiveE is powered by a new synchronous electric motor with an output of 125 kW/170 hp.

Dec 29th 2009 at 9:01AM BMW invited Luxist to its Performance Center in Spartanburg for some lessons on how to ride and how to drive.

Decisions, decisions. Every year, we make our choice for the Motor Trend Car of the Year, now we leave this choice up to you: which of our last 11 Car of the Years should take home the crown as the unofficial Motor Trend Car of the Decade.

Volkswagen AG's Audi brand aims to add eight models by 2015, challenging Bayerische Motoren Werke AG as the world's largest maker of luxury cars.

Even so, the X5 has never been a knockout, at worst being inoffensive, though its interior is accommodating.

With the decade coming to a close, Traverse City-based Hagerty Insurance Agency Inc., which insures collector cars, has named its top picks of the most influential cars of 2000-09. Here are the cars that Hagerty contends will be the most collectible in the future with its selected comments on the picks: 1. 2000 BMW M Roadster.

Now that BMW has finally unveiled its all-new F10 5-Series, everyone has since wondered "what will the next M5 look like?" autospies.com/gallery/2011-BMW-5-Series-144/page5/">2011 BMW 5-Series Photo Gallery Perhaps this will give us a hint, but the question I ask is simple: is this is heading in the right direction? Do you want to see the M5 with a ...

Next month's 2010 Detroit Auto Show will see the world debuts of four new BMW vehicles, three of them headed to showrooms and one a preview of what the automaker has in store for the future.

Those of us who remember diesel-powered hatchbacks of the '70s as loud, dirty and troublesome may have to adjust our thinking to see them as "Green Cars." But the diesel-powered Audi A3 TDI won the title of Green Car of the Year at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show, following in the tracks of Jetta TDI, another diesel from Audi's parent Volkswagen.