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On the top floor of a Las Vegas casino garage, the company demonstrated how a modified version of its BMW i3 electric car can autonomously park itself and then can come pick you up when you're ready to go–BMW calls it the Remote Valet Parking …
In a nondescript industrial building in suburban Detroit, a $50,000 BMW is lying in pieces. The place looks like an illegal chop shop, where stolen vehicles are disassembled to be sold as parts. The body is on the floor, the chassis propped on a stand …
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SHANGHAI— BMW AG 's relations with its dealers in China are becoming increasingly strained, with some saying they won't take new vehicles unless the German auto maker agrees to lower sales targets and pay them subsidies. Executives at two BMW …
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Spotty electric-car infrastructure isn't just an issue in Berlin, but a critical part of the segment globally. BMW competitor Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) has tried to win over customers with its own series of fast-charging stations. Tesla has about 280 …
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Lexus, which has ambitions to catch BMW one day, is thinking in the same direction. Greg Penske of Penske Motor Group has been employing “Lexperts” at Longo Lexus in El Monte, Calif., and Lexus of Stevens Creek in San Jose, Calif., for about three years.
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Street lights are already brimming with electricity, so it stands to reason that they'd make great charging points for electric cars, doesn't it? BMW certainly thinks so. It has developed Light and Charge LED street lights that could keep your EV …
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Industry analysts, who focus on car makers' earnings before interest and taxes, or EBIT, as a better sign of a company's underlying performance, said BMW's report beat expectations. BMW reported an operating profit margin at its automotive division of …
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More than a few skeptical voices were raised in 1994 when BMW bought the failed assets of British Motor Corporation. BMW left the Brits mostly alone until 2000, disposing of Rover and Land Rover when that strategy failed. BMW decided to hang on to MINI …
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And I even got a thumbs-up from other BMW drivers — an oddity indeed, as Bimmer guys never seem to acknowledge one another. It's inevitable that people will compare the i8 to Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)'s Model S. It's a fatuous comparison. Yes, they're …
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BMW outlined plans to build a factory near San Luis Potosi, central Mexico, in a move that will reduce the German company's dependence on higher-cost plants at home. The plant will begin assembling unspecified models in 2019 with an initial workforce …
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How much do women in China love BMW's Mini? Perhaps a bit too much for Mini's comfort. Almost 80 percent of Mini owners in China are women, the highest level among any car brand, J.D. Power & Associates estimates. Now, the company is taking pains to …
It's safe to say that Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has the high-end luxury electric car market locked down, at least for the time being. Arguably, the Tesla's closest competitor is the Fisker Karma, a car not even in production anymore (at least so far …
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Germany's BMW is turning a costly necessity to reduce fuel consumption into a profit generating virtue. The world's biggest premium car maker is currently cranking up the publicity machine for the August launch of its i8 plug-in hybrid two-seater supercar.
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Frank Lloyd Wright called the practice of architecture “sublimated mathematics,” and I invite you to think of car design the same way. Beneath the wind-raked, time-traveling skin of the BMW i8 luxury hybrid lurk a lot of large and unesthetic numbers.
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BMW is dropping heavy hints that it's brand of luxury can be even more luxurious. That, in turn, is making some wonder if we're getting the first look at what could be come a superluxury BMW, a 9 Series. The car mockup being shown at the 2014 Beijing …
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AUSTIN, Texas — I have news for you: Electric cars can do donuts. In a recent test drive inside BMW's new i3 electric car, we tested this theory in a small Austin parking lot. To be fair, we never truly "spun" around, but that's only because I was …
Cadillac "is now much more suitable for European markets than it used to be," he said ahead of the Geneva International Motor Show that begins this week and provides a showplace for Europe's biggest auto announcements. "The brand's revival in Europe …
Moloughney's frequent advocacy for the BMW i3 has made him a general source of information about the car, and now he's started to get questions from dealers, including "BMW Genius" staff. 2014 BMW i3 (German-market version), Amsterdam, Oct 2013.
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It's easy to think that BMW has gone off the deep end. With models like the ugly 3 Series GT and seemingly redundant 4 Series Gran Coupe, the German automaker is branching out into every niche it can find, whether the resulting cars make sense or not.
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Michael Scully has raced cars and snowboards, so he wasn't expecting any surprises when he took his first ride in a bobsled in October 2011. For the BMW (BMW:GR) designer, who has 20 years experience building speed machines, the minute-long, …
The revival of interest in artist Alexander Calder is capturing hearts in the automotive world. The first art car that the American painter and sculptor created for BMW, the BMW 3.0 CSL "Batmobile" GT racer, is going to be one of the features at the …
As is the way of the Internet, someone has jumped the gun and given the world a peek at the new 2014 BMW M3 sedan and M4 coupe. While BMW is surely furious, we're quite thankful. Images leaked by BMW Blog show styling is essentially what was …
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It abounds with more or less obvious rip-offs of other cars and brands unknown to anyone not residing in Mainland China. Now we can add one more noggin-scratcher to the mix: Zinoro, BMW's Chinese market brand. Actually, if you go to the Zinoro website, …
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For years BMW has used "the ultimate driving machine" as a tagline for its vehicles. But for the new i3 plug-in electric vehicle (EV), "the ultimate electro-mobility machine" might be more accurate since it's an entirely different beast. And after …
In building its first battery-electric vehicle, BMW has done precisely what it has been saying for three years it would do: build what may be the world's best electric city car. The question is simply whether that's relevant to a country where no head …
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The mysterious and elusive Quandt family is in hot water again, nearly two years after its Nazi connections during World War II were exposed. The German family's patriarch, Herbert Quandt, nearly single-handedly saved BMW from being bought out by …
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — By now, the car market is basically flooded with electric car models. Now comes BMW. None of the models out there sell particularly well compared to conventional cars, and some of them are being done only to meet sales requirement …
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Thanks to its wildly popular 3 Series, in August, BMW (NASDAQOTH: BAMXF ) saw its brand sales surge 45.7% compared with the same time last year. Even better? The 3 Series dominated sales compared with Daimler's (NASDAQOTH: DDAIF ) …