Here the new 2012 BMW 3 Series, a new face features headlights that puddle in toward the chrome-wrapped kidneys and a broad, blunt-faced front bumper that creates a sort of grimacing overbite into the lower grille. Move around to the sides and tail, and it all looks very familiar, even though the new car is 1.9 inches longer in wheelbase and 3.7 inches longer overall, which gives it more of [...]

The 2013 BMW X1 is not only a rather tiny crossover, it also is slightly odd-looking with its long hood, upright windshield and indented flanks. The face lift, launched at the New York auto show, doesn’t help much to alleviate this impression. BMW points out that the “larger number of surfaces painted in body color highlight the vehicle’s enhanced elegance.” This is a marked change in philosophy: The 2013 BMW [...]

This fall, the base 2012 BMW z4 and 5-series won’t have the perfectly demure and smooth-revving inline-six. Instead, the Z4 sDrive28i and the 528i will have a new turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder implanted between their front fenders. On paper, the engine is off to a good start. BMW claims the turbocharged 2.0-liter makes 240 hp at 6500 rpm and 260 lb-ft of torque at a low 1250 rpm. The redline is [...]