It has been a busy week for BMW at the Frankfurt Auto Show. Not only the Munich manufacturer officially unveil the BMW X1, 5-Series GT and the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept, it produced another first by introducing the cars on a circuit built inside its corner of the exhibit grounds.
Here, you will find three videos: BMW's opening ceremony, a review of the highlights, and a fun video of stunt rider Chris Pfeiffer riding his BMW F800R on top of the four-cylinder BMW tower!
[Source: BMW TV]
Earlier in the week, we brought you the first pictures and video of the exciting, ground-breaking BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept car. As mentioned in the post, BMW has built the Vision as a rolling representation of technologies it will adopt in the immediate future.
BMW has now released a second official video that sheds light on the design process of the Vision. Design geeks, rejoice!
Autocar reports that Toyota and BMW are in partnership talks that could see the two distinctly different companies exchanging platforms. Of interest to BMW is the next generation of Toyota's innovative iQ, "the world's smallest four-seat urban city car", which could underpin BMW's planned electric city car. This could see the resurrection of the Isetta brand name of the 1960s.
In return for the iQ chassis, Toyota would get access to the next generation Mini Coupe and Roadster platforms to extend its range of small urban cars.
The BMW tie-up would be the second cross-branding win for ...
After much anticipation, wrong guesses by the media, and a few teaser pictures, BMW has revealed what it imagines the future of its performance cars as being. Have no doubt that this highly-complex, advanced concept car is a very significant statement by BMW, signaling the company’s technological direction in the upcoming years. If you are a fan of automotive technology, read carefully what is surely the most technically dense report ever posted on rightpedal. Quite frankly, your writer’s head is still spinning from trying to absorb the details of all the marvelous technology introduced in the BMW Vision ...
Next month at the Frankfurt Auto Show, BMW will launch its first hybrid models, called the ActiveHybrid X6 and ActiveHybrid 7. Both cars feature BMW's gasoline, 4.4L, twin-turbo V8 engines mated to a Lithium-ion hybrid system co-developed by BMW and Daimler-Benz.
ActiveHybrid 7 has one electric motor, which as a backup unit to the V8, gives the hybrid 7-Series the 459 bhp and 561 lb-ft. The car reaches 62mph in 4.9sec, and returns a UK cycle 29.1mpg.
The ActiveHybrid X6, recognizable through its hood power dome, features two electric motors for a total of 478 bhp ...
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