World Auto News & Reviews

BMW will give the go-ahead to a project that will see a super-luxury version of the MINI Cooper created by Rolls-Royce at the company’s Goodwood factory, a new report finds. Word of the MINI-Rolls tie-up first surfaced in June.
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At the season finale of the 2009 MotoGP in Valencia, BMW honored nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi with the ‘M Award’ for being the fastest man over the seventeen rounds of this year’s GP. The grand prize was a brand new BMW M3 Sedan, the fifth bimmer that Rossi has won in this competition over the past few years. Along with the award and the new car, BMW also gave Rossi the opportunity to get a taste of its new 450HP-strong M3 GTS Coupe, which made its first public debut at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit.
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An official BMW document from BimmerFile shows that the pricing of the new 2010 BMW 550i Gran Turismo will start at $64,725, including an $825 destination fee. The 550i Gran Turismo will be the only variant of the BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo that will be offered in the U.S. when it goes on sale in spring of 2010.
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BMW has long hinted at the return of four-cylinder engines to the U.S. market, but has been rather quiet about exactly which four-pots might be headed our way. However, BMW has broken the silence, revealing that four-cylinder diesels will be part of the German automaker’s U.S. plans.

Speaking with Edmunds, Tom Baloga, vice president of engineering for BMW of North America, revealed that BMW is planning to release four-cylinder diesel technology in the U.S. sometime next decade. The diesel four-cylinder will likely first surface in the 3-Series, but could eventually spread to the X3 and X5, and possibly even the 5-Series.
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Purists cried foul when BMW controversially switched from its famous in-line six-cylinder engine to V8 power for the latest generation M3.

Then they drove the car. Then they bought it – in record numbers.

BMW M, the luxury maker’s performance arm, has confirmed it will deliver the 1,000th M3 in Australia powered by a V8 engine in the coming weeks.
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