BMW Models

Not even close. The BMW X5 has stormed past the Audi Q7 in America this year, building a lead of more than 50,000 sales. Two luxury SUVs that have traded blows since the first Q7 arrived some 20 years ago now look worlds apart on the sales charts. One is …

Four-wheel drive. One seriously rapid little M2. BMW has handed its retro-styled M2 Turbo Edition a new all-wheel-drive xDrive version, and it launches even harder than the original. The catch is pure geography, because this sharper weapon heads only to India. American enthusiasts, who got the first batch, are left …

The 760i is finished. In its place storms the new BMW M760, an M Performance flagship that plugs the V8-shaped gap left in the facelifted 7 Series earlier this year. BMW promised the eight-cylinder would return, and Munich has kept its word. Power climbs to around 570hp, a healthy jump …

One million. On 2 October, a G80 BMW M3 Competition rolled off the line in Munich and became the millionth car ever built by BMW M. The milestone lands 54 years after the performance division was born. It also coincides with the M3’s 40th birthday, which makes the timing perfect. …

Not dead. Not safe either. BMW M boss Frank van Meel insists the manual gearbox is “not off the table”, yet he flatly refuses to make any promises. For anyone who rows their own gears in a BMW M2, that answer brings relief with a sting in the tail. Keeping …