BMW M Series

BMW has built a 717hp M5 Touring police car, and it is every bit as menacing as it sounds. The one-off estate wears the blue, white and fluorescent yellow livery used by Germany’s Federal Police. A light bar sits on the roof. Anyone thinking of outrunning it on the autobahn …

One car, one colour, and nobody else has it. Of the 1,036 BMW M4 CSLs that rolled out of the factory, just one wears Frozen Tampa Bay Green, a matt shade plucked from the BMW Individual catalogue. Its owner ignored the official palette and went their own way. The result …

Four motors, one badge and zero apologies. BMW has dropped fresh teaser images of the all-electric BMW M3, and the timing is no accident because Munich has just rolled out its millionth M car. This prototype tames the wild M Concept Neue Klasse into something you could park outside the …

Purple, everywhere. Larte Design has taken the BMW XM, already the most outrageous SUV in the BMW line-up, and dressed it in a 17-piece carbon fibre body kit tinted to match the paint. The result is a plug-in hybrid bruiser that looks built for a nightclub car park rather than …

Leaving Karuizawa early the following morning felt like stepping into a completely different realm. The previous day’s adrenaline-drenched baptism down Usui Pass, that violent, claustrophobic sensory overload that left my brain buzzing and lips bone dry, was behind us. Realising the sheer amount of ground left to cover across the …