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Melandri goes 1-2 at WSBK Monza races The 2013 World Superbike Championship took over Monza this weekend for round four of 15 in the series. BMW’s Marco Melandri went 1-2 at his home track. Thumbnail Image:  read more Z4 finishes on the podium in Monterey Dirk Müller moves into the GT points lead BMW Team [...]

BMW WTCC racer Mehdi Bennani finishes second in Hungary Mehdi Bennani in his Proteam BMW 320 TC finished second in race two when the World Touring Car Championship ran at the Hungaroring near Budapest. Bennani was also the best BMW finisher in race one, where he finished fifth. Bennani sprinted into the lead from the [...]

Davies, Melandri have a tough WSBK at Assen The BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team concluded a difficult Sunday at the “TT Circuit” in Assen (NED). Factory rider Chaz Davies (GBR) finished seventh and fifth after crashing in the morning’s warm-up. His BMW S 1000 RR was so badly damaged that the team had to prepare [...]

BMW Team RLL Z4s finish first and second at Long Beach BMW Team RLL’s Bill Auberlen and Maxime Martin won the GT class in the two-hour American Le Mans Series race in Long Beach, and their teammates Joey Hand and Dirk Müller finished second. It was the first win for new Z4 GTE, coming in the cars’ [...]

BMW's Chaz Davies wins BOTH WSBK races in Spain Welshman Chaz Davies triumphed in both races at the Spanish round of the Superbike World Championship. Thumbnail Image:  read more Z4 wins at the Ring A BMW Team Schubert Z4 GT3 won the four-hour VLN race on the Nordschleife at the Nürburgring on April 13. Dirk [...]

WTCC racer Coronel finishes sixth in Morocco The good news is that BMW has moved up since the first World Touring Car Championship weekend of the season in Monza; the bad news is that it’s still a long way to the podium. ROAL Motorsport’s Tom Coronel finished sixth in the second race in Marrakech in [...]

48 mpg promised from new 328d As gas prices head for $4 a gallon, with a likely $4.50 by Labor Day, say some pundits, every automaker is taking a slightly different path in their quest for fuel economy. BMW brought the 328d to the New York Auto Show with an impressive 48 mpg highway. Thumbnail [...]

Coronel and D’Aste are the best BMW WTCC finishers at Monza The eight BMW 320 TC racers on hand for the World Touring Car Championship season opener at Monza had a difficult weekend; the marque’s best finishers in race one were Tom Coronel in ninth and Fredy Barth in tenth. In race two, Stefano D’Aste, [...]

Z4s finish fourth and seventh in class at Sebring The performance of the new BMW Team RLL Z4 GTEs in the 12 Hours of Sebring made it clear that the cars would be contenders in the American Le Mans Series GT class in 2013. Both cars ran competitive lap times, and both were at or [...]

Plastic fantastic i8 at Geneva in final form After all the wallpaper test mules and the “will-they, won’t-they” styling questions, what looks like a production i8 is poised on the BMW stand at Geneva. And it’s impressive. Thumbnail Image:  read more $72 BMW 5 Series kit is pure Brilliance Copyright and international law aside, you’ve [...]