Forget cruise control. Now, a newly released video shows what a completely hands-free driving experience might look like. Based on BMW’s Connected Drive Connect (CDC) system, the footage shows a BMW 5 series model driving along Germany’s Autobahn. With the car in CDC “real-time mode,” the human driver is able to keep his hands off the wheel [...]
LAS VEGAS — The most striking innovation on display this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, the world’s largest consumer tech tradeshow, came not from Silicon Valley, but from Detroit. The vehicles on display underscored a sea change taking place in the automotive industry, one driven by carmakers’ relentless attempts to distinguish their wares by [...]
It’s not every day that concept cars go up for grabs. The automakers and design studios that craft them typically hold on to their show cars for posterity, putting them away in archives that we’d imagine resemble the end scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark or else putting them in their own museums for [...]
It started with a four-cylinder, graduated to six and then eight cylinders, and now might be settling back down to six. The next-generation F80 BMW M3, caught testing around the homeland, has let its voice be heard, and the suspicions are that a V6, not a BMW-traditional inline six, rumbles through those pipes. Bimmerfile posits [...]
LG Group has taken up legal arms against both BMW and Audi over a patent dispute. The technology company is reportedly aiming to have the sale of vehicles from both German automakers banned in South Korea over an LED patent dispute. According to Korea Times, LG Group is claiming that Osram, the manufacturer of LEDs [...]
As recent rumors suggested, BMW is, in fact, growing its hybrid offerings, though battery power may not be headed to the 3 Series just yet. The German automaker has just unveiled a new production ActiveHybrid 5. The vehicle is based on the 535i, and pairs the company’s turbocharged inline six-cylinder engine with a 55-horsepower electric [...]
It looks like BMW may be spreading its ActiveHybrid technology to the 3 Series line in the near future. Autobild is reporting that a battery-laden model will debut shortly after the 2012 3 Series arrives on dealer lots early next year. The report suggests that the company’s forced-induction four-cylinder will also show up behind the [...]
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