It won’t last a lifetime, but it should do two decades with minimal maintenance and little abuse. In this day and age, when ...

If you were to assemble a group of the best automakers in the world to build the perfect car, you might have Lamborghini style it, Mercedes do the interior, and Porsche design the chassis. A strong ...

BMW’s B58 straight-six arrived with a clear brief: deliver strong turbocharged performance without repeating the reliability headaches that had dogged some of the company’s earlier forced-induction ...

German automaker BMW has a long history of making inline-six engines, going all the way back to the early 1930s with the M78 engine. As the decades have passed, there have been many reconfigurations ...

BMW has a long history of engineering excellence, and since the beginning of this century has produced some iconic powerplants. This era represents the brand's shift from high-revving, naturally ...

The BMW Group Plant Hams Hall in England recently marked its 25th anniversary and has produced over 7.6 million engines since operations began in 2001. It opened in 2001 with its first product being ...

BMW is readying its next-generation EVs, but that doesn’t mean it’s done with the combustion engine just yet. The German automaker’s chief technology officer, Joachim Post, revealed that the company ...

Inline-six engines used to be a staple of mainstream motoring, from family sedans to workhorse pickups. Today, only a small circle of manufacturers still invests in this long, smooth layout, keeping ...

In every way possible, from design to performance to financial stability, the original Neue Klasse ("New Class") cars of the 1960s and '70s defined what we understand BMW to be today. That BMW's next ...

When you really need 450 horsepower from a small and lightweight engine, where are you going to turn first? Chances are, your mind probably goes to something like a turbocharged Honda K-series engine, ...

We pick some of the best BMW from the past 26 years. This is the era where it shifted focus from naturally aspirated screamers to turbocharged monsters. BMW-best-engines-article Highlights BMW's top ...