I remember being seven years old playing at the park and making friends with a couple of random children atop the tube slide. In an ever-so-spontaneous manner, one of the kids, aged approximately four years, suggested we all scream as loud as we could to see how much volume we could produce, so we all […] More »

I have a theory about the BMW i3: the less you know about it, the more you hate it. When BMW first announced this car, I knew nothing about it, and I hated it. I thought the i3 was a nail in the coffin for BMW. This funky-looking electric car seemed like a complete departure […] More »

The i3-versus-M3 drag race you are about to see only lasts eight seconds, but for five of those seconds the i3 beats the M3. Chalk up that partial victory to 100 percent of the electric i3’s 184 lb-ft of torque being available at zero rpm. After those first five seconds, though, the BMW M3’s 414 horsepower attains […] More »

These photos of the week feature at 200o BMW M5 dressed in sumptuous Imola Red. The current owner, Evan Patak, known on our forums as “ucsbwsr” is selling this beauty for $19,999. This E39 has an extensive list of mods. You can check them out here on the car’s forum thread. Here’s a video of […] More »

The BMW M2 is about two years away from showrooms and about $55,000 away from empty wallets, which means you have time to save for one if your wallet falls into the empty category. Above (and in the gallery below) is a rendering of the upcoming BMW M2 for you to slap on your dream […] More »

An athlete must be exercised, and the E39 BMW M5 – arguably the best M5 ever – is a machine deserving of some exercise. YouTube user “iloveredline” thought he’d capture the exercising in action, and the video that results is filled with the types of sounds that are perfect for cheering you up on a Monday […] More »

Engine swaps are generally the domain of low-horsepower fourth to sixth-gen Honda Civics, or underpowered cars like the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ that get LS3s stuffed between the strut towers. LS3 swaps are like putting Stephen Hawking’s high-powered brain into a bantamweight fighter’s body. It’s rare to see amply powered cars like the E39 […] More »