My girlfriend and I recently took a 2017 BMW i3 with Range Extender from Austin to Corpus Christi, Texas to celebrate our one-year anniversary on the coast. It was a learning experience in more than one way. In fact, I’ve counted how many lessons it taught me.

In the 1997 movie “Tomorrow Never Dies,” James Bond gets the keys to a BMW 750iL, a long, sleek, V12-powered super sedan. The vehicle you see here is not a Bond car.

It was time to see how the 2017 BMW 530i behaved in curves. I turned left onto City Park Road, the curviest ribbon of pavement in Austin, Texas I could think of…

The 2017 model year is the dawn of an era, the beginning of a new generation – the BMW 5 Series’ seventh, to be exact. It’s a time of new engines, more power, and less weight. We’ve been given a week to experience it behind the wheel of a Mediterranean Blue Metallic 530i.

When BMW dropped off a 2017 X4 M40i for us to review, we took a long, hard look at it. We had the keys, the window sticker…and preconceived notions about it.

Although BMWs are known as the ultimate driving machines, some of them are more ultimate than others. According to automotive journalist and Youtuber Doug DeMuro, the M2 is the most ultimate driving machine.