Right now, I’m sitting in a gorgeous ninth floor room at the W Hotel in South Beach. The ocean view is breathtaking. The weather is tropical. The guaranteed madness of the 2014 Gumball 3000 lies ahead. And like sharks poised for a feeding frenzy, angry supercars circle the surrounding streets. A few minutes ago, one of […] More »

You can’t be totally prepared for the Gumball 3000. The full-frontal assault of ferocious supercars, exotic locales and block-rocking parties is enough to turn the brains of most mortals into an exhaust-rattled, octane-spiked blob of tapioca pudding.

The ladies of AnastasiaDate are running the legendary Gumball 3000, and in a radiant illustration of why it’s better to be lucky than smart, I’ll be tagging along to document the insanity. Live coverage starts June 4th!

Another day, another recall. If you own a 2014 BMW X5 with the Soft Close Automatic option built December 12, 2013, through March 10, 2014, expect to be contacted by the automaker.

If you’ve looked at the 320-horsepower BMW M235i Coupe and made this sound: Mmmmmm, you’re not alone. The Ultimate Driving Machine company has as well, but it came out much shorter: M.

Since 2007, Brad Pitt’s Make It Right charity has constructed 100 eco-friendly homes in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. Someone at a recent MIR fundraising gala won an equally green car in a raffle: the all-electric, zero-emission i3 donated by BMW, as well as the chance to hear the lovely Sandra Bullock call out his or her name.

BMW must be allergic to vinyl because the psychedelic vinyl wrapping in these spy shots does little to hide what’s supposed to be a disguised developmental vehicle. In fact, from certain angles, the test mule tells you you’re looking at a “Hybrid Test Vehicle” – the plug-in hybrid version of the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer, to be exact.