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2012 F30 BMW 3-Series rendered Dare I say I miss Bangle?

2012 F30 BMW 3-Series rendered It's a shame that the new fleet of BMWs and Audis are all but undifferentiable to anyone except the people who read sites like this...

BMW DesignworksUSA teases the Intermarine 55 Way too similar to Azimut.

Mercedes GLK350 Hybrid Pikes Peak Rally Car by RENNtech [video] It's insulting to compare the Escudo to this! haha If this were really for Pikes Peak, they could/should have used a 4-matic C-class.

Opel Astra by EDS Motorsport That sounds like an MS3 and Focus RS beater! Nice.

BMW to offer new 2.0 liter four-cylinder exclusively with turbo That X1 is one ugly friggin' car...

MG relaunches in the UK Its most likely outside investors who have really have no connection with the "old" makers. They just use/pay-for the name because the brand identity is already developed, and it saves them marketing costs.

An automatic-only BMW M5? I did not know that! I'm quite surprised actually. I thought of all people, the Germans would want the stick.

An automatic-only BMW M5? Sacto, I think you're missing the point. I for one, along with most other manual enthusiasts, enjoy the mechanics and involvement associated with a stick. I could honestly care less if there's some fancy automatic that can shift a fraction of a second faster than I can with three pedals... And I don't believe that cost or resources is a viable excuse for this. Along with this "all-new, redesigned" 5-series, they should have developed a transmission that worked. Lazy...

An automatic-only BMW M5? I don't believe it. Literally, I don't believe it. BMW knows their enthusiast customer base would not approve, and they can't risk lost sales -and legacy- for their flagship M model. BMW is big enough of a corporation that they will be able to at least outsource a transmission, or engineer one in the next 18 months until sales commence.