Entries Tagged as ‘BMW’

December 31, 2008

What’s your car of the year 2008?

Nissan GT-R, BMW X6, Skoda Superb… the editorial team had some varied suggestions for the title of Best Car of 2008.
Read their suggestions below and nominate your favourite cars of 2008.

December 22, 2008

What’s the best hot hatch? (Poll)

It’s the one question everyone in the office has a different answer to: what’s the best hot hatch?
Read which cars the editorial team picked as their favourite hot hatches - and nominate your hot hatch of choice in the comments.

December 15, 2008

Z4, S2000, Boxster… vote for the best roadster

BMW has announced an updated Z4 convertible, which will reach our shores in 2009.
It faces some tough competition, including the high-revving Honda S2000 and the fearsome Porsche Boxster.
Which do you think is the best roadster?

December 12, 2008

Which of the Sultan’s 3,000 cars would YOU blag?

Forget his 1,788 room mansion. Forget the private aeroplane with gold-plated furniture. Forget his Oxford Law degree – this man has more than 3,000 cars. THREE THOUSAND.
If driven all at the same time, his planet-eating collection would melt the polar icecaps and suck the ozone layer by Christmas. Probably.
You have think, surely he wouldn’t miss [...]

September 24, 2008

New BMW 3 Series - your verdict

BMW has made over 2,500 changes to its most important model – the new BMW 3 Series.
Famously out-selling the Ford Mondeo – one of the UK’s best-selling family cars – the BMW 3 Series has cemented its position at the top of the small saloon market.
But how does the new 3 Series compare with its [...]

June 18, 2008

Top Gear hits America

It’s like Top Gear… in America.
The UK’s biggest motoring programme hops across the pond to deliver high-octane thrills to the US – swapping Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May for a trio of American hosts in Top Gear USA.
The new series of Top Gear starts in the UK this Sunday with the familiar line [...]

June 12, 2008

The BMW 3 Series - Auto Trader’s most searched-for car

It’s the car which turned BMW into a giant; it’s one of the UK’s most popular motors – and it’s the most searched for car on Auto Trader.
The BMW 3 Series is one of the most popular cars in the UK thanks to its combination of outstanding handling, excellent build quality and the famous blue [...]

May 27, 2008

Should James Bond drive an Aston Martin or Bentley?

A row has broken out over which cars best represent Bond – Aston Martins or Bentleys.
While James Bond has been seen driving Astons in recent films like Casino Royale, the books have a slightly different legacy.
Ian Fleming’s original novels depicted Bond’s personal cars as Bentleys.

May 9, 2008

Just in: Lexus IS-F

It’s big, it’s black, and it’s got a 5-litre V8 engine. This should be fun.
Auto Trader has just taken delivery of an all-singing, all-dancing, brand-new Lexus IS-F – the car Lexus hopes will tempt buyers away from the German trinity of the BMW M3, Audi RS4 and Mercedes C63 AMG.
First impressions? Awesome.

April 28, 2008

Living with a convertible

I’ve got a Mazda MX-5 on loan at the moment and it came just in time for the first properly warm weekend of the year.
So I set off with my girlfriend for a countryside blast with the roof folded down and judging by the number of other convertibles we saw - Porsche Boxsters, BMW 3 [...]