BMW's most famous engines are usually found in cars hailing from its M performance division. High-revving and incredibly complex, they're great to listen to, but sometimes, they aren't the best choice ...

BMW’s straight-six raises the bar. Again. The rest of the car is nice, too. Can an engine make a car? Yes, and the BMW X3 M50 is proof. The latest version of the X3 may not be a perfect car, but when ...

BMW began its push toward electrification with a pair of purpose-built cars on carbon-fiber platforms, the i3 EV (with or without a gas-engine range extender) and the plug-in hybrid i8. For the M ...

The 2025 BMW X3 is on sale in the United States in two models, the four-cylinder 30 xDrive and the six-cylinder M50 xDrive (pictured). Photo: Uwe Fisher. Families have long bought the US-built BMW X3 ...

In the March issue we tackled some common and not-so-common power adders for the S50 3.0 and S52 3.2 motors found in '95-99 BMW E36 M3s (and some first-generation Z3 M Roadsters). We followed that in ...