BMW’s new hybrid cars will automatically switch off their combustion engines in heavily polluted inner city areas and use pure electric driving mode as a way to cut vehicle emissions, the carmaker said on Tuesday. BMW’s efforts to optimize the environmental impact of hybrid cars with engine cut off functions, comes as the auto industry struggles to sell purely electric vehicles, which accounted for only 1.5% of total car sales globally last year.

Coming in 2020 for around $35,000 with just 146 miles of range.

BMW has not released the car for test drives yet, but on paper it looks like it will be more agile than competitors like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt.

The BMW M4 Coupe Concept previews the replacement for the M3 Coupe. The production version is set to wow audiences at the Detroit auto show in January.

We know that all of you are bored of all these BMW i8 spy shots and want to see the production version, but today we bring you another set of images. These ones certainly carry some importance, as they reveal the BMW i8 testing at the Nürburgring race track for the very first time.

BMW has converted its i3 electric hatchback into a three-door. Munich might call it the new BMW i3 Concept Coupe.

Now, a couple of studies, one in the U.S. and another from the U.K., appear to provide statistical evidence that BMW drivers are, to be polite about it, complete jerks.

BMW group has unveiled the production version of their first purely electrically powered super car, the 'BMW i8', at the international motor show (IAA) 2013 in frankfurt. the plug-in hybrid combines the dynamic capabilities of a super car with fuel consumption and emissions you would normally expect from a small city car

345 horsepower. 516 pound-feet of torque. Zero to 62 mph in 4.5 seconds. 54 combined miles per gallon. These are the numbers behind the new Alpina D3 Bi-Turbo

BMW is a company that pretty much everyone loves. The cars it produces are regarded as some of the best in the world, and as it covers all niches there's a BMW for pretty much everyone. We took a look at the history of its roadsters to see just how far the firm's come since the early 20th century.

The G-Power name has become synonymous with extreme BMWs; that’s because for the past 30 years the tuning firm has been churning out some of the fastest examples of the German luxury cars on the planet.

When the BMW i8 official debuted, I was a bit surprised by, well, its lack of power. Carefully sculpted from carbon fiber and aluminum, the i8 has the looks and price tag of a much more powerful car. Turns out, my feelings were on the money, as BMW had toyed with three other powerplants for the i8, including a V10, V8 and a six-cylinder.

Almost 10 years after the introduction of the BMW 1 series, the german manufacturer has expanded their premium lineup of compact vehicles by introducing the 2 series coupe.

When I say officially, I mean it. The BMW i3 got ISO certificates 14040/14044 from Germany's respected TÜV inspectors on the car's carbon footprint and product life cycle, and it's very good news for polar bears.

Mini production is set to kick off in the Netherlands next summer, and in celebration of that, a team from the VDL Nedcar factory has restored a classic, 1959 Austin Seven.

It's rumored to have 640 to 670 horsepower, thanks to an upgraded version of the M5's direct-injected 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8. It can go 0-62 in about 3 seconds, is made from materials such as carbon fiber and titanium -- which could give it the best power-to-weight ratio of any BMW street car - and is the first supercar from the blue-spinner crew since 1981.

The BMW M3 returns as a saloon only, and with turbocharged six-cylinder power for the very first time. The adoption of turbo power dispenses with 26 years of BMW M division tradition of using high-revving naturally aspirated engines for the M3.

BMW has announced a partnership with SAP, an international software manufacturer and according to the press release, is going to "develop solutions for context-adaptive, personalised filtering of large volumes of real-time offers generated by location-based service providers".

BMW have unveiled the 4 Series Gran Coupe ahead of its public debut at the Geneva motor show in March. The 4 Series Gran Coupe is the latest addition to the 4 Series line-up, which includes the Coupe, Cabriolet and the M4.

Laser lights offer a number of advantages over the best lighting technology available on cars today, LED lighting. LEDs themselves already offer several advantages in terms of light output, energy use and finer control over incandescent or gas discharge lighting and lasers take that a step further.