Posts Tagged “BMW”

No Car For You! BMW’s 1 Series M Officially Sold Out :(

By | April 3, 2012

Today is a day to remember. It’s the first day any Daily Derbi article has ever used an emoticon in the title. It’s the day we found out Jeremy Clarkson really is on Twitter. It’s also the day that BMW verified with the world the news no one wanted to hear: the 1-Series M is [...]

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Video: 2012 Nissan GT-R vs BMW M5 w/ Poll

By | February 2, 2012

Often times the most unconventional match ups make for the most entertaining. Top Gear’s epic comparison of a Daihatsu Materia and an Ascari A10 comes to mind immediately. Autocar decided to go down the same route, albeit not quite as radical of a comparison as Top Gear did, and had the new BMW F10 M5 [...]

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Spreading Your Brand Thin: BMW Will Make A 3-Series Gran Turismo

By | January 30, 2012

One of the very first posts I ever wrote on the Daily Derbi was about how I absolutely hated the BMW 5-Series GT, basically an unsporty 5-series with a sporty sounding Gran Turismo abbreviation on it’s backside. It was and still is an incredibly heavy and incredibly ugly version of easily the best full-sized sports sedan available [...]

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Can Diesel-Powered BMWs Wear An M Badge?

By | January 27, 2012

For the past several years, BMW’s purebred, performance oriented M lineup of vehicles has been loosing sight of what the M badge actually means. The M division really first established its name in the early days by turning the already good 3-series into the sensationally good M3. The same can be said with the insanely [...]

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Weekend Wallpaper: Joy

By | December 25, 2011

On a day that is typically meant for gathering of friends, family, and loved ones, nothing much to say this weekend, other then JOY! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Download link Weekend Wallpaper is a weekly series featuring the auto photography of Mike Gillilan. You can see more of his work on Flickr

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Weekend Wallpaper: #90 Team RLR BMW M3 GT2

By | December 18, 2011

This is the Team RLR (Rahal Letterman Racing) #90 BMW M3 GT2. This may look familiar, as I’ve talked about it’s newer, slower, sister car, the Team RLL BMW M3 GT before. Yes, I did say the newer car was slower. Specs are similar, same 4.0L V8, aluminum block & heads, etc. But this GT2 [...]

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