Paul Walker, known for his role as Brian O’Connor in the Fast & Furious franchise, died today in a car crash in the community of Valencia in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles north of Hollywood. Walker was also known as a BMW aficionado and raced in the past with an E92 M3 in the RedLine

Over 1 million current MINI Hatch models built at Plant Oxford between 2006 – 2013 1,863,289 total MINI Hatch built since 2001 14% of all cars built in the UK last year were MINIs, and 14% exported were MINIs The new MINI Hatch production starts, with UK launch in Spring 2014 Having put a smile

Year-to-date, the BMW Group U.S. (BMW and MINI combined) is up 9.2 percent on sales of 331,801 in the first eleven months of 2013 compared to 303,728 in the same period in 2012. In November, BMW Group U.S. sales (BMW and MINI combined) totaled 36,327 vehicles, a slight decrease of 0.4 percent from the 36,461

The latest music app to launch on MINI Connected offers Amazon customers a convenient way of accessing their audio files on the online store’s Cloud server, using their smartphone in conjunction with the MINI hub. It can be downloaded for free from the App Store and installed in the vehicle via the customer’s Apple iPhone.

The BMW Group reported record monthly sales for November. With 174,996 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles delivered worldwide, sales were 2.7% higher than for the same month last year (prev. yr.: 170,461). Between January and November 2013, sales increased by 6.8% to reach a new all-time high of 1,777,017 vehicles (prev. yr.: 1,663,615). Ian Robertson,

Today, the BMW Group has hosted an official function to celebrate the groundbreaking for a new plant in Brazil. The event took place at the new plant grounds in Araquari, Santa Catarina with participation of Michel Temer, the Vice President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Raimundo Colombo, Governor of Santa Catarina and Ludwig Willisch,

BMW issues a recall over airbag issues. The recall affects certain MY2006 3 Series Sedans and Sports Wagons, MY2007 Sedans, 2006-2007 5 Series sedans/wagons and 2006 X5 models. The company says it discovered an issue with the front passenger seat occupant airbag detection therefore “Should the system fail, in the event of a crash, the

BMW issues one of the smallest recalls we have seen so far. Through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, BMW recalls three X3 models manufactured February 11, 2013, through February 27, 2013. “Due to a production process error” in the BMW X3, says the notice “the tear seam on the instrument panel was not manufactured

The BMW Group will showcase BMW ConnectedDrive and announce its future plans for highly automated driving at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center (3150 Paradise Road. Las Vegas, NV 89109). In addition, BMW will feature the all-electric BMW i3. BMW ConnectedDrive focuses on the link between the driver, vehicle and

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