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BMW eighth series Kyoto sedan absorbed the spirit of Japan

September 7, 2020 by Tommy Sessions

BMW often produces some special and limited editions of its models. But even against their background sedan BMW M850i xDrive Gran Coupe Kyoto Edition surprises. This product of BMW Individual Manufaktur will be released specially for the Japanese market in just three copies. The source of inspiration was the lacquered dishes in the traditional Kyoto style.

The two-color upholstery in merino leather is supplemented with lacquer inserts with an unusual ornament in the Kyoto Edition. The drawing on the console expresses “the joy of jogging” and also creates a kind of bridge between history and modernity. According to the website tirewheelguide.com, the novelty is equipped with high performance Pirelli tires. After all, the technology of lacquered products was born in Japan six thousand years ago. By the sixth century AD it reached the level of art and was used to produce luxury goods for the imperial family and the upper classes. In Europe, the lacquer got only in the sixteenth century. Lacquered products immediately charm the aristocracy. Now the traditional Japanese art is combined with the technology of the modern BMW brand in an effort to show “new luxury”.

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Sedan infinitas Hurricane 2 swung to the speed record.

June 21, 2020 by Tommy Sessions

In 2010, the four-door G-Power M5 Hurricane RR (based on the M5 E60) set a world speed record of 372.1 km/h for sedans allowed on public roads. The designers of the machine assure that it has kept this record for ten years. However, it is worth remembering the test prototype of electric car Lucid Air, which showed 379 km/h in 2017. And the tuning project HPE1000 Twin Turbo CTS-V, for which the atelier Hennessey declared 386 km/h (we never heard about the check of this number). But soon the record should be clearly rewritten: about 400 km/h is claimed by infinitas Hurricane 2.

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New BMW M4 coupe will please drivers with manual transmission

April 27, 2020 by Tommy Sessions

BMW M4 spy photo
Two-door M recently went to the Nurburgring for final settings. Recall that while the best time for the Model M4 here was 7:27.88, it showed a limited variation of the M4 GTS in 2015.

The second generation of the BMW M4 coupe will retain the manual transmission in the range of versions. The order of the proposal may change. In the current coupe, the six-speed “mechanics” is the base, and the seven-speed robot DKG is an option. In the new fourth series, the robot will be the main kind of transmission, and manual transmission Germans will give some special variation. Unofficially, a prefix to the name Pure popped up. Several M4 test samples have recently been spotted in Germany, and at least one of them was three-pedal.

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Updated BMW’s fifth series went to the tests in the final form

April 4, 2020 by Tommy Sessions

At the front optics will change the lower edge and the pattern of daytime running lights.

The BMW fifth series is due to be updated this year. In the past, we saw an early prototype on tests, and now photo spies have brought the harvest in the form of a photoshoot of cars with a minimum amount of camouflage, both in the body of the sedan and wagon. Unlike the pictures of 2019, you can almost without interference the new headlights, grille and different versions of bumpers (the usual car and plug-in version they differ).

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BMW i8 hybrid to retire next month

April 4, 2020 by Tommy Sessions

“The car is at the last stage of the way to the BMW Sports Car Hall of Fame”

Production of the BMW i8 will be discontinued in mid-April 2020, the company said. Now the plant in Leipzig produces 200 samples of the farewell edition of Ultimate Sophisto. Its assembly began last year, and in December 2019 one of these samples became a twenty-thousandth copy of the i8. “It is the most successful sports car in the world with an electrified drive system,” the firm assures.

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