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Just when you thought the XM couldn’t be even more striking–not necessarily for the right reasons–here comes this unique contraption. BMW teamed up with Naomi Campbell to create a polarizing version of the flagship M model. Why purple? That's the supermodel's favorite color. The company's chief designer Domagoj Dukec took to Instagram to share images of the wild-looking performance SUV.
I was gobsmacked after finding Polaris' UTV tank patent last week. The concept left me daydreaming about the possibilities for when the company would put it on sale. If Polaris put it on sale. Imagine all the places you could go...
Aston Martin wants to capitalize on the huge success of its DBX SUV by turning it into a Land Rover Defender rival. Banking on the growing demand for off-roaders, the Gaydon-based company is analyzing the prospects of launching a posh go-anywhere vehicle. Autocar reports the new derivative is internally known as "Project Rambo," a nod to the LM002 "Rambo Lambo."
Bentley recently bid adieu to the old Continental GT with the last pure V-8 version, the Edition 8. A week later, the British luxury brand is already previewing its new model—even though it looks like a facelifted version of the car originally launched in 2017.
General Motors is certainly no stranger to the notion of a custom-built car (the COPO Camaro started as just such a thing). While the mass-market assembly line makes it far more difficult to produce a truly bespoke modern automobile, that's a problem that can be solved by throwing resources — say, $36,000 per car or so — at the problem. That was GM's pitch for a very special series of 2024 CT5-V Blackwings, hand-assembled to spec for just 21 highly valuable customers. Whales, in other words. Big ones.
The 2017 Fiat 124 Spider held the promise of melding two automotive cultures: the romance of the Italians and the focused finesse of the Japanese.
Rumours of BMW changing its nomenclature for its petrol models have been confirmed. The senior vice president of BMW’s BMW brand and product management, Bernd Korber, has revealed this detail when asked why the “i” is being deleted. Speculation regarding the suffix being removed for BMW’s petrol models came around the time the German brand revealed the first details of its next-gen X3 (codename: G45). The SUV is going to come with a M50-badged high-performance model, which will replace the current X3 M40i in the line-up.
Whenever Maruti Suzuki does a teeny tiny change or update to Swift hatchback, it is a big deal. Now, imagine the gravity of the situation when Maruti Suzuki launched a new Swift. It is a massive deal to the company and to automotive fraternity alike. 4th Gen Swift is probably the most important in Swift’s history as it debuts company’s new Z12E 1.2L 3-cylinder NA petrol engine. At the media drive event, we got to sample this new engine mated to a crispy 5-speed manual gearbox. Here’s why we think New Swift is ‘The Hatchback King’.