The BMW N20 engine is a different motor for different people. For some, it's an engine that represents the start of the downsizing era for BMW, and one that can have catastrophic and expensive engine ...

More power, greater torque, reduced fuel consumption, lower tailpipe emissions and less weight--but better? Before driving the BMW X1 xDrive28i, the first model to feature the German carmaker's new ...

Here we go again: a new engine in a new 3-series, and just like last time, the Internet blows up with rumors that the Bavarians have underrated the power output. As always, there's only one way to ...

Clearly Fred Su, the owner of Evolution Racewerks, knew something I didn't when he declined to ride shotgun during my test drive of his modified 328i. "Motion sickness," he claimed, but there was more ...

Somehow, BMW is managing to come up with something new and impressive just about every week now. We’ve been inundated with news of the 1-Series, 3-Series, M6, X5, X6 and 6-Series, all of which have ...

BMW of North America has issued a recall encompassing a whopping 720,796 vehicles produced for the 2012 through 2016 model years. The subject cars and sport utilities feature an improperly sealed ...

In the American lexicon of past decades, bigger means better: Wider roads, bigger cars and bigger houses. But as we went through—and are really still experiencing—an economic recession, there is now ...

The B48 is one of BMW's most well-regarded engines. It launched in 2014 as a replacement for the 241-horsepower BMW N20 and N26 engines and soon became a staple for BMW, powering cars and SUVs from ...

Michal studies Automotive Journalism at Coventry University in the UK, and has been writing for CarBuzz since March 2025. He was nominated for student culture piece of the year recently and has been ...