Both engines have ditched the Otto-cycle setup in favor of a Miller-cycle, which keeps intake valves beyond bottom dead center. This means that when the piston reaches the bottom of its stroke, the ...

As the compact/crossover SUV segment took off in the mid 2000s, BMW’s entry soon followed - the BMW X3. Serving as a smaller sibling of their widely successful BMW X5 midsize SUV, the X3 was intended ...

BMW's X3 was the company's second shot at the burgeoning crossover market, and was a pretty successful sophomore effort. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe X3 comes with a rare manual gearbox, but could ...

It's been more than 20 years since the original BMW X3 debuted, and the compact crossover is now entering its fourth generation. The 2025 BMW X3 goes even stranger with the styling, in a way that I ...

You’ve also heard horror stories about overly complex German engineering and the negative effects that this can have on BMW reliability with age, but reliable BMWs are not a myth. This article aims to ...

Manual transmission-equipped BMW can be hard to find these days if you’re restricting yourself to new car dealerships. The iconic M5 performance sedan has abandoned the stick shift, and the ...

BMW has recently launched its fourth-generation (G45) X3 range, which comprises three petrol variants including the entry-level 20 xDrive, mid-grade 30e xDrive PHEV and top-shelf M50 xDrive. The new ...