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Bootiful BMW M5 arrives: Wild plug-in hybrid twin-turbo V8 BMW M5 Touring priced for Australia ahead of early 2025 debut

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The all-new 2025 BMW M5 Touring will be priced from $263,900 before on-road costs when it arrives early next year, blending huge power and plenty of space for those families who are always running late. Performance is off the scale compared to any normal family wagon, with the M5 Touring capable of both a 0-100km/h in just 3.6

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BMW, Intel, Mobileye: 40 autonomous BMWs to be on road by 2H 2017; standards-based open platform for autonomy

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BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye announced that a fleet of approximately 40 autonomous BMW vehicles will be on the roads by the second half of 2017, demonstrating the significant advancements made by the three companies towards fully autonomous driving. —Klaus Fröhlich, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG for Development.

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BMW introduces the 2 Series; power up, fuel consumption down by up to 21% over 1 Series, depending upon model

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New BMW 2 Series Coupe. BMW has introduced an entirely new model series in the form of the BMW 2 Series Coupe. One four-cylinder gasoline engine and one four-cylinder diesel unit are available from launch, putting 135 kW/184 hp at the disposal of the BMW 220i Coupe and BMW 220d Coupe. BMW 2 Series Coupe.

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Porsche Expands the Panamera Lineup With Two New Variants for 2025

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The Turbo S E-Hybrid will sport 771 horsepower and 737 pound-feet of torque, making it more powerful and faster around the Nurburgring than the new BMW M5. It improves on the standard Turbo’s top speed by seven mph, reaching 202 mph flat out, and the car sports a carbon fiber body kit that bumps downforce by 132 pounds.

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2024 Dodge Charger Daytona: the ‘Brotherhood of Muscle’ goes electric – Charged EVs

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Courtesy of increasingly, absurdly powerful V-8 engines, the old Charger oozed testosterone, and affordable testosterone at that. The 707-horsepower Hellcat launched at $62,000, lower than any other car of equivalent power. All Daytonas are powered by a 100.5-kilowatt-hour Power matters, but range? No one cares!

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Plug and play: New BMW M5 switches to wild 535kW plug-in hybrid V8 to match supercar EVs

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The seventh-generation 2025 BMW M5 super sedan has cleaned up its act following the adoption of a state-of-the-art plug-in V8 powertrain that can average just 2L/100km while emitting just 39g/km of CO2. This assumes, of course, that someone, or anyone, will drive a BMW M5 in a gentle and fuel-efficient manner. Combining a twin-turbo 4.4-litre

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2024 BMW iX1 eDrive20 review: We understand why BMW’s cheapest EV exists, but should it?

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The strategy has been a spectacular success and helped propel BMW back to the top of the luxury segment sales charts over arch-rival BMW for the first time since 2012. 2024 BMW iX1 eDrive20. To the end of July sub-LCT BMW EVs accounted for 23 per cent of all sales for the brand in Australia in 2024. 2024 BMW iX1 eDrive20.

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