There’s no shortage of variety with used BMWs. But the bargains? That’s a trickier path to tread – let CAR be your guide

THE BMW Z4 has split opinion ever since it was unleashed in the summer of 2002. Back then, its underpinnings were based unashamedly on those of the E46 3 Series, and there was not a lot wrong with tha

The roll call of cars that were on the scene 50 years ago and which are still being built today is short. It gets shorter still if you stipulate a perfect, unbroken run of production. If you then dism

BMW doesn’t really make ‘all new’ cars. Top of my head, just two cropped up in recent decades: the R50 Mini, the i3. BMW had the habit of using more shared parts than you’d guess. It almost always int

OFTEN it can be tricky to choose our overall champion, and this year was no exception; the team debated the pros and cons of all the cars in the running, taking into account the things that stood out

‘BUSY’ DOESN’T BEGIN TO COVER IT. DURING ITS seven months with us it sometimes felt as if our M5 Touring’s wheels never stopped turning. It went to Spa and to the Le Mans 24 Hours, it appeared in a dr