Behind closed doors

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

Will this be the next Mazda 2? With ...

‘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

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

THE PLAN WAS TO TAKE EIGHT cars to 2025’s evo Car of the Year. They’d be the very best cars we’ve driven during the last 12 months; the cars that made us smile, thrilled us and engaged us. The cars th