BMW has opened the world’s largest vertical wind tunnel at its Analysis and Innovation Middle (FIZ) in Munich, Germany. The large facility is nearly 100 meters lengthy, 45 meters excessive, and 25 meters extensive and replaces BMW’s earlier aero-acoustic tunnel after a long time.  Outfitted with 216 microphones and superior laser vibrometry, the tunnel …
BMW Group’s Plant Regensburg has reached a significant manufacturing milestone by launching its 100,000th totally electrical automobile of the year. The landmark automobile, a BMW iX1 in Blue Bay Lagoon metallic, is on its approach to La Réunion. Since November 2022, the plant has been producing the BMW iX1, a premium compact electrical SUV, for …
Skoda Auto has formally begun serial manufacturing of its new Skoda Kylaq at its Pune plant. The Kylaq, which was unveiled in Mumbai earlier this month, will hit Indian roads in January 2025. Concentrating on the aggressive sub-4-meter SUV section, the Kylaq is Skoda’s third domestically developed and manufactured car in India. It includes a …
I’ll have fallen victim to my love of touring automobiles at this year’s Essen Motor Present and paid little consideration to the rest. Sorry, not sorry. Okay, that is not completely true. That is the second highlight on historic racers from the present. Nonetheless, not like the legendary machines featured in my earlier post, these …
On the peak of the bubble financial system, Japan was not like anything on the planet—its metropolis skyline sparkled with the promise of limitless prosperity, and its streets pulsed with the electrical power of a nation on the point of an unprecedented future. For a lot of, Tokyo represents that golden age—a metropolis reworked by …
Is it price it? That is the one query when a automotive prices $200,000. Nothing else might matter. That is an absurd amount of cash, a price ticket that may solely be connected to an absurd automobile. When the Mercedes-Maybach EQS 680 SUV arrived with its absurd identify, absurd $199,250 sticker worth, and absurd two-tone …
2024 IntroFor much longer than Speedhunters has existed, Gatebil occasions have been on the coronary heart of Scandinavian modified automotive tradition. Whereas loopy vehicles and equally loopy drivers had been a staple of the scene lengthy earlier than Gatebil made its mark, the impression these occasions have had in preserving and rising that wild spirit is …