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  In BMW Electric Car, Software 'Coding' Unlocks Hidden Features Owners Want

  And may void warranty

  ... ) regulations--or BMW North America's perception of consumer preferences. Green Car Reports had ... asked the U.S. arm of BMW why ...
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  The Future Arrives By Sedan

  The 2016 BMW 7 Series is packed with cutting-edge technology

  ... list-topper in several categories. Now BMW is pouring the i8's feature ... reinforced plastic to make the car lighter and stiffer. This improves ...

  By Eric Adams
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  The Coolest Car Tech We Saw At CES 2015

  Wearables and gesture controls are dazzling, but the most useful automotive innovations at CES are far more practical.

  ... smart TV. Browse the best car tech we saw at CES ...

  By Matthew de Paula
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  BMW's i8 Is Where Every Supercar Manufacturer Needs to Go

  Hybrid electric coupes are fashioned for efficiency—with fangs

  ... generate perfectly comfortable, docile touring cars that will nevertheless wake up ... cool.But the BMW i8 has company in this hybrid sports car turf ...

  By Eric Adams
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  BMW's First True Electric Car Is Here

  The former concept i3 has been made real, and might be the most interesting electric vehicle we've seen in years.

  ... traditional gas, diesel, or hybrid cars. The i3 is small, shaped ... reinforced plastic is, according to BMW, just as strong as steel ...

  By Dan Nosowitz
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  See The First Images Of BMW's Sleek New Concept X4

  Part SUV, part coupe

  ... here to enter the gallery BMW has just released images of ... combined with a coupe. The car will debut later this month ...

  By Rose Pastore
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  Drivers of Progress

  Five technologies that will shape the cars of the future

  ... Next year, BMW will begin selling its i3 electric city car, the ... of the car's hefty lithium-ion battery pack. In fact, BMW engineers were ...
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  Test Drive: the 2012 BMW 3 Series Sedan

  The classic German sedan gets an exciting upgrade

  ... and safer cars every few years? What's New For 2012, BMW made ... every other car manufacturer puts their premium sedan against the BMW. They ...
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  The All-Electric BMW Active E

  You'll need to rethink the way you drive, literally

  ... fully realized electric car. BMW developed everything in the car - the energy ... lithium-ion batteries are so temperature-sensitive, BMW developed a new management system ...
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  The Best of the 2012 Detroit Auto Show

  One of the most inspiring shows we've been to

  ... some with a plug), sports cars, and concepts. Here's a look ...

  By Seth Fletcher
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  BMW Enters World of Electric Cars With New Plug-In Vehicles

  ... to tell how seriously BMW takes electric cars. In 2009, BMW-owned Mini ... been selling electric cars for nearly a year now; BMW, meanwhile, is ...
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  Extremely Mobile Devices

  How Silicon Valley engineers are transforming cars into very smart, very fast and increasingly opinionated information systems

  ... series of prize-winning robot cars not unlike the BMW Track Trainer. In ... ideas at both Mercedes and BMW—that cars will one day monitor ...
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  Celebrating the Concept Car: 10 Legendary Successes and Failures

  We cover all the bases: droolworthy visions, dramatic departures, genre-defining pioneers and true forehead-slappers (a nuclear-powered Ford sedan? Why not!).

  ... at autoshows. Most importantly, concept cars represent a way for automakers ... this month's Future of the Car issue. Based on current real-world ...
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  The Price of Karma

  Greener than a Prius and hotter than a Maserati, the Fisker Karma promises to change the way the world thinks about electric cars. The only problem is that nobody outside the company has driven one yet. Will Henrik Fisker tempt buyers into the electric age, or is he already a relic of the past?

  ... does it. Fisker created the BMW Z8 roadster featured in the ... production late this year. The car represents a nearly billion-dollar bet ...
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  The Best of the 2010 Detroit Auto Show

  A smaller but surprisingly less depressing North American Auto Show features a shaken industry seeking a fresh start

  ... GM are building impressive new cars. Chrysler, which essentially had nothing ...

  By Seth Fletcher
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  Scaly BMW Concept Car Collects Solar Power, Then Raises Panels to Brake

  The BMW Lovos car has solar photovoltaic cells all over its body

  ... such concepts to extremes. The BMW Lovos has 260 exterior flaps ... the same time. The wacky car concept comes from Anne Forschner ...

  By Jeremy Hsu
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  BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept Car

  BMW's latest design and powertrain study may have a clinical-sounding name, but beneath that avant-garde skin and lab-coat-tested powertrain beats the heart of an ultimate driving machine

  ... the new concept of what BMW is calling EfficientDynamics is a ... convert heat energy from the car's exhaust into 200 watts of ...

  By Mike Spinelli
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  Hard Times at the LA Auto Show

  At the height of the automotive industry crisis, carmakers tried to smile through the pain

  ... plans to deliver mass-market electric cars within the next two or ... , sporty, fuel-efficient cars, while German brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi will ...

  By Seth Fletcher
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  Engineering a Debunking

  Car enthusiasts come together to dig up the truth behind "leaked photos" of a much-anticipated sports car

  ... It's a take on a car BMW officials have yet to announce ... return of the BMW M1, a two-seat sports car the Munich-based company ...
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  BMW Teams With Google Maps For Navigation

  The new X6 features tight integration with the big G's online mapping service

  ... Google Maps to their car. If the car's got a navigation system ... version called ConnectedDrive in 2007.But BMW isn't alone. Mercedes launched a ...
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  New Rides in New York

  Check out our photo highlights from the 2008 New York International Auto Show

  The New York International Auto Show took the time machine route this year. In both directions. Futuristic concepts ranged from ultra-clean engines to designs like the Mitsubishi Miev and Toyota's (pretty unfortunate) ...
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  Cars That Own the Night

  The latest luxury sedans use night-vision systems to let you see in the dark

  ... top-of-the-line Mercedes Benz S550 and BMW 7-Series luxury sedans. They operate ... environment with projected infrared light; BMW detects thermal energy emitted from ...
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  Fuddy-Duddy Brand Spawns Luxury Rocket

  What goes 0-to-60 in 4.7 seconds, looks like a crouching cat and may, at 150 large, be a bargain of auto technology?

  ... Phantom a huge, enormously expensive car that undeniably had ... presence. It ... which it could credibly expand. BMW can make super-luxurious Rolls-Royce sedans ...
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  The Un-Wagon Wagons

  The PopSci car test: Do performance and practicality really mix? We drive the new sport wagons.

  ... impressed our testers uniformly. The car embodies the precise handling and ... found fewer compromises in the BMW, and its lowest-price position sealed ...