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Report: BMW hooks DTM up with new M3 safety car

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Filed under: Coupe , Europe , BMW , Racing Choosing a safety car to pace a racing series is tricky business that almost invariably results in either a constant flux of vehicles called into duty or playing favorites between the manufacturers taking part in the series. NASCAR changes its pace cars about as quickly as it changes tires. Formula One sticks with Mercedes-Benz machinery, and nobody seems to complain very much. But DTM bridges the gap with a slightly different approach

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Report: SF luxury car-sharing service shuttered after falling victim to theft ring

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Filed under: Performance , Etc. , Government/Legal , Luxury HiGear was a peer-to-peer car rental service that began in San Francisco six months ago, had opened up shop in Los Angeles, and was in the process of expanding to to other West Coast cities. Specializing in luxury cars under $100,000, members offered their cars up for rental to other locals at rather excellent rates.

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Video: Autocar gets sideways in the 2012 BMW M5

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Filed under: Sedan , Performance , Videos , BMW , UK , Luxury The 2012 BMW M5 is something of an anomaly. Despite its size and weight, the big luxury sedan is actually quicker than its less corpulent sibling, the BMW M3 , around a road course. With a 552-horsepower twin-turbo V8 engine capable of sucking down small communities, there’s no arguing the M5′s power. But fast cars aren’t necessarily fun.

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Report: BMW M5 quicker than 1 M Coupe quicker than M3

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Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Sedan , Performance , Europe , BMW , Luxury Autobild recently set out to settle the question of which M vehicle is the fastest in the BMW stable at the moment. Not surprisingly, the German enthusiast publication found the BMW M3 CRT to be the quickest around the Sachsenring, setting the magazine’s fastest time around the track with a 1:38.37 minute lap time. That’s impressive, but not nearly as astounding as the time drummed up by the new BMW M5 . The portly sedan did the same deed in 1:38.90, or just three hundredths of a second slower than the special-edition M3

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Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Sedan , Performance , Europe , BMW , Luxury Autobild recently set out to settle the question of which M vehicle is the fastest in the BMW stable at the moment. Not surprisingly, the German enthusiast publication found the BMW M3 CRT to be the quickest around the Sachsenring, setting the magazine’s fastest time around the track with a 1:38.37 minute lap time. That’s impressive, but not nearly as astounding as the time drummed up by the new BMW M5 . The portly sedan did the same deed in 1:38.90, or just three hundredths of a second slower than the special-edition M3

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BMW 5-Series F10 body styling by Prior Design

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First previewed back in April, the final version looks quite different than the initial design renderings which took an obvious influence for the BMW M3 and subsequently the BMW M5 which was revealed in July.

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BMW 5-Series F10 body styling by Prior Design