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BMW has revealed their first official pictures of facelifted BMW X6. There’s some changes at the front, kidney grille and addition of optional adptive LED headlamps. At the rear, there’s new horizontally mounted twin LED light banks emphasize the car’s width. It come with new paint such as Marrakech Brown metallic ( like the picture), Orion Silver metallic and Midnight Blue metallic and new bi-colour. It also come with 19-inch alloys for the BMW X6 xDrive 50i model.
The facelifted X6 come with five engine option, the range topping 555bhp X6M, V8 xDrive50i, six-pot xDrive35i and diesel-powered xDrive40d and xDrive30d, the latter of which is available with BMW’s nitrogen oxide-reducing BluePerformance Technology from spring. Inside the X6, there a standard leather interior is available in Vermillion Red and the nappa leather comes with Black or Ebony White.
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Source :- AutoCar
Toyota will make a partnership with BMW AG for environmental vehicles. The proposed agreement said that BMW will provide diesel engine with 2 liter version for midsize car for Toyota’s vehicles sold in Europe. The project still not confirm and yet to be decided.
The deal will help Toyota to reduce development expenses but it is expected to share its technology for hybrid system. The collaboration will help BMW to expand their green vehicle aftere signed a deal with PSA Peugeot Citroen Group last year.
Source :- Reuters
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BMW has built driveless car but they still not confident the car will be on market in near time. They need a decade before make it on the market. One of the car has success in the trial between the German cities of Nuremburg and Munich on a high speed without any driver input.
BMW has combined several technologies including active cruise control system that can drive the car without any driver input. The car that being developed are even capable of negotiating winding roads using detailed satelitte navigation date.
Source :- Drive SMH.com.au
Google has develop their driveless car. Another 10 years?? I don’t think so.. Maybe less than that..
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BMW absolute show their one of BMW 7 Series at Germany’s TuningWerk that will top out at 720 horsepower, 803 pound-feet and 217 miles per hour., This powerful car using eight speed transmission with either five or six speeds. It powered from 0 – 62 mph only in 3.5 seconds and top speed is 310 km/h.
The car price is €198,000 ($274,982 U.S.) .
Source :- Autoblog