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According to Chinese media, BMW has officially released images of the iX3 Long Wheelbase ahead of its world premiere at Auto China 2026 in Beijing this April. Chinese market sales are set for the second half of the year. Locally badged as the iX3 50L and wearing “Brilliance BMW” badges, this is the first long-wheelbase all-electric Sports Activity Vehicle on BMW’s Neue Klasse platform, and probably the most China-specific product the brand has ever built. It’s developed and made by the BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture at the Shenyang plant in Liaoning province.A wheelbase that puts it in X5 territoryThe…

Barrett-Jackson will auction off a 1979 Ferrari 308 GTS next month.   It was used in the first season of Magnum, PI, the 1980s crime drama starring Tom Selleck.   It has a 2.9-liter V8 engine and a five-speed gated manual transmission.   The Ferrari 308 is already an icon, but this one here is even more special. This 1979 Ferrari 308 GTS was used in the pilot episode of Magnum, PI, the 1980s crime drama starring Tom Selleck, and you can buy it.   Barrett-Jackson is auctioning off the Ferrari at its Palm Beach event next month. The car…

In other markets, such as North America and Europe, this is the Toyota LandCruiser – but for Australia, it is the slightly smaller sibling to the flagship LandCruiser 300 Series. This is the Toyota LandCruiser Prado 250 Series, and it’s an important vehicle for the brand.Originally known as the Bundera, the Prado started off as a comfort-oriented variant of the 70 Series – a product line still in production today.But the Prado evolved into its own model, launching here in mid-1996 as a more affordable family SUV, but with the same kind of off-road capabilities that Aussies had come to…

Article SummaryAfter being on sale for a decade, the BMW M2 is finally getting xDrive.The all-paw version is coming for the 2027 model year and might bring along a fresh color: Borusan Turkish Blue.The M2 xDrive will fly under the radar as BMW is unlikely to make any design changes.BMW’s Track Package for the M2 has only whetted our appetite for what lies ahead for the G87. An xDrive version is an open secret, having been inadvertently listed on the company’s website for a few hours. While purists may scoff at the idea of an M2 sending power to all…

The Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV larger than any Skoda to date. It will also be offered with a five-seat layout. Rear- and all-wheel-drive versions planned. An electrochomic roof is one of several features debuting on a Skoda. It’s been nearly four years since Skoda signaled its intention to launch a new flagship electric model. The 2022 Vision 7S concept is about to materialize into a production model and take the title of the company’s largest vehicle ever. Peaq is the fourth EV in the lineup, slotting above the Enyaq, Elroq, and the upcoming entry-level Epiq. It will be offered…

The Australian federal government will halve the current fuel excise for at least three months as part of a national fuel security plan, following a cabinet meeting in Canberra this morning.The prime minister announced the excise, which is currently 52.6 cents per litre, will be halved to 26.3 cents per litre for three months starting on April 1, 2026, responding to previous calls to reduce or remove the charge.“We’re making fuel cheaper today because we understand that Australians are under serious pressure,” Mr Albanese said in a press conference today, with the change expected to reduce the cost of a…

The BMW X7 is, by any reasonable measure, a big car. And it’s about to get even bigger. 204 inches long, a twin-turbo V8 making 523 horsepower in M60i form, three rows, enough technology to run a small country. And yet walk into a Cadillac dealership in Houston or Scottsdale and the X7 looks almost modest by comparison. The Escalade makes it seem like BMW is still thinking about the problem. That’s not an insult to the X7. It’s a description of the market. Americans Love Big SUVs The Cadillac Escalade was the best-selling luxury vehicle in the United States…

The Bugatti W16 Mistral marks the end of an era—the legendary W16 engine—and does so with one of the most extreme and finely executed interpretations ever produced. In the “Caroline” specification, the open-top roadster becomes something beyond pure engineering: a bespoke commission where technology and craftsmanship blend to the point of approaching art. This one-off was created through the Sur Mesure program, which allows each client to turn their car into a truly unique build. In the case of “Caroline,” the starting point was deeply personal: paying tribute to the owner’s daughter, translating emotion and sensibility into shapes, colors, and…

The battery-powered Cupra Born VZ hot hatch has been an on-again, off-again project for the Spanish auto brand in Australia, but the first (and only) example has now been registered and sold in Australia.Cupra Artarmon, located just off the Pacific Highway north-west of Sydney, published a series of images and a subsequent sales listing of a pre-facelift Born VZ, claimed to be “one-of-a-kind”.Priced from $71,990 plus on-road costs, the Dark Forest green hatch is the single VZ unit to arrive in Australia, at over $15,000 more than the run-out price of the standard Born last sold in Australia.It’s believed to…

Article SummaryFounded in 1987 in Aachen and rooted in Schnitzer Motorsport’s racing lineage, AC Schnitzer built its reputation on engineering discipline rather than spectacle — refining BMWs with precision rather than altering them for attention.The 1990s golden era of German tuning depended on a rare convergence: BMW platforms transparent enough to be reshaped, regulations that still allowed independent development, and drivers who believed a car leaving the factory was only the beginning of what it could become.Modern BMWs, governed by closed software systems and increasingly served by factory performance packages, have quietly closed the space that independent tuners once occupied…