BMW 535i xDrive Gran Turismo Review – Niche Transcendent
Headed from Vancouver to “The Private Sun Peaks Unofficial Gay Ski Week”, we’re about as niche a market as it gets. Equally niche, if you believe the reviews, is the car we’ve chosen for the drive – BMW’s 535i xDrive Gran Turismo. There are important points to that wordy name, but, right now, thundering the fastback through the wintry hills and hairpins on all-season tires, the most pertinent is the xDrive.
2010 BMW 750i – Taking BMW to the Laundry
Planning a marathon drive from Vancouver to Napa Valley for a lunch at The French Laundry, our minds were pointed in a different automotive direction. With a scant 5-days to cover approximately 3,200kms in 5 days – plus time for a near daylong dining experience – our first thought was BMW’s new Z4, but then BMW’s 2009 750i captured us with50 hours behind the wheel and we can definitively say we’ve been spoiled for any future road trips by three-star treatment.
2009 BMW M3 Coupe – Perfection Practically
Photos: Kevin Miklossy The menacingly flared and arched exterior is pure alpine white, which on this car makes it as sinful as a “little white lie” that leads to Armageddon. The interior is swept with Fox Red Novillo Leather, the colour of mad illicit flings and blackmail. The roof is composed of carbon-reinforced plastic. The [...]
2009 BMW 128i – The Object of My Compression
Consider the following; narcotics sold by the gram, LSD sitting on a small stamp of paper, and carbon masses compacted to tiny shimmering diamonds. It seems incongruous that North America has lauded massive displacements and huge footprints for so long. Clearly the good comes in small packages. That brings us to the BMW 128i, which unexpectedly (given its stature) it’s not a simpler, lighter, smaller BMW, but a grownup beemer condensed to gold-like density.
