After George Lucas watched a rough cut of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the director infamously said, "I may have gone too far in a few places." This, I fear, is what BMW has done with the ...

Performance SUVs are all the rage, providing at least some of the utility and room that has made their more pedestrian variants so popular, while also cranking up levels of driving fun and excitement.

The verdict: The 2022 BMW X3 M Competition is a competent performance vehicle that has a hard time cutting loose. Versus the competition: The X3 M Competition SUV isn’t as fun as some of its ...

It's an oft-repeated observation (by me) that performance SUVs are attempts at having it all with no compromise: a sports car that's also a luxury shuttle that's also-also a daily-driven utilitarian ...

The world is changing, and with it, the automotive market. Millennials now want a car that will pick up groceries, drive to work, take the kids to school, have enough clearance to go off-roading, and ...

BMW has a variety of popular models, but even for this sports-car focused brand, SUVs are increasingly stealing the spotlight. Case in point: The BMW X3 — a compact luxury SUV offering — is now the ...

BMW has been expanding its SUV stable of late, thanks to the addition of cars like the iX. However, there's still a place in the hearts of many drivers for the X3, long hailed as an excellent SUV ...

BMW knows a little something about sporty handling and spunky performance and it shows in its X3 compact premium luxury SUV. Remember what SUV stands for? Sport-utility vehicle. Sport was originally ...

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The X3 is the small but not compact SUV in BMW's lineup, sitting above the diminutive X1 and below the more family-sized X5. Because of its size, the X3 fits in the area where most sporty, right-sized ...

Car and engineering enthusiast. I'd love to start my own energy company and design my own car someday. Just don't have the resources to do it. Complacency is not an option. When you think of BMW, you ...