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“Time to raise the bar.” With this line, a dark silhouette in the fog and a clear date, BMW Motorrad is fuelling the rumour mill. The secret will be revealed on Tuesday, 3 November 2026, at 11:45 CET – right as EICMA opens in Milan. We took a close look at the teaser and gathered the facts. What the teaser shows The image is deliberately sparse: a dark motorcycle stands in a concrete hall, wrapped in fog, with only a few contours lit. Still, the silhouette gives a lot away: N

Nose down, tail up, 48 hp and genuine RR feeling: with the new F 450 RR, BMW Motorrad opens the door to the RR world for A2 licence holders for the first time. Take a second look and it quickly becomes clear that this is no stripped-down beginner's bike. The F 450 RR is a serious supersport machine in a compact format. One look says it all: this is an RR BMW makes no compromises on design. The F 450 RR adopts the styling of the current S 1000 RR almost one-to-one: the pronoun

With the Concept 7 Protection, BMW opens a new door in its special protection line-up. It is based on an M760e xDrive, it protects against handguns, and from the outside it looks like a perfectly ordinary 7 Series. That is exactly the point. Until now, special protection at BMW meant the 7 Series Protection with VR9 rating (optionally VPAM 10) or the X5 Protection VR6. These are high-security vehicles for heads of state, diplomats and people facing a concrete threat. Below th

Just two weeks after the F 450 R, BMW Motorrad is following up: a night-time teaser image shows the silhouette of a fully faired sportbike. The reveal follows on Thursday, 15 October 2026, at 5 pm CEST. Much suggests the 450 family is about to be completed. "Something's waiting in the fast lane" BMW Motorrad has published a new teaser image on Instagram. The caption hints that something is waiting in the fast lane and invites the community to guess. The presentation is schedu

BMW has unveiled the most powerful version of the iX3 yet. The new iX3 M60 xDrive is the first fully electric M Performance automobile of the Neue Klasse. It has two electric motors with 450 kW (612 hp) and 875 Nm, sprints to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds and offers a WLTP range of up to 754 kilometres. It can be ordered from the end of January 2027. Powertrain: Gen6 M eDrive with a new rear motor The iX3 M60 xDrive has one electric motor on each axle. Together they deliver 450 kW

BMW M has built its one millionth vehicle. Fittingly, it's an M3, produced at the Munich main plant. And that is exactly where the next era will begin: the first fully electric BMW M3, based on the Neue Klasse, will also roll off the line in Munich. An M3 in Fire Orange III as a Milestone What timing: 40 years after the market launch of the first BMW M3, BMW M GmbH is celebrating the production of its one millionth vehicle – and of all things, it's an M3. The anniversary car

From greenfield site to series production in two and a half years: Gen6 high-voltage batteries are now rolling off the line in Lower Bavaria. The first customer is the Munich plant, where the new BMW i3 is built. The BMW Group has officially opened its new Irlbach-Strasskirchen plant and started series production at the same time. Located in the district of Straubing-Bogen, the site is the central battery plant for BMW's German vehicle plants and a key building block in the r

If you ride a BMW GS, an R 1300 RT or an S 1000 RR, chances are you're sitting on a piece of Berlin. BMW motorcycles have been assembled in Spandau for 60 years. What began in September 1966 with a single model is today the heart of BMW's global motorcycle production. The Beginning: An R 60/2 in Spandau In September 1966, assembly of the BMW R 60/2 started at the Berlin plant, initially in parallel with motorcycle production in Munich. Over the following years, BMW moved prod

From October 2026, BMW is introducing a new version of BMW Maps that, for the first time, shows navigation, vehicle surroundings, and driving assistance in a single combined 3D view. This is made possible by the partnership with Mapbox and the new generation of assistance systems in BMW Operating System X. Anyone who has ever had to find the correct lane on a multi-lane motorway exit in heavy traffic while adaptive cruise control and lane guidance were active at the same time

The BMW Group is picking up the pace on its first series-production hydrogen model: current BMW iX5 Hydrogen prototypes are undergoing a comprehensive real-world testing programme. At the same time, the next build phase of the third-generation fuel cell system is starting at the Hydrogen Competence Centre in Munich, while preparations for future series production are already underway at the Austrian Steyr plant. Focus on System Integration and Driving Dynamics The current tes

The BMW Group is taking a further step in developing its driver assistance systems: starting mid-September 2026, the Munich-based manufacturer will collect event-based image and sensor data from customer vehicles across Europe – strictly with the explicit consent of vehicle owners and in full compliance with European data protection law. What's Behind It Simulations and test drives with BMW's own development fleet can only go so far. What they can't fully capture is the sheer