I need to start this post with an apology. I'm sorry you're about to see this. You may want to send the kids into the other room; this might upset them.

This is the story of a good son who wanted to buy his mom a car for her birthday. This son won the vehicle of her dreams on eBay, but then things turned south when the dealership hemmed and hawed and sold the car to a local buyer as if the eBay auction were just another circular they could drop their ad in.

BMW showed off their four new trucker fuel M cars at Geneva, showing that if Germans are going to dilute a brand, at least they're going to do it with ridiculously advanced technology.

BMW is launching a new high-performance, 3.0-liter inline six for its M cars. No surprise yet. It also has three turbochargers, produces 381 hp and 546 lb-ft of torque, and only revs to 5,400 rpm. Ruh Roh. Yes, it's a diesel.

If you're looking for something that says, "dad likes leather," you're in the right place. Naturally, BMW's development team would have been arrested for creating such a vehicle, so this owner had to spring for his own cow-cladded exterior.

It’s been over 20 years that Eastern Europe threw off the shackles of communism. Plenty of time for a radical change in car culture. But what Budapest-based publisher and entrepreneur Erik D’Amato found out was that some things never change. –Ed.

BMW has proven that there are very few bridges to questionable design in relevance-free segments that it won't cross. Filling the void, one independent designer has put forward the BMW X9 Concept. Prepare to have nightmares.

We mean, of course, that two-time Olympic champion Katarina Witt is experiencing BMW's Environmental Test Center with an X6 ActiveHybrid. Not that she has a low libido. We don't know if she does. Although we'd be happy to find out.

Urban camouflage had a brief moment of inexplicable popularity during the early part of this century. It's now relegated to pant patterns for faux tough-guy types and now, apparently, all matter of vehicles. This is all the Germans fault.