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BMW M3 To Get Competition Pack?

Sunday, January 24, 2010

BMW has been putting an emphasis on new performance lately, in addition to efforts to expand the lineup by going down market. In the past few years, the X5 and X6 M has been added, and rumor has it that a M performance model for the 1-Series is in the works as well. BMW recently announced [...]

BMW 3-Series GT On The Way

Saturday, July 4, 2009

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Onslaught of the Gran Turismos! There doesn’t seem to be much “Gran Turismo” about the 5-Series GT, but GT it is. More are coming though! What’s next a 7-series GT? With BMW, you never know. A new 3-Series GT is coming to the United States market in 2011, around the time the X1 debuts. The 3-Series [...]

Infiniti G37 Convertible Pricing Announced

Friday, June 5, 2009

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Infiniti G37 Convertible Pricing Announced

Well that was a long wait! After being introduced at the Los Angeles Auto Show in 2008, Infiniti has finally decided to release pricing for it’s anticipated G37 Convertible. That’s 7 months later! For buyers interested though, the good news is that the G37 Convertible goes on sale June 19th. To me, the G37 Convertible is [...]

Lexus Plans to Sell 1,600 IS250C’s Per Month

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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Lexus Plans to Sell 1,600 IS250C’s Per Month

Lexus, like everyone else has been hurting with this economic downturn. They seem to be getting hurt especially hard though and some have wondered if the brand problems lie deeper then just the slowing economy. Lexus would like to turn things around with new models like the next-generation RX and by attracting younger buyers with more variants of [...]

Ad War: Audi Responds to “Checkmate”

Saturday, April 18, 2009

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Well, after asking for idea submissions on it’s Facebook page in response to BMW’s “Checkmate” response ad, Audi has gone up with it’s own response, replacing the “Your Move, BMW” A4 advertisement with the one you see above. That was fast! That is the result of Audi’s marketing team’s hard efforts to counter the BMW M3 “Checkmate” ad. Like [...]

It Continues: Audi Asks for Responses

Friday, April 17, 2009

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This is getting good! Days after the Audi vs. BMW ad war was discovered on the streets of L.A, Audi is asking users on it’s Facebook page to come up with suitable responses to the BMW “Checkmate” advertisement. The response ideas have already been pouring in, like the image above. Is Audi up to something? Got [...]

Audi, BMW Continue Advertising Duel

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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Thanks to BMWBlog (and Juggernaut Advertising) a very interesting advertising war has been captured on the billboards of Santa Monica, CA. This is actually a continuation of something that started between the two in 2006 and indeed an inherent rivalry even before then. The latest round though was started by Audi, in the ad you [...]