For the past 13 years, BMW has provided the official safety cars for the MotoGP championship with the Bavarian firm's M brand taking over the partnership in 2006.
Following the presentation of the new generation M6 Coupe and Convertible models earlier this year, BMW has decided to replace the MotoGP 1 Series M Coupé safety car with a brand new M6 Coupé from mid-season on.
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The last time our scoop photographers nabbed the 2013 BMW M6 Gran Coupe, it was undergoing winter tests in northern Europe, with the company’s engineers having cloaked parts of the car in light camouflage.
If you need more help to visualize the new M6 Gran Coupe, photoshop artist Wildspeed and the crew over at Bimmer Post have created a series of speculative renderings to show us what the sports saloon could look like in real life.
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After the world premiere of the 2013 M6 Convertible at the New York Auto Show today, BMW announced pricing for an array of new models that will launch in the States later this year. All prices listed below include destination and handling.
First up is the facelifted 2013 X6M that arrives in U.S. dealerships in May with a starting price of $93,795. BMW's crossover model is powered by 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 that delivers 555-horses at 6,000 rpm and 680Nm (501.5 lb-ft) of peak torque.
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In this week's drag strip battle, we have a stock Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG with 571-horses competing against two tuned German sports cars, a previous generation BMW M6 Coupe with 530-ponies and an even more powerful Audi RS6 sedan with 750-horses kicking under its hood.
This time, the number of ponies played their role in the races, though if it wasn't for a bad start, the Mercedes could have won the match with the Audi as well.
You can watch the race for yourself in the video that follows below.
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The BMW X1 will launch in the United States sooner than what the Bavarian company has led us to believe the last time we reported about the matter, as the automaker today announced that the facelifted X1 would receive its world premiere at next month's 2012 New York International Auto Show and go on sale in the States this summer.
When the German automaker introduced the X3's smaller sibling back in the summer of 2009, it said that it would offer the X1 in the States in early 2011, but that never happened with BMW constantly delaying its launch.
Back to the present, BMW said that the revised X1 will be offered in America with its new 2.0-liter TwinPower Turbo 4-cylinder gasoline engine. The automaker did not release any other details nor any photos of the facelifted model.
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