Woodcliff Lake, NJ – November 17, 2010, 12:00am EDT… The BMW brand has won Best Resale Value Luxury Brand for the 2011 model year by Kelley Blue Book’s KBB.com. In addition, the BMW X5 and BMW X6 Sports Activity Vehicles each won places on the KBB.com 2011 model year list of Top 10 Models for Best Resale Value, and the X5 xDrive35d Advanced Diesel was chosen as Best Resale Value for Hybrid / Alternative Energy Utility Vehicle. Not stopping there, the BMW X5 also won the 2011 Best Resale Value award in the Luxury Utility Vehicle category.
“At BMW, we believe our vehicles’ strong resale value is a result not only of the innovation, engineering and design aesthetics built into each one of our cars, but also the quality of the BMW ownership experience in total,” said Peter Miles, BMW of North America’s Executive Vice President of Operations. Miles accepted the awards for BMW on the eve of the 2010 Los Angeles International Auto Show, saying, “BMW vehicles serve as industry benchmarks when new then strongly influence the used-car market as they go on to satisfy additional owners. BMW resale value proves that.”
“Consumers should take a good look at the projected resale value of a car when choosing their next new-vehicle purchase, and they would be wise to carefully consider the 2011 Best Resale Value Award winning vehicles and brands on this year’s list,” said James Bell, executive market analyst for Kelley Blue Book’s kbb.com “Taking the time to research and choose vehicle makes, models and options wisely now can help new-car shoppers hold value down the road when they go to sell or trade-in the vehicle.”
Kelley Blue Book’s Best Resale Value Awards are based on projections from the Kelley Blue Book® Official Residual Value Guide, determined by an expert staff of automotive analysts. These prestigious awards honor vehicles expected to maintain the greatest proportion of their original list price after five years of ownership. Low-volume vehicles and vehicles with a Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price of more than $60,000 are excluded from award consideration, except in the luxury and high-performance categories.
Share on FacebookThe door softly closes you in to an interior that is the cockpit for performance. It showcases a unique Dark Glacier Aluminum Trim and an M-Sport steering wheel. A gentle press of the Start button and the engine burbles to life. Driving it is almost magical. There is no strain or hesitation, just immediate thrilling response. If you aren’t comfortable feeling a few g’s in your stomach, don’t test drive this. This car deserves to be tested to its limits. The question is…does it have limits?
It hugs corners like a python. Braking requires a light touch, and is smooth even with a sudden stop. With 320 horsepower, the zero to sixty is achieved in a breathtaking 5 seconds flat. Plus there is an extra seven second overboost function of 370 lb-ft of torque. Car and Driver Magazine comments that the 335is “rockets into triple-digit speeds as if towed by a Boeing 747.”
The 335is is the perfect in-between of the 335i and the M3. The “s” in 335is stands for sport, by the way. Car and Driver Magazine describes it as being “more exotic than a 335i but not as outlandish as an M3″ concluding that the 335is is ”a powerful 3-Series with a fantastic soundtrack.”
Made exclusively in coupe and convertible body styles, the 335is sports an M sport body kit with a more aggressive front fascia than the 335i.
Kuni BMW shot their own in-house film to celebrate the 335is. Enjoy watching here on youtube.
To view Kuni BMW’s 335is coupe and convertible inventory, click here.
The first thing you’ll notice about the 335is is the sporty exhaust note that burbles alive – Kuni BMW
Rumors have it that the next Mission Impossible 4 movie starring Tom Cruise will feature the all-new 2012 6 Series. We are promised some chase scenes with the 6 Series and other BMWs. Tom Cruise recently visited the BMW Munich site to preview the 6 Series.
Both the movie and the 650i and 640i Convertible will be available sometime in 2011.
Share on FacebookThe 2011 BMW 5 Series “the perfect symbiosis of aesthetic design and performance” stated by BMW Group, has been awarded yet again. The new interpretation of the 5 Series has been out for nearly a year and is still turning heads like crazy. With a 5 Star crash rating literally under its buckle, it has now been awarded Germany’s highest honor for Design – the 2011 Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany.
This award is no simple feat. To even qualify the entry must pass rigorous requirements. The entry must have received a national or international award previously and must exhibit elements that express the nature of future design. The panel of judges are from different fields of industry, academia, design and the media. The award will be presented at Ambiente, the world’s biggest trade fair for consumer goods, in February 2011.
“Sheer presence and stylish elegance lend expression to the Sedan’s premium quality and outstanding ride comfort,” BMW said in a statement.
“The performance of the new 5 Series in these tough tests reflects BMW’s long held belief in a holistic approach to vehicle safety ” – Jim O’Donnell, President of BMW of North America. |
The all-new BMW 5 Series was one of only two vehicles to receive an overall five-star rating in the first crash tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under the new, more stringent New Car Assessment Program (NCAP).
New criteria for the NCAP rating system include: more stringent side-impact tests, use of crash-test dummies of varying size (now also simulating a small adult female as well as a medium-size adult male), collection of more data, introduction of a single overall rating score and the highlighting of high-tech crash avoidance systems like electronic stability control, lane departure warning and forward collision warning.
“The performance of the new 5 Series in these tough new tests reflects BMW’s long-held belief in a holistic approach to vehicle safety that places equal emphasis on active and passive safety,” said Jim O’Donnell, President of BMW of North America. “That’s why we were the first to introduce the Head Protection System in 1997 and why we made Dynamic Stability Control, our electronic stability control system, standard on every BMW sold in the US beginning with the 2000 model year.”
The all-new 2011 BMW 5 Series is available with Lane Departure Warning, Blind Spot Detection, and Active Cruise Control with a Stop & Go feature. It is also available with Night Vision with Pedestrian Detection, a BMW first.
Every 2011 BMW 5 Series is equipped with BMW Assist which includes an enhanced Automatic Collision Notification system. This system, developed jointly with the William Lehman Trauma Center, not only contacts the emergency call center automatically in the event of a collision, but will also transmit data that will alert emergency responders to the probability of severe injury in order to help them better prepare.
Another important safety feature for drivers in colder climates is the availability of BMW’s xDrive all-wheel drive, which is now available for the 535i and 550i Sedans as well as the 535i and 550i Gran Turismo.
Interested in the new 5 Series? Check out Kuni BMW’s current inventory
The BMW Group has been named as the automotive industry’s Supersector leader for the sixth consecutive year, and is therefore the world’s most sustainable automobile manufacturer. This was the conclusion of the SAM Group, published in its latest evaluation for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). The BMW Group is the only company in the automotive industry to have been listed in this important group of sustainability indexes every year since it was established in 1999 and named Supersector leader for each of the past six years. This year, the BMW Group is also the only German company to be ranked among the 19 Supersector leaders worldwide.
“We are delighted to be recognised by the renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. This independent ranking confirms once again that the BMW Group plays a leading role in the automotive industry of the future,” said Dr. Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG. “For us, being the world’s most sustainable automobile company means accepting responsibility as a good corporate citizen. It motivates us to continue along this path towards our vision of sustainable individual mobility.”
The fact that sustainability is an integral part of the BMW Group’s corporate strategy was rated particularly highly by SAM Group analysts. The Board of Management of the BMW Group declared sustainability one of the company’s core strategic principles back in 2000. At the BMW Group, corporate sustainability is firmly entrenched throughout the entire value chain: from the development of fuel-saving and alternative vehicle concepts through clean production processes to green recycling practices. The BMW Group also accepts responsibility for its roughly 96,000 employees and is involved in social projects outside of its plants.
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