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At the Canadian Grand Prix, BMW Sauber posted their best finish this season with a second place finish for German Formula One driver Nick Heidfeld. This feat strengthened their hold on the third spot in the constructor’s championship. They also increased their lead over fourth place team Renault.

During the race though, one of the team’s drivers, Robert Kubica, met an accident which is dubbed the most horrific high speed crash in recent memory. Fortunately, the Polish driver only suffered minor concussions and a sprained ankle. Less than 24 hours after the crash, Kubica was released from the hospital and even drove by himself on his BMW X5.

BMW X5 SUV enthusiast carries only the highest quality brand names and products, and in HID lighting. Xenon Conversion kits are the top tier product. These kit’s bulbs and ballasts start as bulbs and ballasts which are then rebased with custom molded bases and then optically aligned using lasers for quality fitment and performance in vehicles originally unable to utilize HID technology. The bulbs life expectancy is between 2,500 to 3,000 hours which is equivalent to 5+ years of actual driving time. In addition, these kits come with a 1-year warranty on ALL components.

Only BMW was able to produce a vehicle that carries a concoction of various car features since its first invention. It is very popular for its excellent handling and protection while traveling which makes it one of the safest manufacturers on the road. It has been heralded as having the best maintenance service in the industry. There is no other car company that offers the luxury of designing your own BMW features at a reasonable cost.

With all the security on modern vehicles, it’s quite amazing that it still seems so easy to steal them. Security is getting ever more complex, particularly on luxury vehicles, and trackers, anti-theft devices and armour plating are becoming popular. BMW are leaders when it comes to vehicle security so how come so many of them still get stolen?

Maybe it’s something to do with the more high profile owners and it then becomes a challenge. There are also many gangs operating throughout the world that steal luxury cars to order and for every device that is invented, there will be another technological whizz that can overcome it.

The Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) announced last Wednesday that its pretax profit this year was set to rise above the 4.12 billion euros it posted in 2006 on the sentiment that its car sales would also rise.

Norbert Reithofer, the chief executive of BMW, said the company planned “to beat the record pretax profit achieved in 2006.” Last week, the automaker reported a 26 percent increase in 2006 pretax profit - from 3.29 billion euros ($4.35 billion) in 2005 to 4.12 billion euros ($5.45 billion) in 2006.

BMW also reported 28 percent increase in net profit to 2.87 billion euros ($3.79 billion). The profit boost was attributed to the one-time gain from the sale of a stake in Rolls-Royce PLC, the British aircraft engine maker.

The BMW M Sport trim level is known for its sport-oriented features which make it a favorite among performance enthusiasts. Recently, the said derivative was introduced to BMW’s flagship - the X5. The introduction of the said badging to the luxury SUV is expected to further increase the popularity of the vehicle among SUV faithful followers.

The said trim level gives the SUV more sports-oriented features than the top of the line SE trim level. In fact, the introduction of the BMW M Sport to the X5 also introduced the newest top of the line X5.

If you are lucky enough to own a luxury sport utility vehicle, you might have chosen the BMW X5. Families enjoy the comfort, power and safety that comes equipped in every X5. Its all-wheel drive system can take you wherever you need to go in whatever road conditions the weather dishes up. No matter where you drive, be it to school to drop the kids off, shopping, or on long road trips, one feature of your X5 that is sure to get a lot of use is your car’s outstanding audio system. An important part of that stereo system is the BMW subwoofer. An X5 subwoofer can make your digital audio files shine.

BMW, the world’s largest premium carmaker, will build the next-generation X3 mid-size sport utility vehicle in its U.S. plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the company said on Tuesday.

“We will expand the production capacity of our U.S. plant in Spartanburg in the medium term from the current 140,000 to well over 200,000 vehicles per annum,” Chief Executive Norbert Reithofer said in a drafted speech to be delivered at BMW’s annual general meeting. Reithofer confirmed the group’s vehicle sales and earnings forecast for this year, which foresees an increase in pretax profit adjusted for last year’s one-off gain on a Rolls-Royce exchangeable bond and sales of over 1.4 million units.