I've spent a lot of time with BMW X3s. My mother has a 2014 xDrive30i. My partner's parents have a 2014 and a 2021, and her brother drives a 2020. I've also tested a 2022 X3 M Competition. I'm ...

The fight for the luxury compact SUV sales crown is a close one. Last year, the Audi Q5, Mercedes GLC, and Lexus NX all were within spitting distance of each other. Yet above them all sat the BMW X3.

The 2025 BMW X3 M50 is a sneaky hoot. Maybe it's because there won't be a full-fat X3 M in gasoline form, or maybe it's because the BMW M Performance models that sit below the pure M cars are just so ...

The 2025 BMW X3 is on sale in the United States in two models, the four-cylinder 30 xDrive and the six-cylinder M50 xDrive (pictured). Photo: Uwe Fisher. Families have long bought the US-built BMW X3 ...

More than 291,000 BMW X3 SUVs are being recalled due to a potential safety issue with their interior rear cargo rails. The automaker said in a recall report filed with the National Highway Traffic ...

The BMW X3 M first came on the scene in 2019 as a high-performance version of the third-gen X3. If a new report is to be believed, the model will be a one-and-done affair because the company ...

The problem has to do with aluminum bolts in the variable camshaft timing adjustment unit, a setup that BMW calls VANOS. This part helps determine when the engine’s valves open and close. If the bolts ...

Performance SUVs are all the rage, providing at least some of the utility and room that has made their more pedestrian variants so popular, while also cranking up levels of driving fun and excitement.

The verdict: The 2022 BMW X3 M Competition is a competent performance vehicle that has a hard time cutting loose. Versus the competition: The X3 M Competition SUV isn’t as fun as some of its ...

This was a year whose high points included an adult-feeling Whitney Biennial, a major survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art, and one of the great big-little exhibitions of all time. By Holland ...

After George Lucas watched a rough cut of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the director infamously said, "I may have gone too far in a few places." This, I fear, is what BMW has done with the ...

It's an oft-repeated observation (by me) that performance SUVs are attempts at having it all with no compromise: a sports car that's also a luxury shuttle that's also-also a daily-driven utilitarian ...