Ryan de Villiers is a budding automotive journalist based in South Africa and serving as one of the newest additions to the CarBuzz team. He immediately pursued a career in journalism after finishing ...

The BMW N55 family of engines were released for the 2009 model year, coming in to replace the ageing and troublesome N54 series. At the time, where the competition was busy chasing the highest ...

People who are more into technical details and less into design should be thrilled to know that the new BMW 5 Series GT incorporates the company's latest powerplant, known as the N55, basically an ...

BMW’s N55 engine was a remarkable achievement, even for a company as adept as building engines and cars as BMW. The first BMW engine to combine turbocharging, direct injection, Valvetronic and ...

Ralph Hanson May 26, 2009 Comment Now! BMW’s current N54 series straight-six engine is one of the most praised engines in the industry today, having taken out the coveted International Engine of the ...

The BMW N55 engine is already regarded as one of the best in the business, even though it was released just 2 years ago and replaced another legendary unit, the N54 one that powered the 1M Coupe. Even ...

Surprisingly, this 2JZ-GTE-swapped 2011 BMW 135i is not the first time car owner and builder Teigon Tegner has facilitated an unusual (unholy?) union before anyone else. Over a decade ago, the ...

Clearly Fred Su, the owner of Evolution Racewerks, knew something I didn't when he declined to ride shotgun during my test drive of his modified 328i. "Motion sickness," he claimed, but there was more ...