BMW Australia has issued a recall of 74 of its model-year 2012-2018 M6 Gran Coupe affected by faulty brake light fastening. Affected vehicles were sold between 9 August 2012 and 27 September 2018. Lodged with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the defect related to the third (high) brake light fitted to the roof at the rear of the vehicle may loosen or detach from its fixture...
BMW Australia has announced it will be commencing the next phase of its Takata airbag recall work this month, detailing a staggered repair schedule over the coming year. UPDATE, 6/12/18: The contents of the table originally provided were inaccurate. We have updated the initiation schedule below...
Customisation is in vogue at the moment, but choice can be seriously confusing. In our new configurator challenge, we’re going to let the CarAdvice team loose on a manufacturer’s website to create their ideal spec of a certain model. For this edition of the Configurator Challenge, we’re building BMW M cars of essentially every flavour...
Sitting in a small room of a guest house located not far from downtown Bathurst, CarAdvice is joined for a cosy round-table discussion by Australian motorsport legends Russell Ingall, Tony Longhurst, Steve Richards, Mark Skaife, and Mark Winterbottom...
Aussie racing legends will be behind the wheel of the BMW M6 GT3 at the 2017 Bathurst 12 Hour endurance race in February next year. Mark Skaife, Russell Ingall and Tony Longhurst are putting their old rivalries aside and joining forces to take on The Mountain at next year’s event with the BMW Team SRM...
BMW’s Japanese arm has revealed a new limited-edition version of the M6 coupe to celebrate the German marque’s 100th anniversary. Called the M6 Celebration Edition, the vehicle is one of six models set to be unveiled this year to commemorate the company’s centenary. Slated for a very limited run of just 13 examples, the Celebration Edition brings with it a number of enhancements over the standard M6...
German Touring Car ace and BMW Motorsport driver Bruno Spengler flies halfway around the world, lands in Melbourne at 5:30am, and is greeted by rain and less than 10 degrees Celsius...
The first 2016 BMW M6 GT3 car to land in Australia has been unveiled in Melbourne, accompanied by confirmation the factory-supported team behind it, will take part in every Australian GT and Australian Endurance Championship round in 2016...
BMW Australia has confirmed that it will enter the GT championship next year with the soon-to-arrive BMW M6 GT3. Speaking to the media at a special event in Melbourne today, BMW Australia boss, Marc Werner, said the manufacturer-backed BMW team would be a unique entry into the championship and an ideal fit for the BMW brand...
The 2015 BMW M6 range will come standard with the performance-enhancing Competition Pack when it arrives in Australia later this month. The Competition Pack boosts power and torque from the M6’s 4.4-litre twin-turbocharged V8 to 441kW and 700Nm – representing gains of 29kW and 20Nm over the pre-facelifted model...
The BMW M6 Competition Package has been updated and gives BMW's largest performance car an extra shot of power. Headlining the new Competition Package for the M6 is a 4.4-litre twin-turbocharged V8 that's been tuned to develop 441kW of power and 700Nm of torque. This is the same engine that powered last year's limited edition 30 Jahre (30th Anniversary) M6...
