BMW announced this week their plans to start a cloud-based data exchange platform that will not be using US or Chinese technology. The collaboration will include major industry and technology players from Germany. This was…
If you’re a fan of BMW, or really any car manufacturer today, you’ve probably heard of ZF. The German automotive parts manufacturer created an eight-speed gearbox a few years ago and it’s used in almost…
Back in March, insider sources claimed BMW was looking for local suppliers for some of its transmission needs. The looming trade war between the US and EU is forcing car makers to find other solutions…
Considering the way things are going these days, big companies simply can’t rely on the promises made by local governments. The landscape can change in literally days and companies can’t just change their business models…
Since 2009, the eight-speed automatic ZF transmission ensured that BMW customers experienced the smoothest and lowest fuel consumption transmission on the market. Now a facelift of the award winning gearbox will come to market and…
Well what’s all this brouhaha over the next M5’s transmission choices. A little logic may help in understanding what the possibilities will be. Let’s start with what we know and what we’re willing to bet the farm…
Introduction Thinking about how automatic transmissions work usually results in the same type of headache you get when eating ice cream too quickly, brain freeze. Automatic transmissions are one of the most complicated components in…
What the heck! One more speed and all of us old Schwinn riders would have felt right at home, see what Jalopnik had to say. Nine forward speeds appears, on the surface, to be overkill. ZF has…
At the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, ZF announced their latest and greatest transmission, a 9-speed automatic gearbox. The 9-speed concept was introduced for the first time at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show and it is…
