BMWBLOG Podcast

BMWBLOG Podcast is built around a single badge, and it approaches BMW from several directions. The recent episodes move between first drives, workshop visits, a BMW M panel and an anniversary look back at the M3. At the center is a conversation between the host and co-host Nate. Some of their titles bundle several stories into one, as in 'BMW M2 CS Track Day in the Rain + Neue Klasse iX3 First Drive + 2025 M5 Touring'. The talk stays close to the driving. On the iX3, the verdict on wheels is plain: the biggest options add noise and harshness, and a mid-size tire is the smarter buy. Rear-seat room gets judged against the current X5, with three adults aboard. Ownership shapes the opinions, too. One of the pair describes cycling through four i3s and argues that electric and gasoline cars will share the road for a long time, which makes offering both a smart move for BMW. The guests take the show furthest from the driver's seat. A panel titled 'Born on the Racetrack, Made for the Streets' gathers voices from BMW M, Frank among them, in an episode called 'Why BMW M Won’t Build a Supercar or Join Formula 1'. The panel covers customers asking for a wagon in the US, the promise that an electric M will still feel like an M, and the view that LMDH sits closer to road cars than Formula 1. Matt Mullis, chief driving instructor for the BMW Performance School in the US, tells how an injury cost a race seat and how a call from Dan McKeever, the Performance Center's first chief instructor, opened the door at BMW. Two episodes come from Precision Sport Industries in Orlando. In one, the host's 1M, owned since 2011, gets a preventive once-over, and PSI president and CEO Sean Myers talks through modifications for manual M3s, favoring what a driver touches: Alcantara steering wheels, shift knobs and a modestly shorter shifter rather than a notchy one. In the other, Sean Myers and Tom Placinski, head of BMW Classic USA, mark 50 years of the 3 Series and 40 of the M3. That conversation traces how the race-focused E30 M3 gave way to a street-first E36, with talk of inline-six torque and double VANOS along the way. The tone is friendly and conversational, and a cat named Mary Gold even turns up on one recording. Episodes also run on YouTube, where the channel carries further reviews, Mini included. For older cars, '50 Years of BMW 3 Series and 40 Years BMW M3 - Untold Stories' is a natural first pick.