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Some automakers furnish complimentary maintenance programs that last anywhere from one to five years from when the car was new, but there are limitations.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has bestowed its highest honor on three luxury SUVs, giving the 2025 BMW X5, 2024 Lexus NX and 2024 Volvo XC90 Top Safety Pick+ awards.

For 2024, Porsche takes the top spot for premium brands as well as the overall crown, with Mini taking the honors among mass-market brands.

BMW’s latest recall concerns an interior cargo rail that may detach in more than 291,000 X3 SUVs.

Here are vehicle brands offering retail buyers some level of complimentary scheduled maintenance for the 2024 model year.

BMW is recalling some 394,000 3 Series models for Takata airbags, this time examples that may not have had anything to do with the recall initially.

This year’s study is based on responses from 99,144 buyers and lessees of new model-year 2024 vehicles, and respondents were surveyed 90 days after acquiring their vehicles.

When it arrives later this year, the 2025 BMW M5 will produce an astounding 717 hp and 738 pounds-feet of torque.

The redesigned 2024 BMW X2 hasn’t yet been subject to the updated moderate overlap crash test, so it’s not yet eligible for Top Safety Pick+ status.

With its highly intoxicating twin-turbocharged V-8, the 2024 BMW X5 M60i blurs the line between simply being an X5 with an uplevel engine and a full-blown performance SUV.