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BMW Motorrad Announces Updates to 2025 Superbikes and Roadsters
BMW Motorrad USA is proud to introduce the updated 2025 BMW M 1000 RR, S 1000 RR, M 1000 R, and S 1000 R superbikes and roadsters. Updated engine internals, revised aerodynamics and new standard electronic assist systems ensure that the 2025 M 1000 RR continues to lead from...
BMW Motorrad Presents the BMW Concept F 450 GS
With the near-production-ready BMW Concept F 450 GS, BMW Motorrad is offering a glimpse of a BMW GS for the A2 license class and what a whole new model series between the BMW G 310 and F 800/900 could look like. “What was particularly important to us in the development of...
46M East. Twelve Friends + Six Years = One Hundred E46 M3s
BMW News, Community, Events, Lifestyle
Inspired by what the SIGFest has done for twenty-five years and continues to do for the E30 M3 owners’ community, a group of E46 M3 owners scattered across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York first gathered at a scenic spot along the Palisades Interstate Parkway near Alpine, New Jersey, in...
BMW Group Plant Leipzig Begins Production of New BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe
BMW Group Plant Leipzig has been undergoing comprehensive expansion since 2018 and can now manufacture up to 350,000 cars, an increase of 100,000 annually. Plant Leipzig can produce up to 500 MINI and approximately 800 BMW vehicles a day and has introduced a night shift, producing vehicles around the...
Forbes: BMW’s Cubing May Be Key to Success
Michelangelo famously said, “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already, there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” It appears that BMW took that advice seriously, but prefers to work in the medium of aluminum. BMW insures...
BMW M5 Touring Celebrates Start of Production at Plant Dingolfing
BMW Group Plant Dingolfing has been producing vehicles since 1973, amassing some impressive production statistics for the brand. Covering over 2.8 million square meters (over one square mile), a staggering team of 19,400 employees and apprentices build an average of 1500 vehicles across six model lines – daily. Four...
BMW M3 and Subaru WRX Twenty Years On
The early years of this century were a fantastic time if you were a car enthusiast. Officially, the Rad-era had ended, but what I consider the era of greatness still had a few twilight years before its sunset. Back then, if you were anxiously waiting to come of driving...
Rossi & Hesse Fast In FIA WEC Rookie Test
The FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) held their annual Rookie Test at the Bahrain circuit on the day after the 8 Hours of Bahrain finale, and BMW drivers Valentino Rossi, Dan Harper and Max Hesse (left to right in top picture) all had a chance to drive the BMW...
BMW M Team WRT Has Difficult End to Challenging FIA WEC Season
The 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship season has been a challenging one for BMW M Team WRT, in their first season of running a pair of BMW M Hybrid V8 cars in the Hypercar class, as well as a pair of M4 GT3s in the LMGT3 class. The team...
Brakes, Belts, and Power Steering Fluid
Last week, I gushed over the fall foliage, posted photos of my Signal Red E9 and my Chamonix 2002 against the on-fire trees, and promised to ditch the clickbait and get back to wrenching. I have done so. Conspicuously absent from the “Rob’s cars in the New England fall”...
The Parade of Fall
My March 2016 column for Roundel magazine was titled “Car Obsession and Imelda Marcos’ Shoes.” In it, I described how when former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife fled the palace, they left behind, according to Wikipedia, “15 mink coats, 508 gowns, 1,000 handbags, and pairs of shoes, the...
BMW CCA Virtual Garage Webinar: Tips & Ideas for Creating the Ultimate BMW Garage
Attention all CCA members!!! Do you have a cool garage you want to share with your fellow members? We are on season 4 of our annual Winter Garage Tour where we showcase garages from all across the country. While we can always just show cool cars in a garage,...
BMW Uses Rooftop Solar Panels to Generate Electricity at German Plants
If you’ve ever flown over a large manufacturing plant, it may have occurred to you that there’s a lot of just open space on top of a factory. All kinds of space that’s usually just dotted with some HVAC systems, perhaps a few skylights, etc. And, with few things...
BMW Assembles Battery Assembly Plant in Bavaria
Electric vehicles are known for their speed and quiet operation. Turn out the speed part is also true for the rate at which BMW is building it’s new high-voltage battery plant in Lower Bavaria. All 1,066 pillars for the new 150,000 square meter plant are now in place, after...
2024 BMW CCA Dream Car Raffle Winners
The 2024 BMW CCA Dream Car Raffle X-Travaganza found its winners during a drawing on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, hosted at Taylor BMW in Evans, Georgia. BMW CCA staff joined members of Sandlapper Chapter and the staff of Taylor BMW, including Luis Olmo, Taylor BMW Business Manager and BMW...
BMW Group Donates $1 Million to American Red Cross for Hurricane Relief
The BMW Group in the U.S. has pledged a donation of $1 million to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund to support in the recovery efforts after the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. Catastrophic winds and rain hit the southeast, including the Carolinas, causing widespread damage and historic...
Sharkie is Spared the Axe
As I wrote last week, Maire Anne and I had a great weekend in Vermont with Sharkie, the ’79 Euro 635CSi. We only used Sharkie for the drive because the weather forecast was too rainy to take the rust-prone E9, and because the big guy was at the house...
Shark Sighted in Vermont!
My wife Maire Anne and I have a history of going up to Vermont on Indigenous People’s Weekend and visiting our friends Jon and Eileen in Manchester. Unfortunately, this is usually the same weekend as Vintage at Saratoga. Some years I’ve done both, shooting out to Saratoga for the...
2,200 Miles in a Euro AWD E34 Long-Roof
In July, I gave the M Coupe a proper send-off with a grand Colorado road trip. This month, I’ll bid farewell to another car I’ve had in the quiver with another epic road trip. The 1992 BMW E34 525iX first showed up in the spring of 2021. A good...
Bimmer Invasion NJ – October 13, 2024
Newer to the BMW event scene, Bimmer Invasion has outgrown its Orlando, FL roots and expanded to hosting four events across the US. Bimmer INVASION presents the INVASION of New Jersey. Elite Tuner and Bimmer Invasion are collaborating to host an epic event. This event caters to ALL car...
BMW 535d Driver Smashes Solo Coast-to-Coast Cannonball Record
BMW News, Community, Lifestyle
While we do not condone speeding on public roads, we can’t help but be impressed and maybe just a little bit jealous of Chris Stowell’s recent adventure in a 2015 BMW 535d. General consensus says a fast car is a must for the Cannonball, but Stowell picked a less-than-traditional...
BMW CCA Supports Local Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts
The tragic events of the past few weeks have highlighted how quickly things can change for any of us, and how significantly weather-related events can impact large communities of people. Hurricane Helene has devastated portions of Western North Carolina and the surrounding areas, causing loss of life and property...
FrankenThirty Sunroof Repair (Part II)
Last week, I was insufferably pleased with myself when, at zero cost, I fixed the FrankenThirty’s non-sealed non-functional sunroof by epoxying the broken plastic piece of the mechanism that lifts the rear of the sunroof back into place, and using some leftover McMaster-Carr adhesive-backed foam for a seal instead...
50th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON Hosts Record Number as Milkesa Mengesha and Tigist Ketema Win
From September 17-30, 2024, the 50th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON was celebrated with an entertaining program of events, culminating in Sunday’s highlight under ideal conditions and sunshine. Around one million fans along the 42.195 km route through the German capital witnessed the largest starting field ever in the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, with...
FrankenThirty Sunroof Repair (Part I)
Last week I wrote about un-seizing the bushing in the FrankenThirty’s passenger-side window motor so I could maximize the flow of this glorious New England fall air into the car. The next task was dealing with the other air-and-rain-related thing that wouldn’t slide—the sunroof. When I bought the car,...
Brakes, Belts, and Power Steering Fluid
Last week, I gushed over the fall foliage, posted photos of my Signal Red E9 and my Chamonix 2002 against the on-fire trees, and promised to ditch the clickbait and get back to wrenching. I have done so. Conspicuously absent from the “Rob’s cars in the New England fall”...
The Parade of Fall
My March 2016 column for Roundel magazine was titled “Car Obsession and Imelda Marcos’ Shoes.” In it, I described how when former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife fled the palace, they left behind, according to Wikipedia, “15 mink coats, 508 gowns, 1,000 handbags, and pairs of shoes, the...
Sharkie is Spared the Axe
As I wrote last week, Maire Anne and I had a great weekend in Vermont with Sharkie, the ’79 Euro 635CSi. We only used Sharkie for the drive because the weather forecast was too rainy to take the rust-prone E9, and because the big guy was at the house...
Shark Sighted in Vermont!
My wife Maire Anne and I have a history of going up to Vermont on Indigenous People’s Weekend and visiting our friends Jon and Eileen in Manchester. Unfortunately, this is usually the same weekend as Vintage at Saratoga. Some years I’ve done both, shooting out to Saratoga for the...
FrankenThirty Sunroof Repair (Part II)
Last week, I was insufferably pleased with myself when, at zero cost, I fixed the FrankenThirty’s non-sealed non-functional sunroof by epoxying the broken plastic piece of the mechanism that lifts the rear of the sunroof back into place, and using some leftover McMaster-Carr adhesive-backed foam for a seal instead...
FrankenThirty Sunroof Repair (Part I)
Last week I wrote about un-seizing the bushing in the FrankenThirty’s passenger-side window motor so I could maximize the flow of this glorious New England fall air into the car. The next task was dealing with the other air-and-rain-related thing that wouldn’t slide—the sunroof. When I bought the car,...
