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BMW M2 CS Wins 2025 BMW M Award
BMW News, Community, Motorsport
It’s a moment the entire MotoGP™ family eagerly anticipates each year: the unveiling of the winner’s car for the BMW M Award. That moment arrived at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands at Assen. Representing all MotoGP™ riders, Brad Binder and Alex Rins revealed the prize that awaits the...
Racing Lines: BMW CCA Club Racing Returns To The Brickyard
The Tire Rack BMW CCA Club Racing series returned to Indianapolis Motor Speedway in June 2025 for the second consecutive year. Club Racing came back, running an enduro and three sprint races in an event hosted by BMW CCA Club Racing, once again the guest of the Sportscar Vintage...
Preparing the Bavaria For Its New Home (part III)
Community, Lifestyle, Resto & Mod
Last week, I wrote about replacing the Bavaria’s hood brackets to get the hood to stay up without a broomstick, and increasing the main jet size from 135 to 145 to lessen the buffetting at low to mid RPMs. This week I thought I’d pull the belts off so...
Feast Or Famine For BMW In BTCC
It’s been an up and down year so far in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) for BMW and the West Surrey Racing team (WSR), which races a trio of 330i M Sport entries in the series. After fifteen rounds (with three races per weekend), BMW driver Jake Hill...
Racing Lines: Three Winners in Four Races as BMW CCA Club Racing Returns to Roebling Road
BMW News, Community, Motorsport
Racers converged on Roebling Road Raceway in June for a Peachtree Chapter event. The 90-degree heat and the choice of tires were major factors in driving performance on the track, where a small group of thirteen racers fought intense battles in an enduro and three sprint races. Mike Akard...
Three BMWs In Top Ten In Spa 24 Hour
BMW M Motorsport competed in their third 24-hour race in three weeks this past weekend of June 28-29, 2025, in Belgium with the Spa 24 Hour race. In the previous two weeks, BMW teams and drivers had competed in the Nürburgring 24 Hour and the 24 Hours of Le...
BMW NA 50th Anniversary: BMW Opens a Technology Office
For more than a century, the Santa Clara Valley was known as “The Valley of Heart’s Delight” for the abundant fruit orchards that filled this alluvial plain at the southern end of San Francisco Bay. By the 1980s, nearly all of the fruit trees were gone, replaced by the...
THE CLOUD at BMW’s Welt Isn’t Digital. It’s Delicious.
BMW News, Community, Featured, Lifestyle
On June 27, 2025, visitors could finally actually visit THE CLOUD (full capitalization is apparently required). It’s not some etheric concept used to describe where your iPhone photos are uploaded or even where your computer’s library of cat videos are preserved for posterity. Instead, it’s an etheric concept that...
LAST CHANCE! Buy Dream Car Tickets Before July 3!
BMW News, Community, Events, Lifestyle
Last chance! From now until Thursday, July 3 at 11:59 PM ET, every Dream Car Raffle ticket you purchase unlocks a brand-new opportunity to win — this time in the form of a Continental Tire Certificate, generously provided by our partners at Continental Tire. The BMW CCA 2025 Dream Car Raffle is well underway! One...
BMW EV Recall Issue Fixable With Over-The-Air Update
BMW recently announced the recall of over 70,000 vehicles that may have electric drive motor software that could shut down the high-voltage system, causing a loss of drive power, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The vehicles affected include the...
Just the Flax: BMW Achieves Breakthrough With Natural Fiber Composites
Following the successful utilization of renewable raw materials in racing cars, the BMW Group will now harness natural fiber composites also for its series-production models. The BMW Group reached series maturity of natural fiber composites following several years of development and in-depth research. The composites from renewable raw materials even...
LAST CHANCE! Buy Dream Car Tickets Before July 3!
BMW News, Community, Events, Lifestyle
Last chance! From now until Thursday, July 3 at 11:59 PM ET, every Dream Car Raffle ticket you purchase unlocks a brand-new opportunity to win — this time in the form of a Continental Tire Certificate, generously provided by our partners at Continental Tire. The BMW CCA 2025 Dream Car Raffle is well underway! One...
BMW EV Recall Issue Fixable With Over-The-Air Update
BMW recently announced the recall of over 70,000 vehicles that may have electric drive motor software that could shut down the high-voltage system, causing a loss of drive power, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The vehicles affected include the...
Explaining BMW’s Heart of Joy: Well, It’s Kind Of Like an Octopus
BMW recently announced that the Neue Klasse vehicles it’s working on will have four new “superbrains,” computers responsible for all aspects of performance and comfort. Most highly touted among them is the Heart of Joy, which will serve as the central control unit. It’s designed to take BMW’s driving...
Preparing the Bavaria for its New Home (part II)
Last week, I talked about how, in preparation to tell the Bavaria to good friends who have bought two other cars from me, I replaced the clutch slave cylinder and had the New Old Stock (NOS) muffler I had kicking around the garage for five years welded on. This...
A Tale of Two Tracks
BMW News, Community, Events, Featured, Motorsport
It’s not just on the car; it’s in the cars. Turner Motorsport uses the same LIQUI MOLY motor oils in their racecars as we can in our daily drivers. Thank you to LIQUI MOLY for supporting this column. Same but different? The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach and...
Vintage Prep Bingo
BMW News, Community, Events, Lifestyle
Is there a better stress test of a vehicle’s operational condition than a long road trip? While relatively short around-town trips may not reveal issues, a vehicle will let you know what it needs after you’ve been in the driver’s seat for hundreds of continuous miles. What’s that sound?...
Exciting Upcoming BMW CCA Member Events
BMW Car Club of America, the official BMW enthusiast club, offers membership that includes access to hundreds of BMW-focused chapter, regional, and national events. Here are a few upcoming events that should interest BMW enthusiasts of all types! Find even more events on the official BMW Car Club of...
Petersen Automotive Museum Celebrates 50 Years of the BMW 3 Series in Motorsports
BMW News, Community, Events, Featured, Lifestyle, Motorsport
If you are in the Southern California area, include “visit the Petersen Automotive Museum” on your must-do list and do it soon. Earlier this year, I had the good fortune of being at The Ultimate Driving Museum’s grand opening of its current exhibit, ALPINA: 60 Years of Excellence. This...
Racing Lines: Three winners in four races as Club Racing runs at Watkins Glen
Community, Lifestyle, Motorsport
The Tire Rack BMW CCA Club Racing series returned to New York’s Watkins Glen in May where more than 40 racers contested an enduro and three sprints in a Genesee Valley Chapter event. Frank McGleneghen won the enduro in his M2 Spec F87 M2 CSR, Steve Barnett won the...
Racing Lines: Harding, Chang, and Randall win at Thunderbolt in June
Community, Lifestyle, Motorsport
Racers converged on the Thunderbolt circuit of New Jersey Motorsports Park to run four sprint races on the first Monday and Tuesday in June. The annual New Jersey Chapter event, co-hosted by the New York Chapter again this year, was run in conjunction with a high-performance driving school. It...
Preparing the Bavaria for its New Home (part I)
It was a week for dealing with car sales, both my own and others. As I wrote about two weeks ago, I’m helping Mike Miller’s fiancée and beneficiary Lisa Binder sell his 1977 BMW 320i. She detailed and photographed the car, and I submitted it to Bring a Trailer....
BMW iX3 Gets Preview Neue Klasse Coverage
BMW introduced the first of the Neue Klasse concept designs a couple of years back. In contrast to the super-exclusive Speedtop recently rolled out, the first production model for the Neue Klass line looks to be the BMW iX3, a full-redesigned and electric Sports Activity Vehicle. BMW’s popular X3...
BimmerLife Rendezvous: Bourbon Trail Photos!
BMW News, Community, Events, Lifestyle
Over the weekend of June 12-15, BMW CCA members experienced the very best of the Bourbon Trail as part of the 2025 BimmerLife Rendezvous: Bourbon Trail event. Members took the journey through Kentucky’s legendary bourbon country, enjoying a three-day experience of fine spirits, exquisite dining, and thrilling horse racing...
BMW To Offer Only One Model of XM for 2026
Available exclusively as the XM Label – the most powerful road vehicle ever produced by BMW M. New paint, interior, and wheel options. AC charge rate increased to 11kW. World Premiere at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Saturday, June 14. Woodcliff Lake, NJ – June 11, 2025… Two...
Ready For BMW CCA Festorics 2025?
Are you ready for BMW Car Club of America’s Festorics at Turn Five, presented by Continental Tire, at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca? We are working on the event for this year and want your opinion! Fill out the form below to tell us what you love about the Festorics races!...
Preparing the Bavaria For Its New Home (part III)
Community, Lifestyle, Resto & Mod
Last week, I wrote about replacing the Bavaria’s hood brackets to get the hood to stay up without a broomstick, and increasing the main jet size from 135 to 145 to lessen the buffetting at low to mid RPMs. This week I thought I’d pull the belts off so...
Preparing the Bavaria for its New Home (part II)
Last week, I talked about how, in preparation to tell the Bavaria to good friends who have bought two other cars from me, I replaced the clutch slave cylinder and had the New Old Stock (NOS) muffler I had kicking around the garage for five years welded on. This...
Preparing the Bavaria for its New Home (part I)
It was a week for dealing with car sales, both my own and others. As I wrote about two weeks ago, I’m helping Mike Miller’s fiancée and beneficiary Lisa Binder sell his 1977 BMW 320i. She detailed and photographed the car, and I submitted it to Bring a Trailer....
The Incredible True Story of Birgit the Wunder Bavaria
Selling Mike Miller’s 1977 320i (part I)
As most of you know, our friend, Roundel Technical Editor and Tech Talk writer Mike Miller, passed away in March. A few days ago, I received an email from Satch Carlson. It read: “Let me introduce you (if you don’t know her already) to Lisa Binder, Mike Miller’s perpetual...
The FrankenThirty Does The Vintage (part II)
Community, Events, Resto & Mod
Last week, I described getting the FrankenThirty down to The Vintage in Asheville (well, down to the host hotel and the Alpina exhibit at the BMW CCA Foundation in Greer SC) with the only problems being oil consumption and mouse smell that I thought I’d dealt with but was...
