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One Day Only: BMW CCA Members Can Save 25% During Brooks Brothers Shopping Event!
Brooks Brothers is excited to announce their upcoming Corporate Shopping Event on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. BMW CCA members are eligible to receive a 25% savings on full-price purchases online, by phone, and in retail stores (not valid in factory stores). You must sign up for a free Corporate...
XPEL Extends Partnership With BMW CCA
February 25: The BMW Car Club of America today announced that XPEL—the Official Window Tint and Paint Protection Films of the BMW Car Club of America (BMW CCA)—has extended their official partnership through 2020. The agreement provides XPEL exclusive status, a large presence at national club events, and significant...
M2 By Futura Art Car Revealed
BMW announced two weeks ago that graffiti artist Futura would be designing and hand-painting a special, limited-edition M2 Competition. If you recall, the brass from Munich stated that we would see a release of three original, hand-painted models by Futura, along with a very limited production run. Just days...
How Fast Is The BMW M8?
Official instrumented test results for the BMW M8 and M8 Competition have yet to be published, but the automotive world is still quite curious to know just how capable BMW’s latest range-topping model is. When it was announced last year, we speculated that the M8 Gran Coupé would be...
BMW’s CRE8 Program Saves Company $67,000,000
We don’t have to tell you that BMW is among the most powerful forces for innovation in the automotive industry. From the implementation of cutting-edge technology in production vehicles and manufacturing facilities, to investing in future-oriented ventures that could prove to change the world as we know it, it...
Next-Gen Range Rover May Use BMW V8
According to recent reports, the next-generation Range Rover Sport, which is currently in development and engaged in winter testing, has been spied with what appears to be a quad exhaust. While the sighting alone typically wouldn’t be enough to drive speculation, the sound of the new engine is stoking...
BMW Motorsport Confirms DTM Driver Assignments
BMW Motorsport has assigned its six DTM drivers to its two DTM teams for the 2020 season. Returning drivers will run for the same teams that they ran with in 2019, and each team will get one of the two new drivers. Marco Wittmann and Timo Glock will return...
Auer, Kirkwood To Test BMW iFE.20
BMW DTM racer Lucas Auer and Andretti Autosport Indy Lights racer Kyle Kirkwood will test the BMW iFE.20, BMW i Andretti Motorsport’s current Formula E car, in Marrakesh, Morocco, on March 1. All twelve Formula E teams are participating in the test, each with two drivers. As noted by...
The 320i-Powered Locost
First, let’s get the context of this straight: I’ve had “flu lite” (body aches, chills, but no fever) for a week. It’s drained me of all energy. I went out to the garage just once during the past week, did fifteen minutes of work, and then collapsed on the...
Earn BMW CCA Bucks, Win An M School!
Did you know that you can earn $5 in BMW CCA bucks and be entered to win awesome prizes for every new member you refer to the club in 2020? For every successful referral you make, you’ll be rewarded with $5 in CCA bucks that can be used in...
BMW CCA Corral At The 12 Hours Of Sebring, March 18–21
We are pleased to announce that the BMW CCA Corral will return to this year’s 68th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring! Thanks to the incredible support of BMW of North America, we will offer corral parking and a trackside hospitality area. Please note: race tickets must be...
American Customers Will Miss The Diesel X5
The X5 is an influential model for BMW. As the first SUV that BMW ever released, it holds a special place in enthusiast’s hearts. Its name teleports many owners back to 1999, when X5s were rolling off the production line with both two pedals and three. The luxury SUV...
Should You Buy An M2 Or A Supra?
Put down your pitchforks—we know that the real cross-shopping comparison for a BMW enthusiast is the M2 versus the Z4 M40i. But now that the dyno tests of the Supra, which yielded some pretty astonishing power figures, have been translated to the track in Motortrend‘s Hot Lap Matchup, the...
Is The X3 M Competition Too Much, Or Just Right?
Last year, we provided commentary and context to a video review that questioned the ever-growing power and seemingly increasing harshness of modern BMW M cars. Although BMW continues to grow the M brand portfolio with model sub-variants like Competition and CS, the extra coin for some of these cars...
Graffiti Artist Futura To Collaborate With BMW M
BMW’s relationship with art has, and continues to be, transcendental—and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed admiring the assortment of one-off beautified bimmers from a plethora of creative visionaries over the decades. Back in 1975 the world bore witness to the first BMW Art Car: the physical manifestation of Alexander Calder’s artistic...
Petrolicious Highlights The 1 Series M Coupe
Although it’s been replaced in the lineup by the M2, there’s still something undeniably special about the 1 Series M Coupe. Whether it was the enticing blend of performance in a small package, or the raucous, push-me-to-the-limit attitude, the 1M got everything just right for driving enthusiasts. Today, examples...
Tiff Needell Reviews M5 Lineage
The M5 has been a paragon of practical performance from the moment the E28 generation arrived. More than 35 years of successive editions later, and the M5 continues to exert itself as a force in the automotive world, embarrassing the likes of two-door and two-seat cars that cost two...
Cars & Coffee At BMW CCA National Headquarters, April 4
During the BMW CCA annual meeting weekend, the club will host the first-ever standalone Cars & Coffee event at the new national headquarters in Greer, South Carolina—set your nav to BMW CCA national headquarters at 2350 Highway 101 S, Greer, South Carolina 29651! Located just 1.5 miles from the...
O’Fest Is Back—The Ultimate BMW Event!
We hear you—and we’re keeping the O’Fest name! Following the 50th Anniversary Oktoberfest in Greenville, we e-mailed a survey to attendees, and respondents overwhelming expressed their desire to keep the O’Fest name. So O’Fest is back—in that abbreviated form—and will henceforth be the name of our annual national event....
BMW Introduces Connected Music In-Car Streaming
It will soon be easier than ever to stream your favorite music while driving your BMW, as long as you’ve got a late model with iDrive and use one of the selected services. Rather than connecting your phone through Bluetooth, a cable, or wirelessly for Apple CarPlay or Android...
Paint Perfection: The M8 Individual Manufaktur Palette
I think that most of us have already decided that the M8 is a stunning machine, regardless of the color that adorns it. Whether in coupe, Gran Coupé, or convertible form, the M8 looks brilliant in just about any shade, and every imaginable palette just seems to work. You...
Pietro Frua’s Forgotten BMW-Glas V8 Fastback Prototype
While many view the Isetta, the M1, and some of the more recent concepts as the extent of BMW’s relations with the Italians, the history is actually more involved. The Bertone-designed 3200CS succeeded the Albrecht von Goertz-styled 503 in 1962, and the next ten years would see close collaboration...
Video: Sights And Sounds Of The Rolex 24 At Daytona
To those who attended the 2020 running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, whether as part of the BMW Car Club of America corral and tours, or simply die-hard race fans, they will know it was an interesting year. The weather, combined with the smaller field, set up conditions...
Paul Walker’s BMW Collection Realizes Over $1,700,000 At Auction
If you watched last week’s coverage of the 2020 Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, then you understand why BMW enthusiasts were so fixated on the block. In early October, Barrett-Jackson reeled us in with the announcement that 21 vehicles from late Fast and Furious star Paul Walker’s collection were to...
General Giller’s Former 328 Sells For $830,000
At the beginning of this month, we wrote about a BMW 328 that was scheduled to cross the Gooding & Company auction block as part of the annual Scottsdale sale. While the BMW 328 is interesting in general, with a compelling prewar racing record that came courtesy of an...
The 320i-Powered Locost
First, let’s get the context of this straight: I’ve had “flu lite” (body aches, chills, but no fever) for a week. It’s drained me of all energy. I went out to the garage just once during the past week, did fifteen minutes of work, and then collapsed on the...
A Life Viewed Through Car Audio
Things are on hold with Hampton, the 48,ooo-mile ’73 2002, while I wait for the original water pump to be rebuilt and shipped back, so I thought I’d turn my gaze rearward for a bit. We baby boomers came of age when car audio was rapidly improving. First there was...
Scrubbing Hampton, Part III: The Battery Tray
A few weeks ago, I described my efforts to remove the old Ziebart rustproofing that looked like it was sprayed with a firehose in the engine compartment of Hampton, the 48,000-mile ’72 2002 I bought from its original owner last fall. A product called Klean-Strip Prep-All Wax & Grease...
The Water Pump Follies
When I first inspected Hampton, the 48,000-mile ’73 2002 I bought last September, it was in the barn in Bridgehampton, where it had been sitting for a decade. I checked that the engine wasn’t seized by putting the car in neutral, grabbing the fan blades, putting the heel of...
A Winter Drive In A Summer Car
It’s been a strange winter up here in Boston. We had a blast of snow in early December that was heavy and wet enough that it caused me to sell my aging little Honda single-stage snow-thrower and buy something bigger and beefier, but then that was it for nearly...
The Tool Shuffle
As I’ve written, although I’m blessed to have an attached garage into which I can easily fit three cars, it is a cramped space. It’s even worse when I use wheel dollies, a winch, a shoehorn, and lube to squeeze in a fourth car over the winter. But the...
