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G82 M4 Tested, Outperforms Expectations
BMW’s latest and most important set of M models have been making the rounds in the automotive press, and Car and Driver has published the results of its instrumented test of the 2021 M4. Although we’re still waiting to see just how fast and capable the Competition variants of the new...
BMW Classic Seeking Pre-2000 High-Mileage Bimmers
Do you have a unique, long-running BMW built in 1999 or earlier with more than 300,000 miles that’s still roadworthy? If so, BMW Classic wants to hear from you! This is your chance to have your Bimmer featured at the BMW Museum! They are currently preparing a new exhibition...
BMW CCA Foundation Announces GENESIS Gala Celebration And Closing Ceremony
The BMW CCA Foundation invites you to join in our Gala Celebration on Friday, May 21! For those who are disappointed with the postponement of the Vintage, we are hosting a handful of BMW events on that day. Please help us celebrate the closing of the GENESIS exhibit the...
BMW Unveils The Ultimate AI Masterpiece
This week, BMW debuted The Ultimate AI Masterpiece, which is described as a melding of art and technology which uses artificial intelligence to generate new works. The art exhibit is a virtual one, and debuts with Frieze New York 2021 in addition to the 50th anniversary of BMW Group...
BMW Announces Ultimate Care Oil Service
BMW has announced a new maintenance plan aimed specifically at oil services. It’s called BMW Ultimate Care Oil Service, and it includes three years of unlimited, prepaid oil services for a one-time charge of $199. BMW Ultimate Care Oil Service is available for all BMW vehicles that have reached...
Team BMW/West Surrey Racing Scores Points In BTCC Season Opener
Team BMW/West Surrey Racing scored points in all three races in the first event of the British Touring Car Championship season, run at at Thruxton, finishing the weekend second in manufacturers’ points and fifth in team points. WSR has won the manufacturers’ championship in the series for the last...
Günther Finishes Fifth As Formula E Runs At Monaco
Maximilian Günther in the #28 BMW i Andretti Motorsport iFE.21 started and finished fifth as the ABB Formula E series ran on the Monaco street circuit on May 8. His teammate Jake Dennis, coming off a win in Valencia, finished sixteenth after he was caught in a collision early...
Rowe M6 GT3 Finishes Eighth In The Nürburgring 24 Qualifying Race
Nick Catsburg, John Edwards, Philipp Eng, and Nick Yelloly in the #1 Rowe Racing M6 GT3 finished eighth in the six-hour qualifying race for the Nürburgring 24. The overall win went to Frederic Makowiecki, Patrick Pilet, Maxime Martin, and Dennis Olsen in the #31 Porsche 911 GT3 R. The...
My Dream Date With Magnus Walker
As I mentioned last week, after the surprising no-sale of Hampton, my survivor 2002, on Bring a Trailer, I had a bit of a fun surprise twist in my life. Hagerty—one of the other media outlets I write for—connected me with the video team who shoots their YouTube video...
BMW, Ford Invest In U.S.-Based Solid Power
The BMW Group, Ford, and Volta Energy Technologies are leading a $130,000,000 Series B investment round in Solid Power, a Colorado-based producer of automotive solid-state batteries. The intent of the investment is clear, with Solid Power to supply solid-state batteries for future electric vehicles, and BMW and Ford have...
BMW CCA Welcomes New National Board Members
New BMW CCA National Board members were recently welcomed and installed as official members of the board during the recent annual meeting held on April 9. The Club welcomed back past North Atlantic Regional Vice President, Lou Ann Shirk, to the board as she was appointed Executive Vice-President. The...
BMW Classic Explains The 3.0CSL
The legendary BMW 3.0CSL Batmobile is responsible for stoking our obsession with the brand. Whether you were lucky enough to witness one in the flesh when they were contesting races in Group 5, or simply learned about the iconic model that first bore BMW Motorsport’s famous tricolor livery, the...
Video: Doug DeMuro Reviews Alpina XB7
It took a while for BMW to get into the three-row SUV segment. Mercedes-Benz and Audi were first to market with their GL-Class and Q7 in 2006, both of which have since evolved into second-generation (and third in the case of the GLS) forms. It doesn’t seem to matter...
BMW Celebrates Twenty Years Of Mini Production
It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since BMW shook up the automotive scene with the Mini brand and the Cooper. Production began in 2001, with body parts being manufactured in Mini Plant Swindon, and the first Mini rolling off the line in Oxford on April 26, 2001....
BMW Compares, Contrasts New M4 And GT3 Race Car
A direct link between motorsport in a production car has long served to entice prospective buyers whether in the form of a legitimate homologation special or something more along the lines of the age-old saying, “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.” BMW has created some of the greatest vehicular...
BMW Makes Three Of Top Ten Most Expensive Cars To Insure In 2021
According to a recent report by Motortrend using data from Insurance.com, BMW currently makes three of the top ten most expensive cars to insure in the U.S. There are some important caveats, of course, the first being that Insurance.com only covers conventional insurance coverage, and doesn’t examine the type of...
BMW Most Popular Automotive Brand On TikTok
TikTok is the latest way to spend hours scrolling on your phone, consuming bite-size video content until you’ve had enough, and switch to another app to do more of the same thing. BMW seems to understand this fairly well, and is the most popular automaker on the social media...
BMW Adds xDrive To M3 And M4 Competition Lineup
The first M3 to come with all-wheel-drive will soon be here, and it will be accompanied by the M4 Competition, both of which can be ordered with M xDrive at a cost of $4,100 above the MSRP of a competition model. Scheduled to launch in August, we’ve long known...
BMW CCA 2020 Membership Drive Winners Announced
This week, we drew the winners of the 2020 BMW CCA Membership Drive Contest, sponsored by the BMW Performance Driving School. The 2020 contest was composed of two different drawings. The first, the referring member drawing, included everyone who made a successful referral in 2020. Members received one entry...
BMW Classic Showcases One-Off V12 X5 LM
Almost a full decade before the first X5 M hit the market, BMW stuffed an evolution of the S70 V12 of McLaren F1 and BMW V12 LMR fame called the P75 into an E53 X5. It was called the X5 LM, with the LM standing for Le Mans, and...
Desert Jet Announces Exclusive Partnership With BMW Performance Center West
If you’ve ever been to BMW Performance Center West, located in Thermal, California you’ve likely noticed the airport situated directly to the north an adjacent plot of land. While the sound of burning rubber and BMW M engines is typically enthralling at BMW PCW, it is often punctuated by...
Ladies’ Program Committee Update: Zoom Call Announcement
The BMW CCA Ladies’ Program Committee is excited to share our mission to encourage more active participation in the club by its women members. The driving force behind our success is inclusion and open conversation. Our team has great plans, but we are open to suggestions and want to...
Johnny Cecotto Drives His M3 For BMW Classic
BMW produced 480 “Johnny Cecotto Edition” E30 M3 coupes from April through July of 1989. The special edition M3 was conceived to commemorate the Venezuelan racing driver and his numerous touring car victories in the model. Later the same year, production of the first of two batches of 40...
BMW Announces 8 Series Gran Coupé Collector’s Edition
BMW is launching yet another special version of the 8 Series, and it’s called the Collector’s Edition. This marks the fourth special edition of the 8 Series after the most recent Golden Thunder, and while anything branded as a collector’s item is perhaps best taken with a grain of...
M4 Gran Coupé Unlikely
Holding out for an M4 Gran Coupé? The addition of a four-door M4 to the lineup doesn’t seem likely according to a recent interview of BMW Project Manager Robert Pilsl from German automotive news outlet BimmerToday. Even though BMW M is currently working on an M3 Touring that unfortunately won’t...
My Dream Date With Magnus Walker
As I mentioned last week, after the surprising no-sale of Hampton, my survivor 2002, on Bring a Trailer, I had a bit of a fun surprise twist in my life. Hagerty—one of the other media outlets I write for—connected me with the video team who shoots their YouTube video...
Storage Wars: Something’s Gotta Give
Last week I was shell-shocked by the fact that Hampton, the 49,000-mile ’73 2002 that I spent months helping to become the best version of its authentic survivor self, did not meet its reasonable reserve on Bring a Trailer. A lot of thought, time, and effort goes into deciding...
Hampton Stumbles Coming Down The Stretch
Two weeks ago I wrote about driving the Lotus out to Fitchburg to swap it for Louie (my ’72 2002tii) and going on a Nor’East 02ers spring drive. I flirted with taking Hampton instead—that’s the 49,000-mile ’73 2002 that was about to go up on Bring a Trailer—thinking that...
Hampton Finally Goes On Bring A Trailer
Okaaaay, folks: After planning on putting Hampton, my 48,000-mile survivor ’73 2002, on the block last fall, pulling back, doing more work on it over the winter and spring that resulted in three BimmerLife piece about freaking hose clamps, the car is now—finally—on Bring a Trailer (BaT). The auction...
The Vintage Postponed Again, The Fitchburg Swap, And Impossible Inspection
It was just two weeks ago that I wrote a positively giddy piece explaining how getting my first COVID-19 vaccine and seeing how the date for the second shot enabled travel to the Vintage—the big vintage-BMW soiree in Asheville, North Carolina—in late May made me almost feel the light...
More Than You Wanted To Know About Air Conditioning In BMW 2002s
As it’s now officially spring, when a young (or old) man’s fancy turns to thoughts of road trips with working air conditioning, I thought I’d post a quick primer to commonly-asked BMW 2002 air conditioning questions. (Actually, the real reason is that I just did a quick rundown of...
