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BMW Manufacturing Breaks Ground On New Spartanburg Training Center
As part of a plan to invest more than $200,000,000 into BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, BMW Manufacturing is building a new training center. Scheduled to open during the summer of 2022, the 67,000 square-foot facility is forecasted to cost $20,000,000, and will replace the existing BMW...
BMW NA Announces New Baltimore Vehicle Distribution Center
BMW North America has announced plans to open a new Vehicle Distribution Center (VDC) in Baltimore, Maryland. The new facility will be located at Sparrows Point, Maryland, and will be part of the Tradepoint Atlantic Terminal, which is partially built on the site of the old Bethlehem Sparrows Point...
Video: Jason Cammisa Explains All-Wheel-Drive
The presence of all-wheel-drive systems is growing in the automotive landscape. What was once considered a specialty of select brands is now ubiquitous among a variety of different manufacturers, and these days, the BMW M5 comes standard with it. When the F90 M5 arrived with M xDrive for the...
M Chapter To Host Webinar With Enthusiast Auto Group
Please join the M Chapter for a webinar with Eric Keller, CEO & Founder of Enthusiast Auto Group (EAG). Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, EAG is a specialized BMW preservation company primarily focused on the analog era M cars. They selectively research, source, recondition and sell some of the finest BMW M...
New Referral Cards Now Available For Download!
You can use our new print-at-home referral cards to pay a fellow BMW enthusiast a compliment and refer a new member to the club! You’ll also earn $5 in BMW CCA bucks and be entered to win awesome prizes for every new member you refer to the Club as...
M Chapter Announces Club Day At BMW Performance Center West
The newly established M Chapter is headed to the BMW Performance Center in Thermal, California on December 5 for our first west-coast M Chapter Club Day event of 2021. The Performance Center provides current model M cars, instructors, gas, tires, lunch, and a first-class facility for a fun-filled day at the...
National Capital Chapter Sim Racing Season Begins March 4
The National Capital Chapter (NCC) is celebrating the first anniversary of its sim racing program and is launching yet another sim racing season! The Spring season starts on the week of March 4 and will continue on for twelve weeks. We will be driving the new M4 GT3 this...
Andretti Will Run Formula E Season 8 With BMW Power
Even though BMW will be exiting the Formula E series at the end of Season 7, the BMW drivetrain will be back in 2022 in the Andretti team’s cars. Soon after BMW announced its exit from the series there was speculation that Andretti would continue to use BMW power...
BMW i Andretti Finishes Out Of The Points In Diriyah Double-Header
Max Günther and Jake Dennis in the BMW i Andretti Motorsport iFE.21s scored no points in the ABB Formula E series Season 7 opener in Diriyah, Saud Arabia on February 26–27. Dennis, running his first race for the team, finished twelfth in the Friday night race, while Günther crashed...
The Tyranny Of The Hose-Clamp Police
Readers of this column will be relieved to learn that I’ve snapped out of my morose, self-indulgent “I’ve got no projects queued up on the three cars in the garage and the driveway is blocked with snow, so I can’t swap the cars out for other cars, so I’ve...
2021 Membership Drive: Win Prizes And Earn BMW CCA Bucks!
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? You can participate in the BMW Car Club of America 2021 Membership Drive now by referring new members. Earn Unlimited BMW...
BMW’s Designworks Collaborates With Sea Ray For New Sundancer 370 Outboard
BMW has been known to get its feet wet in the marine world for some time now. There was the BMW 507 V8-powered Abbate boat from the late 1950s, which fetched $182,085 at auction a decade ago, and the company has a history of making marinized engines dating back...
M Chapter To Host Introduction To BMW CCA Club Racing Webinar
BMW CCA Club Racing just celebrated its 25th anniversary. Join the M Chapter in a virtual event with Club Racing Chairman Scott Reiman, who will provide an overview of Club Racing. Reiman will discuss the basics of the program and how to get started. Reiman will be joined by...
2020 BMW M Track Report, Presented By Hagerty
The M Chapter of the BMW CCA invites you to our next virtual event, the 2021 BMW M Track Report, presented by Hagerty. For years, BMWs have been known as quick, beautifully built cars that handle well. With the advent of the M division roughly 40 years ago, BMW...
Join A Caravan To MX1 Enthusiast Weekend
The M Chapter is excited to announce that the X Chapter will join the official caravan to MX1! During the April inaugural event to celebrate all things BMW, this joint caravan will allow CCA members from across the country to enjoy the camaraderie of rallying to Greenville, South Carolina...
Official Announcement: BMW CCA 2021 Election Results
Voting closed on Monday, February 15, at 5 p.m. EST, and the results of the 2021 club elections are in. Simone Harrison Elected South Atlantic Regional Vice-President Peachtree Chapter member Simone Harrison has succeeded incumbent Dwayne Mosley for the position of South Atlantic Regional Vice President. David Brighton Elected...
Video: The Top Six BMWs According To Doug DeMuro
Over the years, we’ve compiled a few lists in which we ranked top BMW models from across the spectrum. Although Internet lists should always be taken with a grain of salt, as they’re ultimately subjective at best, we like to think ours cover not only the models people outside...
The Z3 M Roadster Is Not A Miata
With the E30 M3 came the birth of a whole new type of car for BMW—a car more precise, more in tune with driver and road, something for the sake of driving and nothing else. It was the true ultimate driving machine. Over the following years, the mad scientists...
Saturday Morning At MX1 Is Now An Official Griot’s Garage Caffeine & Gasoline® Event!
Anticipation is building for the first-ever MX1 Enthusiast Weekend, presented by Michelin, at the BMW CCA Headquarters in Greer, South Carolina, on April 9–11! In fact, Griot’s Garage has just announced that the Saturday morning, April 10 cars and coffee has been designated an official Caffeine & Gasoline event!...
Michelin Deal Extended: Get $70 Plus FREE 1-Year BMW CCA Membership!
This special offer from Michelin has just been extended until March 31 2021! A major supporter of the BMW CCA for over a decade, Michelin has an exclusive offer just for club members! Get a $70 Visa® Reward Card1—plus, for the first 300 eligible† requests, a one-year membership (or...
Z-Series Club Plans Guinness Record BMW Parade
The Z Series Car Club of America (ZSCCA) is organizing an attempt to break the Guinness World Records title for the largest parade of BMW cars. The attempt will take place on Saturday July 10, 2021, at the BMW Car Club of America Foundation Museum in Greer, South Carolina....
Video: Doug DeMuro Asks What’s Going On With BMW
If BMW ever had a so-called golden age, it was probably around 2001, when the company was making cars like the benchmark-setting E46 M3 and E39 M5, and other incredible stuff like the S54-powered Z3 M coupe and roadster, the Z8, first-generation X5, and the E38 7 Series. This...
Allegheny Chapter Hosts Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Fundraiser, New Prizes Added
Since its inception in the early 1980s, the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix has raised over $5,000,000 for individuals in Pittsburgh with autism and other developmental disabilities. Normally, these funds are raised through the many great PVGP car shows, dinner galas, and the famous Race Weekend in Schenley Park. Unfortunately,...
Video: Jason Cammisa Settles Score Between Z4, M2, And Supra
The current Toyota Supra, BMW Z4, and M2 have one important thing in common: they’re all BMWs under the skin, and therefore share theoretically similar underpinnings and drivetrains. Sure, some of the engines are slightly different, but they all originate from the same lineage, and are all comparably-powerful turbocharged...
The E92 328xi Might Be The Perfect First Car
You’re sixteen and have been studying tirelessly for your driving exam the following morning. To give yourself a break, you turn to Craigslist and scour forums in search for the perfect first car. This is what my best friend Jimmy McCarriston did when it came time to buy his...
The Tyranny Of The Hose-Clamp Police
Readers of this column will be relieved to learn that I’ve snapped out of my morose, self-indulgent “I’ve got no projects queued up on the three cars in the garage and the driveway is blocked with snow, so I can’t swap the cars out for other cars, so I’ve...
The Necessary Nightmare Of Facebook Marketplace
The evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote about “punctuated equilibrium,” the tendency for biological systems to stay the same for long periods of time, then to change rapidly in response to environmental stress. I’ve always felt that this model applies really well to what goes in my garage. Projects...
It’s Not Regret—It’s Enlightened Rearward-Looking Sadness
Thanks, everyone, for your concern over my recent head wound. I’m fine. The sutures were removed last Monday. The scar is no worse than the bumper scrapes on any of my cars. Last week, Facebook did its “memories” thing and reminded me that it’s been four years since I...
Oh, Sure, The Scar Will Fade… Maybe
We’ve all been there. The sudden slip of the wrench. The moving of the thing you didn’t expect to move. The nasty gash that clearly needs stitches. The knowledge that the next four hours of your life are going to suck, as you’ll be sitting in an emergency room,...
Looking For A Car-Centric Home
In those wonderful carefree pre-pandemic days, whenever Maire Anne and I would visit friends in western Massachusetts or southern Vermont, we’d breathe in the air, take in the views, and instinctively feel that we should be out in the country for the next phase of our lives. But there...
The E39 Gets A Thrust-Arm Replacement
A few years ago, I was driving my 2003 E39 530i stick sport, ostensibly my daily driver (if I drove anywhere daily) on the highway when it developed a really bad front shimmy. I reduced speed and nursed the car home, put it up on the lift, and found...
