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New BMW 4 Series Coupe Unveiled
You’ve probably already caught a glimpse of it, but the new BMW 4 Series is here. Yes, it’s got the same kidney grille design BMW first showed the world with last September in Frankfurt. For those that don’t know, BMW is one of the most prominent automaker on social...
Dream Car Raffle Ticket Sales Are Officially Underway!
BMW CCA Dream Car raffle ticket sales officially began on Monday, June 1, at 10:00 a.m. EDT at bmwcca.org/raffle. Tickets are only $25 each and give you a 1-in-5,000 chance of winning a new BMW! You could win the 1-of-1 M5 Competition Build by Turn 14, an X4 M...
O’Fest Forever Registration Opens June 15
Registration will open on Monday, June 15, at 12:00 noon EDT / 9:00 a.m. Pacific for O’Fest Forever presented by Michelin. This year’s O’Fest will be held in Palm Springs, California, September 15–19. The host driving venue is, of course, the BMW Performance Center West, and the host hotel...
BMW 5 Series Updated For 2021
Some people were a bit nervous about the impending 5 Series facelift. It may be hard to believe it, but the G30 generation of the BMW 5 Series has been in production since November of 2016, and that means we’re right on schedule for the mid-lifecycle refresh we’ve come...
BMW Adds New 5 Series M Performance Parts
Concurrent with the unveiling of the G30 5 Series LCI (lifecycle impulse, or facelift), BMW has also announced a new array of M Performance Parts for the mainstay mid-size executive sedan. Over the past few years, BMW M Performance parts have drifted away from engine software and suspension systems to...
M8 Competition and S1000 RR Performance Compared
If you’re in the market for the two most powerful production BMWs ever made, your stable needs an M8 Competition and an S1000RR. A recent video by CarExpert put BMW’s two range-topping performance machines to the test, collecting data from a drag race, quarter mile sprint, and braking exercise....
Racing Roundup: Track Racing And Virtual Racing
Pro Racing Moves Toward Resumption IMSA was able to take another major step toward resuming racing when it reached an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to allow foreign drivers, team personnel, and dependents to enter the U.S. to compete, exempting them from travel bans. SportsCar365 reports that...
BMW Introduces The Virtual M4 GT4
BMW Motorsport, working closely with iRacing, is releasing a virtual M4 GT4, The car will be available to sim racers in June. The story of the car’s development as told by BMW Motorsport appears below.—Brian Morgan After about half a year of intensive development work, the BMW M4 GT4...
Louie Gets A New Suspension
On Saturday, May 16, when the Vintage was supposed to be happening in Asheville before it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, I went to the Nor’East 02ers “Spring Drive (with Precautions)” in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Seeing my regular Vintage traveling companions Andrew Wilson, Jose Rosario, and Bob...
BMW CCA Garage Goals Winner: Matt Quirk!
Congratulations to this week’s BMW CCA Garage Goals winner, Boston Chapter member Matt Quirk! Matt has won a $25 Shop BMW CCA gift card and a $25 Griot’s Garage Gift Card thanks to this picture of his impressive collection of BMWs! “I have been spending more time in the...
James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 Stunt Car Uses BMW Straight-Six
The average value of an Aston Martin DB5 that was sold at auction over the preceding six years is approximately $1,400,000. Like James Bond’s new Omega Seamaster Professional 300M watch, it’s been hard to avoid seeing either item online, once the marketing efforts for No Time To Die kicked off in...
Hartge H28 For Sale: The Collector’s E30 That You Should Be Looking At
There are those of us that comb through the online classifieds in search of an OEM+ bimmer to scratch our purist itch, and there are those of us that seek out the unusual, aftermarket, Frankenstein-esque variants—the E30-based Hartge H28 is both, at the same time. For those that have...
Prize Lineup Unveiled For BMW CCA Dream-Car Raffle
Every year we offer an exciting lineup of cars for our annual raffle, and this year is no exception. In fact, for 2020, we have recruited our friends and sponsors at Turn 14 Distribution to build the Grand Prize—a no-expense-spared, 1-of-1 BMW CCA Edition M5 Competition. With an MSRP...
Coronavirus Update For May 18, 2020
The BMW Car Club of America and the BMW Car Club of America Foundation are committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of our members, chapter leaders, boards, staff, and guests. Throughout the country, many states have relaxed, or will at least partially relax, their stay-at-home orders. Our current...
Video: BMW CCA Foundation Releases Cinematic “Genesis” Virtual Launch
Last weekend marked a special moment for the BMW CCA Foundation, the opening of “Genesis: BMW from the Beginning,” presented by the Werk Shop. Ordinarily, the launch of a new exhibit at the Foundation’s Greer, South Carolina, museum would align with the East Coast’s famously-popular season-opener, the Vintage (which...
You Can Buy Paul Walker’s Barely-Driven 1991 E30 M3 For $149,980
The Paul Walker collection, which includes a menagerie of vehicles straight from the late Fast and Furious star’s personal garage, made its auction block debut earlier this year at the 2020 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale sale. Now, you can buy another one of Paul Walker’s BMWs—this time, a well-preserved 1991 E30 M3—for...
Sandlapper Chapter Food Drive For United Ministries
Do you miss driving your BMW? Get it out of the garage, fill the trunk with non-perishables, and drive over to the Sandlapper Chapter’s Food Drive at BMW CCA Headquarters! Our Sandlapper Chapter is holding a food drive to benefit the food pantry of United Ministries on Saturday, May...
MX1 Update: Additional $99 BMW Performance Center Session Added!
Update 5/18/20: Both $99 BMW Performance Center driving sessions are sold out now. Spots on the waitlist are available in case of cancellations or if additional capacity is added at a later date. For the Cars & Coffee event, fewer than 12 parking spaces remain available. Tickets for the...
The Hack Mechanic Gets Interviewed By Hagerty
For over three decades, Rob Siegel, The Hack Mechanic, has been writing for Roundel magazine. Long-term BMW CCA members probably needn’t be reminded, as his columns, whether about BMW 2002tii Kugelfischer fuel injection system diagnosis, Lotus resurrection, or the overarching experience surrounding car ownership, have graced the pages of our publications...
New 2020 BMW Lifestyle Collections
It’s easy for some of us to overlook BMW’s lifestyle collections and accessories. Typically not a bargain unless you wait a few years, it can be hard to justify that new t-shirt or jacket when you already have a closetful of clothes. Luggage, drink ware, tumblers, and other odds...
Chris Harris Video Compilation: BMW Reviews
Few car journalists push cars harder than Chris Harris. Whether it’s a circuit or a British B Road, Harris has decades worth of experience pushing the latest and greatest cars to their limit. Many of us have been mesmerized by him hanging the rear end of a half-million-dollar Porsche...
When BMW Dabbled In The Supercar Niche
BMW likes to be a pioneering force in the industry of automotive design, and the rather modest way in which they carry that status is one of the reasons why we now have so many beautiful concepts to appreciate, including those originating from the Mediterranean coast. While some argue...
NCC iRacing Simulation Racing Series
The National Capital Chapter has launched an iRacing series with sessions held on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. EDT. All BMW CCA members are invited to login for some friendly competition on the virtual racing circuit. The iRacing platform is, of course, the popular racing sim that many pro-level...
New Enthusiast Event Set For August 14–15 At BMW CCA Headquarters
The BMW Car Club of America is excited to announce a brand-new event—MX1 Enthusiast Weekend, presented by Michelin—which is set to take place August 14–15 at the world center of all things BMW in upstate South Carolina. An awesome lineup of fun social and driving activities are scheduled at...
Almost There! X Chapter Petition Update
The X Chapter petition has almost reached the required 250-signature mark! As we wrote last week, the BMW CCA is forming a non-geographic X Chapter and is looking for your support. 250 signatures are needed to move the petition for the charter forward to a National Board vote. To...
Louie Gets A New Suspension
On Saturday, May 16, when the Vintage was supposed to be happening in Asheville before it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, I went to the Nor’East 02ers “Spring Drive (with Precautions)” in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Seeing my regular Vintage traveling companions Andrew Wilson, Jose Rosario, and Bob...
The X5 Goes To A New Home
Last week I gave form to the thought of selling Bluto, my 2004 triple-unicorn X5. Once I began thinking of selling it, things moved surprisingly quickly. In last week’s piece on clocking through the quick repairs of replacing the rear wiper motor and the metal clip on the driver’s-side...
X5 Window Clip And Rear Wiper-Motor Replacement
At the end of last week’s piece about giving the E39 some love, I mentioned that I was leaning toward selling the X5 and putting the E39 back on the road. Sometimes there’s nothing like voicing a thought to give it reality. I immediately began mentally composing the ad...
Giving The E39 Some Love (Part III)
Back in early March, I posted the first part of this series describing how when I bought the E53 X5 last September I basically abandoned my daily-driver E39 stick-sport in my driveway. This worked well because the 190,000-mile E39 had a number of issues: front-end shimmy due to either...
The Other Mechanical Fuel Pump
Last week, I trouble-shot the problem of Hampton, my 48,000-mile ’73 2002, not wanting to prime its fuel system after sitting all winter. I determined that the mechanical fuel pump was fine, and that the problem was that a metal canister-style filter had been placed on the inlet side...
Messing With A Mysterious Mechanical Fuel Pump
The time has come to get Hampton, the 48,000-mile ’73 2002 I bought last September, out of the garage to perform a cooling-system flush, test out the water-pump replacement, and decide how much else to do to it before I sell it. However, to do so, I need to...
