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BMW Ends Its WEC Venture At Le Mans
BMW Team MTEK’s M8 GTEs fought hard in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but they did not have the pace of the quickest cars in the GTE Pro class. The #82 BMW M8 GTE driven by Jesse Krohn, António Félix da Costa, and Augusto Farfus finished eleventh, and...
Jordan Wins Two BTCC Races At Croft
Andrew Jordan in the #77 West Surrey Racing 330i M Sport won the first two races on the British Touring Car Championship weekend at Croft, leading from flag to flag both times. His teammate Colin Turkington finished fourth in race one, second in race two, and sixth in race...
O’Fest Update: Register By June 30 And Save $10
The basic registration fee for the 50th Annual BMW CCA Oktoberfest presented by Michelin will increase from $30 to $40 on July 1. Register by Sunday, June 30, and you can save $10. This is the most anticipated event in the history of the club and will end up...
Check Out The New 3 Series Touring That You Can’t Buy
A new 3 Series is here, and with it, following the introductory model year, is the new touring version. The G21, as many expected it would be designated, is visually striking no matter what trim it’s been fitted with, and can be had in variety of different power configurations,...
Win The 1-Of-1 BMW CCA 50th Anniversary M4, Dinan M2 Comp, Or An M240i!
Car Of Your Dreams 2019 raffle ticket sales are now officially underway at bmwcca.org/raffle. This year, you could win the 1-of-1 BMW CCA 50th Anniversary M4, the 1-of-1 Dinan Club Edition M2 Competition, or an M240i! Raffle tickets are only $25 each and there is no limit to the...
BMW CCA Corral And Hospitality At PVGP, July 19-21
Once again, the Allegheny Chapter of the BMW CCA will host a trackside corral and hospitality area at Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, PA as part of the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, July 19-21. PVGP is a unique historic racing festival held on the city streets in and around Schenley...
M8 Is Fastest BMW Around The ‘Ring According To M Chief Markus Flasch
In a recent interview with an Australian automotive news media outlet, BMW M boss Markus Flasch explained that the M8 is a supercar, one that is capable of a faster Nurburgring lap time than any other BMW, ever. Flasch went on to summarize the M8 as a, “Porsche Turbo...
BMW Group Sales Grow During May
The BMW Group saw sales expand 3.2% to 210,563 units during May as we head into the summer driving season, which brings the year-to-date total to 1,012,093 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royces vehicles sold, an increase of 0.8% over the period of last year. 181,888 of the deliveries that occurred...
The 507’s Stepbrother: 1966 Glas 1700GT
With a few notable exceptions, classic BMW styling isn’t what you’d call “beautiful.” I’m not saying that it’s ugly by any measure; that would be a ridiculously indefensible position. Mind your pitchforks, please. Instead, I’m saying that the company’s designs echoed their conservative corporate culture. I’d readily call any...
The Coupe’s A/C Blows Warm (Part II)
Last week, I’d ripped apart the air conditioning in my precious ’73 3.0CSi, including removing and dismantling the evaporator assembly, an operation I relish about as much as removing my own appendix. But the action seemed necessary, as the symptoms of the non-existent cooling implied a plugged expansion valve....
BMW CCA Trackside Corral At VIR, August 23-25
Now is the time to plan your IMSA weekend at the Virginia International Raceway! The BMW CCA will have a fantastic trackside corral and hospitality area hosted by the National Capital and Tarheel Chapters on August 23-25. Make sure to sign up now to guarantee your spot! This is...
BMW Opens New Plant In Mexico
News of BMW first seriously considering the idea of a new manufacturing facility in Latin America came about in 2011. It wasn’t until 2014 that official plans were announced, with a $1,000,000,000 investment in the form of a new facility publicized as being able to take advantage of what...
M8 Gets M Performance Treatment—With Incredible Wheels
BMW’s continued offensive in the luxury performance segment is progressing unabated, and the latest effort has materialized as an array of M Performance parts for the brand new M8. Announced almost immediately after the range-topping performance grand tourer itself, just a few details have been public, with the basic...
BMW, Jaguar To Tackle Electrification In Joint Effort
In the latest move of industry consolidation, BMW and Jaguar are joining forces on the electrical front. BMW’s current generation-four eDrive technology will soon be replaced with a fifth-gen, and the technology is set to be shared with Jaguar Land Rover for use future vehicles produced by the British...
Lockton Motorsports Enters Long-Term Partnership Agreement With Track Rabbit®
Lockton Motorsports®, an insurance provider for BMW CCA HPDE events and motorsports enthusiasts across the country, signed a long-term partnership agreement with Track Rabbit®, an automotive registration, marketing, and administration platform. In its second year of operation, Track Rabbit is already working with motorsports’ largest tracks and clubs across...
M Performance Parts Line Announced for X3, X4 M
Looking to sharpen the appearance of the X3 or X4 M you’ve got your eye on? Ahead of the newest additions to the M model portfolio going on sale, BMW has revealed a full array of M Performance parts aimed at sharpening the presence of the potent SAV and...
Trillium Chapter Brings Driving Events To Canadian Enthusiasts
The driving season in Canada may be shorter, but that doesn’t mean the BMW CCA’s Trillium Chapter doesn’t have a packed schedule for the summer, starting with a corral at the Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (formerly Mosport) IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship race, and including multiple on-track driving events throughout...
In Defense Of SMG
Few things fill car enthusiasts with impotent rage quite like BMW’s sequential manual gearbox (SMG). That’s especially true when it’s bolted to the excellent, raspy-sounding S54 in the beloved E46 M3. I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m a manual elitist. Only a small percentage of the...
The BMW 2002 Turbo Is One Tough Customer
Although BMW’s entire model lineup is now dominated by turbocharged engines, the concept was rather novel in the early 1970s. That’s when BMW shocked the world by introducing the 2002 Turbo, beating Porsche’s 911 Carrera Turbo (930) to the punch by a solid two years. Due in no small...
This Is The New 1 Series Hatchback
You won’t be able to buy one in the U.S., but as we covered back in March, the third-generation 1 Series is an important model for BMW. This newest iteration may be primarily front-drive, with xDrive optionally available, and no six-cylinder engines to speak of, but performance stats and...
Video: BMW Wishes M-B’s Dieter Zetsche A Happy Retirement
After thirteen years at the helm and more than twenty on the board of parent company Daimler AG, Dieter Zetsche has stepped down from leading one of the most respected brands in the world, Mercedes-Benz. Zetsche’s retirement was first announced back in 2018, and the executive, now 66, has...
Not A Dog Person? Then Check Out “The Art Of Racing In The Rain” For The BMWs
Not all of us can tolerate sitting through two hours of film in which a dog is given a human persona and voice—even if it is Kevin Costner in the recording booth. But what if the movie centers around motorsport—specifically IMSA—and one of the main characters drives a Turner...
Why Do Golfers Love BMW?
As a child, I distinctly recall reading a short story collection by Alfred Hitchcock, and a quote from the foreword has always stuck with me. Hitchcock described the years before the age of sixteen (at which time one could acquire a driver’s license) as life’s great waiting room. As...
New, Improved Roundel Magazine App!
A new version of the Roundel viewer you use in a web browser, and the app for your tablet will be available on June 3, 2019. The two apps will now appear and function very similarly to each other. The browser app will still have an archive dating back...
BMW CCA Raffle Features An Incredible Lineup Of Prizes For Anniversary Year
This year’s BMW CCA Car Of Your Dreams Raffle will feature not one, but two special one-of-one cars to celebrate the club’s anniversary year! The Grand Prize will be a one-of-one BMW CCA 50th Anniversary M4 with Competition Package built by BMW Individual. This special-edition, San Marino Blue Metallic,...
The Coupe’s A/C Blows Warm (Part II)
Last week, I’d ripped apart the air conditioning in my precious ’73 3.0CSi, including removing and dismantling the evaporator assembly, an operation I relish about as much as removing my own appendix. But the action seemed necessary, as the symptoms of the non-existent cooling implied a plugged expansion valve....
The Coupe’s A/C Blows Warm
The piece I wrote last week in which I compared and contrasted the tii, the Bavaria, and the 3.0CSi was a natural outgrowth of circumstance; I’d just successfully returned home from 2,000-mile trip to the Vintage with Bertha, my heavily patinaed 2002, taken it to the storage space I...
The Nixon-Era Triplets
Now that I’m back from the Vintage and the 2,000-mile chapter on my hijinks with Bertha is closed, I’m trying to engage with my other cars, free them from the storage areas in which they’ve been sitting since Thanksgiving, and enjoy them. If you could call what I have a...
Resurrecting Bertha: The Vintage Goes Bananas
In last week’s piece, Bertha—my rust-blistered resurrected 2002—and I had successfully knocked off the 900 miles from Boston down to the Vintage. Since I’m writing a Roundel magazine article about the Vintage, and since David Rose just posted an excellent Vintage piece here on BimmerLife, I’ll steer clear of...
Resurrecting Bertha: Getting Her To The Vintage
I ended last weeks’ piece with the cliffhanger that everything was going swimmingly prepping Bertha for the 2000-mile round trip to the Vintage in Asheville, right up until I found the cracked front subframe—I wasn’t kidding. The front subframe on 2002s have an ear that stands vertically to support...
Resurrecting Bertha: Vintage Prep
For most of the first four months of 2019, my head was living in Lotusland as I worked like a fiend to resurrect the 40-year-dead 1974 Lotus Europa Twin-Cam Special that’s been occupying precious garage space since I bought it in a weak moment back in 2013 as a...
