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Shell Celebrating 50 Years Of The BMW CCA With Fill-Up Friday
Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline—the official fuel of the BMW CCA—is excited to help celebrate the club’s 50th anniversary this year! In fact, they are increasing the weekly Fill-Up Friday contest prize from $25 to $50 in Shell gift cards each week! Ready to win? For a chance to...
Data Shows Smart Money Buys Wagons
Auto enthusiasts still love station wagons, and it shows. There’s been something of an outcry on the internet since news of BMW deciding to skip the G21 3 Series Touring for the U.S. market broke, ending a tradition of long-roof Threes that spans two decades, with plenty of 25-year-rule...
Classifieds Challenge: E85 Z4 And Supra Edition
Welcome back to Classifieds Challenge, where we take two cars from the BMW CCA Classifieds and put them head-to-head! This week, we’re looking at two used versions of two hyped-up 2020 sports cars: the Toyota Z4 and BMW Supra—I mean, the BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra. Well, the newest...
BMW Remains World’s Top Luxury Automaker In 2018, Delivers Over 140,000 EVs
With 2018 having come to a close, the BMW Group can count an eighth consecutive year of record annual sales growth thanks to deliveries of 2,490,660 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles, an increase of 1.1% over 2017. Both BMW and Rolls-Royce recorded best-ever sales figures, while BMW Group Electrified...
BMW CCA Members: Recognize Your Favorite Repair Shops!
Do you know of a fantastic BMW Service Center or independent repair specialist? Do these businesses go above and beyond normal expectations? Do Chapter members receive special attention or added benefits? If so, shouldn’t they be recognized? Big or small, here is your chance to do just that. The...
The Tale Of The Tool Tray
A few weeks ago, a ’74 Bavaria out in Agawam, Massachusetts, showed up in a Craigslist search. The ad said that the car ran, but mentioned that it had “some rust.” The car didn’t have a lot of curb appeal in the ad: The photos showed that (a) it...
Sims Finishes Fourth After BMWs Collide In Marrakesh
Alexander Sims finished fourth in the Formula E race in Marrakesh, Morocco, on January 12, salvaging points for the BMW i Andretti team. It should have been a one-two finish for the BMW iFE.18s; António Félix da Costa, with Sims close behind him, held a commanding lead with just...
MINIs Hold Third Through Sixth Spots After Six Stages Of Dakar 2019
Stéphane Peterhansel and co-driver David Castera in an X-Raid Mini JCW team MINI John Cooper Works Buggy were third in the overall car standings in the 2019 Dakar after the sixth stage of the event was run on Sunday, January 13. They had started the stage second, but lost...
Stash Of Unused E34 5 Series Discovered In Bulgaria
The E34 5 Series is one of our favorite platforms. The third generation in a lineage that now stretches to seven when counting the current G30, the E34 took modernized styling applied to the 7 Series a few years prior and brought it to the mainstream. Introduced over thirty...
Shell Fill-Up Friday Winner: Dan Wohlfarth!
Congratulations to last week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Dan Wohlfarth, who won a $50 fuel card with this shot of his E23 filling up with Shell V-Power NiTRO+ after a refresh from 14 years in hibernation. We hope you enjoy your 62,245-mile 7 Series, Dan! Want to win a...
XPEL Named Official Window Tint And Paint-Protection Films Of The BMW Car Club Of America
GREENVILLE, S.C. (January 8, 2019): The BMW Car Club of America today announced an agreement that will make XPEL the “Official Window Tint and Paint-Protection Films of the BMW Car Club of America” (BMW CCA) for 2019. The agreement provides XPEL exclusive status, a large presence at national club...
You Can Now Buy Shares Of Rare BMWs
Have your dreams always been just a bit out of reach? Almost anyone in the U.S. with a halfway decent credit score can get into a relatively modern BMW for a payment they probably find tolerable, but what if you lust after something a bit more than the entry-level...
Fourth-Quarter Membership Drive Winners Announced
2018 has officially come to a close, so it’s time to announce the winners of our Q4 membership drive contest. In first place, with a total of twenty referrals, is Michiana Chapter member Quenton Smith. Quenton has won a half-page member profile in Roundel magazine and a $150-value Michelin...
BMW M Celebrates 20 Years Of MotoGP Safety Cars
Last month marked the end of the 2018 MotoGP season, which means BMW has been working with organizer Dorna Sports for twenty years now. Through those two decades, the partnership has yielded some incredibly cool safety cars, all of which have been specially prepared and built by BMW M,...
How Would You Order an Individual M2?
I’ll be straight with you, Yuppies: I don’t always keep 100% up-to-date on newer Bimmers. Whenever I try to browse the forums, I lose interest somewhere between the discussion of lease rates and guys bragging about how much faster their DCT is (I’m sure those tenths of a second...
BMW CCA Club Racing Announces 2018 Championship Awards
Tire Rack BMW CCA Club Racing series chairman Gary Davis has announced the winners of the series’ 2018 national class champions as well as the series’ rookie of the year and the winner of the Glenn Lucas Spirit of Club Racing award. Class champions are: • In B-Modified, Ralph...
Ride Along With Alex Zanardi In The Adapted M8 GTE (Video)
Want to see how multi-denomination racing champion Alex Zanardi pilots the BMW M8 GTE? By now, you’ve heard about Zanardi’s return to Daytona driving the #24 BMW M8 GTE, but for those curious how his hand control setup from DTM transfers to the BMW M8 GTE, check out this...
BMW South Africa To Restore Homologation Special 530 MLE
BMW’s factory in Rosslyn, South Africa is the automaker’s oldest outside of Europe, and can trace its roots back to 1968, when BMW drivetrains were mated to bodies by Hans Glas (think Glas GT) that had been shipped from Germany. 1973 saw BMW AG take full ownership of what...
This BMW Pro Mod Drag Car Runs the Quarter Mile in 6.51 Seconds
I’ve made some waves recently by posting about domestic V8 swaps in BMWs and vice-versa. Today, I’m continuing that theme by sharing with you the fastest BMW drag car in the world. BMWs are known less for their impressive horsepower and more for their handling and balance. To some,...
Real-World Tests Indicate BMW Diesels Are Remarkably Clean
According to the EcoTest, which is organized and performed by ADAC (the German automobile association), BMW diesel models including the current 520d Touring and the X1 sDrive 18d are among the cleanest-burning available on the market. Together with others, like diesel versions of the 2 Series Active Tourer and X3,...
Turner Motorsport To Open Season With GTD And GS At Daytona
Yes, it’s the announcement you’ve been waiting for: Turner Motorsport will return to the GTD class in the IMSA WeatherTech series in 2019 in an M6 GT3, and will run an M4 GT4 in the Michelin Pilot Series season opener. Bill Auberlen, Robby Foley, Jens Klingmann, and Dillon Machevern...
No Next-Gen 3 Series Wagon For U.S.
BMW wagon availability in the U.S. is set to end with the outgoing F31 long-roof 3 Series, as the automaker has confirmed to CarBuzz earlier this month. According to an unnamed BMW spokesperson, the current 3 Series wagon will soldier on for one additional model year—2019—and be sold alongside...
Choosing Your First Radio Control BMW
Nearly every car enthusiast alive has, at one point or another, contemplated dipping their toes into the fun and exciting world of radio control at their local hobby shop. Unlike the cheap toys sold at big-box stores, hobby class radio control cars and trucks offer superior quality construction, user-serviceable...
Nationwide Lifetime Membership Winner
Congratulations to Marc Brenner of the Windy City Chapter for winning a lifetime membership, trunk badge, and BMW Motorsport Steel Collection Chronograph after submitting a photo of his son next to an M3 at the Chicago Auto Show. He posted the picture above with the caption “ taking my 5 year old to...
A Retro E39 Road Test
Article By all test participants; photos by Victor Yuen and Chris Tworek One never knows what will come up at our monthly Cars, Coffee & Chat (CC&C) In Calgary Alberta. A few months ago, Gerard Mercier, came up with a spur of the moment comment that we should do a...
The Tale Of The Tool Tray
A few weeks ago, a ’74 Bavaria out in Agawam, Massachusetts, showed up in a Craigslist search. The ad said that the car ran, but mentioned that it had “some rust.” The car didn’t have a lot of curb appeal in the ad: The photos showed that (a) it...
The OTHER String Trick
The day began like many others: I went out to the garage and backed the Lama, the 5 Series, partially out to make room for doing some work on Kugel, my 2002tii, which was sitting on the mid-rise lift. Then I remembered that I’d left some tools in the...
2018: A Year In BMWs
Two weeks ago, I wrote about how the combination of my steadily-increasing number of cars and the uncertainty regarding the availability and cost of the garage spaces I rent out in Fitchburg was causing problems. At the end of the piece, the problems had been resolved, at least temporarily,...
The Eureka Moment, Slightly Diminished
In the summer of 2015, I wrote a series of articles (“A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Vintage”) about fixing Brian Ach’s 2002tii after it began running horribly on a road trip to Winston-Salem. The root cause turned out to be that the #4 fuel injector...
The Great Winter 2018 Garage-Space Crunch
Although I spent the summer and fall cheerfully dealing with Bertha and the Lama, there’s been a cloud hanging over my head. I am relieved to report that the cloud appears to be dissipating. Over the years, I’ve referred often to the number of cars I own, which seems...
The Lama Goes Legal
Last week, I described driving the insured but unregistered Lama a bit farther than the around-the-block sort-out runs I’d been previously doing, and giving it its first real application of Lamathrust. I was pretty gentle; this was not a bonsai run to red line. After all, the car had previously suffered...
