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Detailer’s Domain G87 M2 – Test Drive
Community, Featured, Lifestyle, Reviews
A retailer and resource to the BMW and European automotive enthusiast community for decades, Phil Yiu of Detailer’s Domain, exercises restraint and finds the perfect balance of streetable, motorsport-inspired style with his latest fixation, a 2023 BMW M2 (G87). Mike Maravilla of Pit+Paddock borrows Phil’s M2 for a week...
BMW M Performance Parts Announced for the BMW M5 Touring
Exclusive details enhance appeal: a wide choice of retrofit products from the Original BMW Accessories range add further intensity to the performance experience and bring fresh individuality to the five-door high-performance sports car’s looks. The sculptural front end, prominently flared wheel arches, long roofline, dynamically stretched side window graphic...
Celebrating 20 years of the BMW PGA Championship
The 2024 BMW PGA Championship (September 19–22, 2024, Wentworth Club, Surrey, England) marks a significant milestone, as BMW celebrates its 20th year as title partner of the DP World Tour’s flagship event. The championship dates back to 1955, originally known as the British PGA Championship, before coming under BMW’s...
BMW Group and University of Zagreb Optimize Battery Cell Production With AI
Innovations arise when experts from different areas and organizations come together. This is what is happening now as part of a research cooperation between the BMW Group’s Battery Cell Competence Center (BCCC) and the University of Zagreb‘s Regional Center of Excellence for Robotic Technology (CRTA). The two partners are...
The FrankenThirty Gets Legal
Last week, I took the FrankenThirty to get inspected, and came back instead with The Scarlet R(ejection) Of Shame due to a worn-out left outer ball joint (the right one also showed a little play). There was zero question that the car could use a full steering-and-suspension refresh, as those...
New Structure at BMW Group Design Team – Innovative, Holistic, Future-Forward
The BMW Group is completely reorganizing its Design division under the leadership of Adrian van Hooydonk. Like the NEUE KLASSE, which represents the redefinition of the BMW brand with its “electric, digital, circular” philosophy, a new cross-brand design team will be launched on October 1, 2024, to meet changing...
Winners of BMW Group Award for Social Responsibility 2024 Announced
“The BMW Group Award for Social Responsibility is truly inspiring. It highlights the profound impact individual dedication can have and shows how commitment to others strengthens the entire community. Our associates are driving change by developing practical solutions to social problems. Their projects create a positive impact and serve...
Paddock Talk: Paul Sparta
Paul Sparta is the team principal of the Random Vandals Racing team, which competes with BMW in both the SRO GT4 America and GT World Challenge championships as well as the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge series. Paul is not only the team owner, but also a driver, and he...
First FIA World Endurance Championship Podium For M Hybrid V8 In Japan
BMW M Team WRT scored the first podium finish for the M Hybrid V8 in FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) competition in the 6 Hours of Fuji race in Japan, which was the penultimate round of the 2024 season. The #15 M Hybrid V8 of Dries Vanthoor, Marco Wittmann...
The Surprising E30 (Part V: Eet Ees Alive)
When last we saw my FrankenThirty, the odd salvage-titled 325is whose back section appears to be post-facelift but whose nose and engine compartment appears to be pre-facelift and whose engine is unfortunately the low-revving eta motor, I’d finished installing the new timing belt and water pump (knowing that they...
A V10 BMW M5 Touring Is A Happy Place
The internet has been abuzz with chatter following news that the BMW M5 Touring will be available in the US for the first time ever. We’ve been missing out for decades, however, first with the early ’90s M5 Touring (E34), followed by the M5 Touring (E61) in the late...
30 Years of Dismantling and Recycling BMWs
For 30 years, the BMW Group’s Recycling and Dismantling Centre (RDC) has been developing and testing processes to achieve significant advances in the recycling of parts and reusable materials. The expertise gained at the RDC is shared with a global network in the recycling industry and helps to promote...
Seat Time In A 1991 318iS
Community, Featured, Lifestyle
Do you have an automotive project that you’ve put off until next year? Did “next year” turn into almost ten? I’ve owned my 1991 318iS for eight-and-a-half years, and for the duration of that ownership I’ve been saying that I would recover my ripped and torn driver’s seat “next...
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE: LAST DAYS OF RAFFLE! Win a $1000 Amazon Gift Card!
BMW News, Community, Lifestyle
Get ready for the chance to win a fantastic BMW dream car, but only if you’re a member of the BMW Car Club of America. UPDATES! Every raffle ticket purchased between Thursday, September 12th and Monday, September 23rd at 11:59 p.m. ET will be entered into the Special Drawing for a $1,000...
Happy Anniversary, Bertha
I’m going to take a break from the FrankenThirty this week because, well, I’m taking a break from everything: Maire Anne and I are on vacation celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary up in Truro near the tip of Cape Cod. And with that, it’s hard not to think...
Road & Track – Is the BMW X5M Competition a Better ‘Wagon’ Than the Incoming G99 M5?
BMW News, Community, Lifestyle, Reviews
**Editor’s Note: This year’s BMW CCA Dream Car Raffle Grand Prize is a custom 1-of-1 BMW CCA Edition 2025 BMW X5 M Competition. Learn more about the model in this article and visit bmwcca.org/raffle for more information about this year’s Grand Prize.** While the upcoming BMW M5 Touring (G99)...
BMW Overtakes Tesla Sales in Europe – Is Elon to Blame?
BMW News, Community, Lifestyle, Reviews
BMW fans can rejoice as Tesla’s popularity seems to be waning, based on recent sales statistics in Europe. Elon Musk’s often controversial outspokenness was once considered a marketing asset, overshadowing online banter poking at build quality inconsistencies and Cybertruck memes, his handling of the social media platform previously known...
Tested: 2024 BMW 540i xDrive
BMW News, Community, Lifestyle, Reviews
While we haven’t personally had our hands on the new 2024 BMW 5-Series (G60), if it continues to deliver the plush yet powerful and capable improvements that the preceding G30 5-Series did over the F10, we’re ready. “I can’t believe it’s not a V-12″ smoothness, luxury-car isolation, compact-car fuel...
What’s The Greatest BMW M Car Ever Made?
BMW News, Community, Lifestyle
Now this is a decades-old contested topic. Is there a right answer? How many times has your personal answer changed over the years? Many argue that the E30 M3 embodies all that is purely M. The greatest of all time. What of the M1 then? Posh and timeless E34...
MINI Continues 65 Year Celebration With 2025 Countryman SE ALL4
MINI USA welcomes the new, all-electric MINI Countryman SE ALL4 on U.S. shores as the brand celebrates 65 years since the first Mini Mark I rolled off the production line in 1959. As the all-electric version of MINI’s first-ever SUV, this versatile addition to the new MINI Family boasts...
A Complete 180 With A US-Spec E36 M3
Community, Featured, Lifestyle
A belated Father’s Day activity, a July 4th family trip, or an excuse to get out and drive—call it whatever you like, but I successfully lobbied my family to take a short 180-mile road trip to Shenandoah National Park, amidst an oppressive heat wave, in our 252,000-mile 1998 M3...
BMW’s Electrification: Road to the i3
BMW News, Community, Lifestyle
From the first electric BMW, a 1972 1602e, to the launch of the i3 a decade ago, the electrification of road vehicles is nothing new for the BMW Group, now celebrating over 50 years of electric mobility. The BMW E2 built by BMW Designworks originally presented at the 1992...
X Drives America Visits Seattle
Editor’s Note: This article was first published to BMW CCA Puget Sound Chapter’s Zundfolge. By Valerie Caprigno X Drives America started as a crazy idea that dreamer and former VP, Barön Selman, of the X Chapter hatched. He envisioned a member-to-member relay event with no set route or timeline...
BMW M Team Redline Sweeps ESL R1 Titles at Esports World Cup
BMW News, Community, Events, Lifestyle, Motorsport
BMW M Team Redline wins the R1 team championship title at Esports World Cup 2024, with their driver Kevin Siggy winning in the overall category with teammate Sebastian Job coming in a close second. Making an impressive mark in the drivers championship, BMW M Teams Redline took first, second...
50th place to victory: Keegan Bradley wins the BMW Championship
Keegan Bradley started the BMW Championship in 50th place in the FedExCup rankings, making him the last qualified player to enter the tournament – and he finished as the shining winner. The American celebrated his seventh victory on the PGA TOUR and his second at the BMW Championship. The...
The FrankenThirty Gets Legal
Last week, I took the FrankenThirty to get inspected, and came back instead with The Scarlet R(ejection) Of Shame due to a worn-out left outer ball joint (the right one also showed a little play). There was zero question that the car could use a full steering-and-suspension refresh, as those...
The Surprising E30 (Part V: Eet Ees Alive)
When last we saw my FrankenThirty, the odd salvage-titled 325is whose back section appears to be post-facelift but whose nose and engine compartment appears to be pre-facelift and whose engine is unfortunately the low-revving eta motor, I’d finished installing the new timing belt and water pump (knowing that they...
Happy Anniversary, Bertha
I’m going to take a break from the FrankenThirty this week because, well, I’m taking a break from everything: Maire Anne and I are on vacation celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary up in Truro near the tip of Cape Cod. And with that, it’s hard not to think...
The Surprising E30 (Part IV: Mice)
The story thus far: I jumped at the opportunity to buy a running essentially rust-free 1988 E30 325is near Albany NY for five grand. I knew that the car had a rebuilt salvage title from an event in 1992, but I didn’t care. I shot out there with my...
The Surprising E30 (Part III: Water Pump and Timing Belt)
After the elation of buying the essentially rust-free running 1988 325is, followed by the crushing disappointment of finding that it it’s a Franken-car with an eta engine, I still needed to carry through with the basics of making it something that I can either live with or sell. The...
The Surprising E30 (Part II)
When I bought the rust-free rebuilt-salvage-titled 1988 325is last week and titled the piece “The Surprising E30,” I was talking about good surprises. I literally said that The Automotive Powers That Be seemed to be channeling my wishes. I had no idea how, uh, surprising it would continue be. Because...
