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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,...
O’Fest Update: More Hotel Rooms Added, Capacity Increased For Select Events
Over the last week, we have secured rooms at special club-rates at three more host hotels in downtown Greenville to keep up with demand. Rooms are available at both the Hyatt Place and the Holiday Inn Express for $159, plus taxes with free parking. Also, the Courtyard hotel is...
This Is The Vintage—And Here’s Why You Should Care
“Well, that’s the end of the year.” It’s 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning. We’re standing under the already-bright North Carolina sun, listening to the thrum of straight-sixes, Ansa mufflers, and the tin-and-rubber click of trunk lids. The cars are warming up ahead of drives that will be between six and...
Why Is the F90 M5 So Fast?
Blistering is one way to describe the current BMW M5 and M5 Competition. Although many spoke out against the advent of an all-wheel drive M car, the F90 M5 was quick to win over the masses as soon as the first real-world performance measurements came back, with zero-to-60 times...
BMW Group Posts Sales Gain For April
The BMW Group has continued to defy broader market trends and conditions for another successive month in 2019, with sales of BMW, MINI, and Rolls-Royce vehicles expanding 0.7% during April to 196,179. Year-to-date results are still largely flat, with growth of 0.2% coming from from 801,520 unit sales so...
Enjoy Summer With This Stunning Droptop E24
I’m not ashamed to admit that I haven’t been a BMW fanatic for nearly as long as most of my readers. However, one car that I have always carried a torch for is the E24 6 Series. While I’d say that I’ve only been a BMW enthusiast since my...
Eng Scores First DTM Win At Zolder
Philipp Eng in the #25 BMW Team RMR M4 DTM won the first of two DTM races on the Zolder circuit in Belgium on Saturday, May 18. He then led the BMW contingent in race two on Sunday with a second-place finish. In race one on Saturday Eng, was...
M4 GT4 Racers Win In Blancpain World Challenge At CTMP
BMW racers scored two class wins in the Blancpain World Challenge races at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on May 17–19. Randy Mueller and James Clay in the #3 Epic Motorsports M4 GT4 won the East Am class in the first SprintX race on Friday. The car finished fourth overall....
M6 GT3s Sweep The Podium In The Nürburgring 24 Qualifying Race
BMW M6 GT3 teams took the top three positions in the six-hour qualifying race for the Nürburgring 24. Christian Krognes, David Pittard, and Nick Yelloly finished first in the Walkenhorst Motorsport #101 BMW M6 GT3. Jesse Krohn and John Edwards were second in the Rowe Racing team #99 M6...
Jordan Wins Two Races As BTCC Runs At Thruxton
Andrew Jordan in the #77 West Surrey Racing 330i M Sport, coming back after an accident that sent him to the hospital in the last British Touring Car event, won both race one and race two on the series’ May 18–19 weekend at Thruxton. His WSR teammate Colin Turkington...
VIDEO: Martin Tomczyk Highlights Motorsport Technology In Upcoming M8
The M8 is coming, and with every fresh detail we learn, excitement grows for BMW’s new performance range-topper. M6 and 6 Series sales are in their final stage of tapering off, while the M8 has since moved beyond its final stage of development, as we approach its upcoming reveal...
Mazda Developing New Inline-Six Engine Aimed At BMW, Mercedes
The inline-six cylinder engine layout is in the midst of a wonderful renaissance right now, with staunch holdout BMW joined by the likes of Mercedes-Benz a few years ago, and a host of fresh entrants planning or unveiling their own new designs more recently. A few months ago, Jaguar...
Finding Fun At Funfzehn Auto
Even with “new math,” one plus one is still two. But on Sunday, April 28, one plus one equaled three—or maybe even more—in Southern California when the LA Chapter teamed with an Orange County landmark of BMW service, Funfzehn Auto, to hold a chapter meet and Funfzehn open house....
Next-Gen M3 Slated For Unveiling During September In Frankfurt
Automotive news media sources are reporting that the next-generation M3, which will likely ride on what is being referred as the G80 platform, is scheduled for its world premier at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September. Speculation, which we have previously examined, includes the use of the new S58...
8 Series Gran Coupe Appears Shrouded In Shadows Ahead Of June Reveal
It’s going to be hard to follow up on the aesthetically pleasing success that is the 6 Series Gran Coupe, but with that model having been in production from June of 2012 until September of 2018, a replacement is due. BMW is prepared though, and with the long awaited...
What Is BMW’s Mustang?
I own and love a lot of different cars, and while I’m known primarily as a BMW enthusiast, I also have a real soft spot for the Ford Mustang. For the past seven years, I’ve owned one of my childhood dream cars: a 1996 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra. It’s...
O’Fest Registration To Open May 8 At 11 A.M. EDT
Registration will open on Wednesday, May 8, at 11 a.m. EDT for perhaps the most anticipated event in the history of the club—the 50th Annual BMW CCA Oktoberfest presented by Michelin. Members will make the journey back “home” to the Greenville/Spartanburg area for an epic anniversary celebration at the...
Celebrating The Big Coupe At Southeast Sharkfest
In a world of single-marque shows, it’s easy to find environments that celebrate all things BMW. But it takes another level of passion to create a festival around a single model, exploring all of the intricacies and variations that go into a full production run. For E30 M3 owners,...
BMW M Festival Coming To Canada, July 13–14
Our friends up north at BMW Canada are bringing the M Festival to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on July 13-14. With it being held relatively close to the Northeastern US, we thought we’d share it here. Below is the official information and ticket link.—Chris Hennecy THE BMW M FESTIVAL...
BMW Ring-Testing Entry-Level 8 Series
Last year I wrote about an abortive attempt by BMW to build an entry-level 8 Series back in the early 1990s. Apparently they’re at it again—with an entirely different approach. This time it might actually be a success. My colleague at Motor1.com (my day job) wrote about a spy...
NCC ChapterFest 2019 At Summit Point Raceway, May 11
The National Capital Chapter’s largest event is finally here! Chapterfest 2019 will be held on Saturday, May 11, at Summit Point Raceway, a short drive from the Washington DC area. The chapter has a full day of fun events planned, and a huge turnout is expected! Here’s what’s in...
One Day Only: BMW CCA Members Can Save 25% During Brooks Brothers Shopping Event!
Brooks Brothers is excited to announce their upcoming Corporate Shopping Event on Thursday, May 2, 2019. BMW CCA members are eligible to receive a 25% savings on full-price purchases online, by phone, and in retail stores (not valid in factory stores). You must sign up for a free Corporate...
The Evolution Of BMW’s Brilliant V12
With the end of the horizon potentially in sight for the BMW V12 engine—perhaps shortly after the model year 2023—we thought it might be both useful and interesting top recall the history of the V12, which first came to market just over 30 years ago, during the late 1980s....
Missing The Dream Wagon (By That Much)
Three days ago, someone posted a Le Mans blue, six-speed, BMW 328i M-Sport Touring on the BMW CCA Classifieds for $5,900. I’ll save you some time though: it sold. For wagon aficionados, it was the dream wagon. A spectacular culmination of all things that the E91 3 series Touring...
Forbes Says Skip The 911 For An M5
Still skeptical of M cars coming with xDrive? Consider a recent take from Forbes in which contributor Rob Reed, who happens to own a 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S, opines that the F90 M5 Competition is perhaps the better alternative. What makes the M5 so great, according to the...
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...
The Free Faux 2002tii, Part II
Last week, I was offered (and accepted) a free faux (fake) 1973 2002tii. I’d looked at the car last year and, at the time, passed on it. I couldn’t remember the exact reasons why, but I assume I’d determined that the body was too far gone. A fake tii...
The Free Faux 2002tii, Part I
I’m a big believer in pay-it-forward. Oh, to be sure, when I have a car or a part that’s worth real money, I want real money, but for parts that have been sitting in my garage for decades, I’d rather bask in the karmic glow of give-away. Twice I’ve...
Full-On Into The Rites Of Spring
I tend to go full-on in all things. For a glorious week 27 months ago, I was full-on resurrecting Louie from his decade-long snooze. Last summer, for nearly three months I went full-on resurrecting Bertha after she’d been sitting for 26 years. My gaze then turned to the Lama,...
Making Contact Is A Good Thing
A few years ago, I wrote a series of articles about the Turkey, a rusty, long-dead 1973 2002 that followed me home. Rust had eaten away not only the rockers, but also the mounting point for the right rear subframe bushing, so, absent a major bodywork commitment that the...
