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Pristine BMW 3 Series 316i E30 Goes For An Autobahn Top Speed Run

Pristine BMW 3 Series 316i E30 Goes For An Autobahn Top Speed Run

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November 23, 2022
A veritable time capsule, this BMW 3 Series Sedan from the E30 era looks immaculate inside and out despite being built some 32 years ago. It might not be the more desirable M3 since it’s only a puny 316i, but it’s a remarkable car given how well it’s been maintained since 1990. Coming from the…
Hans-Joachim Stuck's BMW 3.0 CSL Is for Sale in the UK

Hans-Joachim Stuck's BMW 3.0 CSL Is for Sale in the UK

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November 23, 2022
Back before there was an M Division, BMW’s most successful race car was the 3.0 CSL. It was dominant in 1970s Touring car racing, with German racing driver Hans-Joachim Stuck behind the wheel. In order to go racing in the various racing series’ the 3.0 CSL competed in, there needed to be a homologated road…
Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Unbox The BMW Pegasus Plush Toy

Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Unbox The BMW Pegasus Plush Toy

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November 23, 2022
And now for something completely different… the official plush toy from BMW. Christmas may be more than a month away, but it’s never too early to pick out gifts for your loved ones. Should that person be a fan of the Bavarian brand, Arnold Schwarzenegger has just the right thing. It’s called the Pegasus and…
Vorsteiner takes their BMW M3 Project Car to SEMA in Las Vegas

Vorsteiner takes their BMW M3 Project Car to SEMA in Las Vegas

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November 23, 2022
Vorsteiner made big waves when it debuted a “fix” for the front end of the G80 BMW M3 (and G82 M4). It featured a new grille insert that horizontally bisected the grille, in an attempt to make it look like two smaller sections. Whether it worked is up for debate. However, Vorsteiner also created some…
Previously Stolen And Trashed BMW M140i Rebuilt With M2 Parts

Previously Stolen And Trashed BMW M140i Rebuilt With M2 Parts

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November 23, 2022
About a year ago, YouTuber Mat Armstrong bought a heavily damaged BMW M140i that had been stolen. The hot hatchback was missing some of its body panels, headlights, and exhaust, while the wheels were different from front to rear. Silver lining? The turbocharged 3.0-liter engine was still there and was the main reason why he…
Madrid Police Force Gets 169 Electrified BMW Vehicles

Madrid Police Force Gets 169 Electrified BMW Vehicles

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November 23, 2022
After nine years and over 250,000 cars assembled, BMW ended production of the quirky i3 hatchback back in June. However, some of the final vehicles were not delivered until earlier this week at a dedicated event in Spain. Police in Madrid took delivery of 169 vehicles, a third of which were fully electric (i3) and…
Can the BMW M4 CSL Take On the Porsche Cayman GT4 RS?

Can the BMW M4 CSL Take On the Porsche Cayman GT4 RS?

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November 22, 2022
After driving the BMW M4 CSL, my mind immediately went to the other cars in the same price bracket and whether it would be better than them. Of them all, I’ve only driven the M4 CSL, so I can’t make say one way or another. However, Auto Express has, as they recently compared the M4…
Andy Warhol's BMW M1 Art Car Gets Covered in Flour by Climate Activists

Andy Warhol's BMW M1 Art Car Gets Covered in Flour by Climate Activists

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November 22, 2022
Climate activists have been vandalizing priceless art in museums across Europe for the past few weeks. The group is called Ultima Generazione (Italian for “Last Generation”) and it’s vandalizing art in an attempt to make the point that we, as a society, value the wrong things. According to Reuters, their latest victim was the BMW…
Club Car CRU Penned By BMW Designworks Is A $30,000 Six-Seater EV

Club Car CRU Penned By BMW Designworks Is A $30,000 Six-Seater EV

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November 22, 2022
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022, Designworks has been a wholly-owned BMW subsidiary since 1995. The two started a fruitful collaboration before that as the first project came in 1986 for a conceptual design of the seat that would go on to be installed in the original 8 Series Coupe. The studio was also involved…
New BMW 5 Series Spied Riding Low With Partially Exposed Lights And Grille

New BMW 5 Series Spied Riding Low With Partially Exposed Lights And Grille

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November 22, 2022
Are you concerned the next-generation 5 Series will follow the same controversial styling direction of the 7 Series? That’s not going to happen. BMW has made it clear the polarizing front fascia also adopted by the facelifted X7 and XM will not trickle down the range. Fresh spy shots from the Nürburgring of the Mercedes…
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