The BMW Motorsports division and Williams Grand Prix Engineering came together to build a car for Le Mans.  They named it the BMW V12 Le Mans, and the car itself was an open top two-seater with a 550 HP V12 engine. Designed to be raced in class 1, the car adhered to the minimum weight restriction of [...]

Last Friday, I didn’t post a 5series picture of the week. A million apologies 5Series! Tomorrow I’ll return with the regularly scheduled posting. In the mean time, I’ll post a a video of the week. It also comes from the Macau Motorcycle GP.  I hope this video gives you a perspective of the race you haven’t [...]

Today, the “Superleggera” moniker is associated with the Lamborghini Gallardo. Did you know that BMW had its own “Superleggera” bodied model almost 70 years before the special edition Lambo hit the floor at Geneva? The BMW 328 roadster burst onto the scene in June 1936 at the Eifelrennen race held at the famous, but then [...]

This post actually begins with an episode of The Simpsons.  On April 26, 1996, Fox aired the episode, “Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in “The Curse of The Flying Hellfish” ” I have a working theory that someone at BMW was watching that episode. In the episode, Abe and Bart must outduel Mr. [...]

This weekend Formula 1 heads to Shanghai, China, and we on 5series journey back to a time when BMW teamed up with Sauber to race at the Shanghai International Circuit. BMW’s PR department was actually ahead of the curve when it came to making multimedia content available to fans of the team.  Before each race, [...]

Last November was the 59th running of the Macau Grand Prix. That weekend was also the 46th time motorcycles raced the streets of Macau. BMW was well represented with ten of their 1000cc machines on the grid.  I covered the race that weekend in November and wrote a couple articles and snapped a few pictures. [...]

With some exceptions the lineup of BMW cars available to the public in North America is the same as lineup found in Germany and Europe. It wasn’t always the case that this side of the Atlantic Ocean could drive the products that BMW offered. Do you know the man who changed all that? Do you [...]