That stretch of road in town where all the tuners come out to play. Car guys and girls know where to find it and which cars frequent the spot. Some hoods are popped and people gather ‘round to see what the other guy brought to show off. Engine swaps, intakes, headers, and  dubious custom modifications, [...]

With all the great successes BMW has had in motorsport, the 24 hours of LeMans was a race the company had never won.  The team started design on the V12 LMR in 1997 and for the year in which it was built, the car was quite modern in construction.  The chassis was carbon fibre and [...]

  BMW is no stranger to success out at the sunny Long Beach Grand Prix track and the BMW Team RLL drivers have found their way to the Long Beach podium for five consecutive years in the ALMS series. The winning pattern continued this weekend as the team competed in only its second race with the new Z4 GTE cars, driven by Bill Auberlen and [...]

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 [...]

New wheels and a new grill are in store for the M5 if these spy shots are to be believed. Other than that… not a lot is going to change. The kidney grills will be getting slightly bigger and a slightly different shape. Also, the wheels are different, but that’s hardly something you can count [...]