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Sep
17th
2016
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BMW F800GT Unencumbered with Excesses
Despite GT prefix, this BMW feels far from Gran Turismo, but as quite a compact, lightweight vehicle unencumbered with excessive comfort and sorts of technological bells and whistles as his older tourer brothers R1200RT and K1600GT, the motorcycle...
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Sep
2nd
2016
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May
21th
2015
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The Third in Hommage Series: BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage
"Hommage" is "tribute" in French. On May 22, i.e. tomorrow, a "car beauty contest" Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2015 will start in Italy, and BMW, among others, will present their third concept in Hommage Series: BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage...
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Mar
10th
2015
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Why does Bristol 400 have a BMW "kidney grille"?
When I first saw this car in the photos, I was surprised: what it is – a little-known early model of BMW? But the emblem seems to be not blue-white (BMW) and not red-white (EMW)... After studying the issue, it turned out that it was one of the cars of Bristol Cars Limited of Series 400-403, and two "nostrils" on the grille are swiped from BMW...
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Mar
9th
2015
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Brief Overview of BMW i8 Hybrid
BMW i8 is a unique hybrid car because it was developed almost "from scratch", unlike other manufacturers that for the most part adapt their existing projects when creating new models. In case of i8, BMW abandoned the use of a standard aluminum or steel body in favor of carbon-fiber monocoque developed in close cooperation with the American company SG Carbon...
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Mar
7th
2015
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Sports History of BMW M3 E30
First serial BMW M3 was presented in the autumn of 1985 at Frankfurt Motor Show, two years after the debut of its main competitor – Mercedes-Benz 190E. But BMW with similar five-speed manual Getrag transmission was faster. Its acceleration to 100 km/h was in 6.7 seconds, while Mercedes-Benz 190E had 7.5 seconds...
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Oct
20th
2014
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Rare BMW concepts from the sixties
In the 60’s, BMW in collaboration with renowned Italian designers Pietro Frua, Giuseppe Bertone and Marcello Gandini created some interesting concepts, the majority of them in one piece. BMW 2800 Spicup from Bertone is somewhat known in the Internet due to its queerness and that it came to our time today in good condition; but the concepts of Pietro Frua are all virtually unknown, you can not even find pictures of a decent resolution...
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Oct
8th
2014
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BMW-Munich-Bayern vs EMW-Eisenach-Thuringia
In the late thirties of the twentieth century, by the beginning of the Second World War, BMW was one of the most successful car companies in Germany and in the world. However, with the outbreak of the war it had to forget about cars, preserve pre-war prototypes of sports and passenger cars and begin restoring production of aircraft engines and other military equipment...
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Oct
4th
2014
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How and why BMW are utilized
In Munich, there is a centre for dismantling and recycling of BMW cars. You can visit, and you will be shown the racks with new cars by the looks of it. In the nearest future they will disappear, dissolve in time, turn into dust...
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Sept
24th
2014
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BMW 2000 SA: italian design with german engine in Rhodesia
From 1968 to 1973, in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa, the South African Branch of BMW produced BMW 1800SA and BMW 2000SA cars. Despite the design quite unlike BMW, the car is noteworthy because of its intricate history...
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June
28th
2014
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The Hofmeister kink story
It would seem that everyone could recognize a BMW car on the street by its body attributes, such like "kidney grille" (applicable from 1933) or more modern twin headlights around the grille (which stands since the mid-sixties). However, there is one more remarkable element which first came to BMW in 1961...
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June
26th
2014
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Andy Warhol and BMW
One of the brightest representatives of the art collection was the BMW M1, which was painted by the legendary Andy Warhol in 1979. He painted the car himself from the beginning to the end, without thorough preparatory work (not like all other artists, participated in the BMW Art Cars before Warhol), and then left his autograph on the car body...
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