BMW 3.0 CSL Batmobile: The Car BMW Sold You With the Wing Dismantled in the Boot There’s a photograph that circulates in BMW collector circles of a German customer in 1974 taking delivery of his brand-new 3.0 CSL. He opens the boot. Inside, lying neatly across the carpet, are three pieces of black-painted aluminium — … Read more
BMW 2002 turbo: The Car So Aggressive It Was Debated in the German Parliament There aren’t many production cars that have ended up in a national parliament debate. A war memorial, sure. A political scandal involving a transport minister, occasionally. But an actual production sports car argued over at federal government level for the design … Read more
BMW Won Le Mans Once. The Wing Nearly Took It Away at 330km/h Ask any BMW enthusiast to name the company’s greatest racing achievement and watch them hesitate. The M1 Procar? The touring car dynasties? The Brabham-BMW turbo that won Piquet a title? All defensible. But the honest answer is a car most people couldn’t … Read more
Alex Zanardi is gone. And we have nothing left to ask of him. The man rebuilt himself twice. Three times if you count the kid in Castel Maggiore who built his first kart out of scrap metal because his parents wouldn’t sign off on what he wanted to do with his life. Alex Zanardi died … Read more
BMW 850 CSi: The 380 HP V12 BMW Built to Humiliate Mercedes and Failed Gloriously The Grand Tourer That Arrived at Exactly the Wrong Moment In 1992, BMW presented the world with the 850 CSi: a Grand Tourer with a 5.6-liter V12 engine, 380 hp of power, a 6-speed manual transmission as the only option, … Read more
