BMW GINA: the fabric-skinned car Chris Bangle spent seven years building in secret to ask one question Chris Bangle is, depending on who you talk to, either the man who destroyed BMW or the man who saved it. Probably both. If you read any British or American motoring press from the early 2000s, you’ll remember … Read more
BMW M5 E60: The Most Ambitious Engine BMW Ever Built, Bolted Into the Most Hated Chassis They Ever Sold Sixty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds in 2005. Twenty-two thousand pounds today. That’s what Top Gear quoted in their best-ever V10s retrospective for a clean E60 M5. Sixty-five percent depreciation in twenty years. By way … Read more
BMW Z8: The Car Top Gear Trashed in 2000 Now Outprices Every Rival It Lost To Two hundred grand. That’s what a concours BMW Z8 trades for today, on either side of the Atlantic. A pristine Aston Martin DB7 Volante from the same year sits at about fifty. A Ferrari 360 Spider, seventy to eighty. … Read more
