As the most successful F1 driver on the grid with 17 victories and two Drivers’ titles, Niki Lauda would already have been among the favourites to walk away with the 1979 Procar Championship.
Read MoreAt the Paris Motor Show in October 1972, BMW unveiled a styling concept with a turbocharged version of the two-litre M10 engine. The Paul Bracq-designed E25 Turbo had a mid-mounted…
Read MoreConsidering just how unbelievably ugly most BMWs from the modern era have become, it may surprise some of our younger readers that, from the late 1960s through to the early 2000s, the…
Read MoreAlthough the 3.2-litre E36 M3 Evolution has the most powerful engine fitted to BMW Motorsport’s compact 90s offering, our favourite iteration of the second generation M3 was the limited run GT…
Read MoreEven though an oil crisis caused by a 1973-1974 war in the Middle East massively curtailed its works career, BMW’s E9 CSL remained the best top flight Group 2 racing car throughout the remainder of…
Read MoreBy dropping a close relative of the M1’s dual overhead cam 24 valve straight six into the elegant Paul Bracq-designed 6-series bodyshell which was then further enhanced with uprated…
Read MoreFor 1995, BMW decided to run its E36-based M3 GTR in IMSA’s popular GTS-2 category for GT racing cars. The programme was managed on BMW’s behalf by Tom Milner’s Prototype…
Read MoreHaving been conceived with the primary intention of serving as the basis for a Group 4 and 5 racing programme, the prospect of a multi-year homologation delay owing to production issues meant…
Read MoreWhen it came to an off-the-shelf mid-sized super saloon during the first half of the 1980s, nothing in the Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar or Alfa Romeo arsenal could touch the BMW Motorsport-enhanced…
Read MoreWith a bigger bodyshell and more refined six cylinder engine than the outgoing E30 M3 (which had used a racey four cylinder motor), in many ways BMW’s E36-based expression of the M3 theme felt…
Read MoreHaving commissioned the first two instalments of its burgeoning Art Car theme in time for the 1975 and ‘76 Le Mans 24 Hour races, BMW went on to order a third machine that would appear at the…
Read MoreThe 1980s really was a great time for large-engined German Grand Tourers with Audi, BMW and Porsche all taking a divergent approach with the Quattro, M635 CSi and 928 respectively. For an…
Read MoreUnfortunately, owing to poor trading conditions caused by a global economic recession, over the winter of 1991-1992 BMW elected to abandon its plans for an M1 successor after Ital Design had…
Read MoreThe earliest Alpina-tuned variants of the Paul Bracq-styled E12 arrived very soon after this, the first generation 5-series, made its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1972. Having initially…
Read MoreAlthough the radical M8 never made it into production, BMW Motorsport did work their magic on another iteration of the E31 8-series: the 850 CSi. Unusually, the 850 CSi did without the familiar…
Read MoreFollowing the launch of BMW’s range-topping E31 8-series at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1989, the Munich firm’s Motorsport department began work on a pair of high…
Read MoreIn March 2001, 18 months after the E46 M3’s launch, BMW added their Sequential Manual Gearbox II to the options list (SMG II). Following on from the original SMG unit offered on the E36 M3, this…
Read MoreAfter the success of BMW’s first Art Car, an E9 CSL painted by Alexander Calder which garnered a huge amount of publicity at the 1975 Le Mans 24 Hours, the Munich firm commissioned a second…
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