Most members will know that BMW’s original business was mostly building airplane engines.
BMW Club members are fortunate to have access to the chapter’s own High Performance Driving Education events. This is the most cost-effective way to try HPDE and the only way to really drive your BMW the way it was intended without getting a ticket.
X Drives America visited the Puget Sound chapter at Pacific Raceway on August 16th.
The first social event sponsored by the Club in this part of the Pacific Northwest indeed brought out some spectacular cars.
If you missed the Deutsche Marque event on July 28th, you can still ‘visit’ via some great photos taken at the event.
BMW Milestones is a new book, published in June 2024, and available at various times and prices via Amazon’s different outposts.
This year, Plant Spartanburg celebrates 30 years of success. Over that 30-year period, the growth of the plant has been incremental, with BMW AG investing in the facility virtually every year.
Swiss aviation startup Sirius Aviation AG has introduced the Sirius Jet, dubbed the world’s first hydrogen-powered VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft that is co-designed by BMW’s Designworks and Sauber Group. Since it is powered by hydrogen, the VTOL aircraft is poised to produce zero emissions during the entire flight.
On May 29, 2024, at the Nürburgring, BMW M Motorsports introduced the 2025 customer race cars, the M4 GT3 EVO and the M4 GT4 EVO. These, as the names suggest, are evolutions of the current customer race cars. The cars have been developed by BMW M using their paid factory drivers. The emphasis was on making the cars easier to drive over long stints and to make the cars easier on their tires. The goals were better drivability, efficiency, and reliability.
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