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.

With its BMW Concept Skytop design study, the BMW Group is once again bringing an exceptionally elegant, one-of-a-kind vehicle to this year’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, the annual beauty contest for historic cars and motorcycles held on the shores of Lake Como. This year’s show was held last weekend (May 24-26, 2024).

BMW’s 20th Art Car had its coming out party on May 21, 2024, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The artist is Julie Mehretu, an Ethiopian-born, American woman, born in 1970. Her ‘canvas’ was the BMW M Hybrid racecar, which will participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.