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BMW Z3 V12: Customized From The Secret Images: BMW Z3 With A V12 Engine

The BMW M GmbH celebrates its 40th Birthday. Congratulations. Gifts are of course also, and for the fans: BMW shows previously secret images of a Z3 M roadster with a V12 engine.

Car manufacturers need to make money. Is responsible for promoting sales of bread and butter product. Behind closed doors, however, is screwed with passion, filled and pimped. With a little luck to get ideas and to the public, as in this case. The BMW Z3 (type E36 / 7) by BMW M GmbH has been pimped up with a twelve-cylinder V-engine. The performance of the Z3 is expected to move over 300 hp at the level of known 7-series models with twelve-cylinder. The recent heaviness with a Z3 Roadster V12, however, must not be omitted, which has probably led to such a car never went into series production. The photos of this special BMW Z3 M Roadster released own way on Facebook.

RS Racing Team M3 M3/BMW CRT: Comparison Tuning M3 Series Against CRT

The RS-M3 weighs nearly 200 pounds less than an M3 series. Is that enough to also be facilitated and also strengthened BMW M3 CRT on and off the track to overtake?


Club sports at the highest level - the company that advertises RS-Racing Team. Translated means race car with road permission. No half measures, not just sports tires, turbo lush and thick pipes at the rear. The racing team is going on in his conversion, like trying to build a track car. Only that can be bolted to the end plate with TÜV stamp. The first project is a white M3 sedan. IMAGE AUTO SPORTS CARS, the dull gray CRT soda already been tested extensively and concludes: Better, faster M3 sedan, there can be no really. The comparison is hard to explain it to the track now. Before the motors have reached the optimum temperature for the second fight, before we put the two rivals closer.

BMW Individual: 1 Series M Coupe Green Mamba The Best For Last

At the end of the production of the 1 Series M Coupe, BMW Individual with four copies of a rarity on the wheels. One copy is painted in Java Green Metallic: the 1 Series M Coupe Green Mamba.

The latest BMW 1 Series M Coupé ran in mid-June 2012 on tape. With the limited number of 6331 top 1ern not only the special character of the car will be knighted, but a mundane fact done enough: some tools for the production reached its zenith. At the end of production, BMW Individual with four copies of a rarity on the wheels. One of them goes by the name "Green Mamba". In money, it really adds to the value of the single piece to 9100 €, the spirit behind it is priceless, however.

BMW 125i Coupe / Toyota GT 86: Comparison Toyota, BMW

Toyota and BMW 125i Coupe GT86 are the time machines of modern times. She beamed back to us in an era in which not everything better, but the fun was driving on pristine

Future - that sounds exciting. But we want to go there really a car enthusiast? Saving systems, fuel-price profiteering, speed limit ... unvergnuglich pretty! Then back to the past rather than "driving pleasure" is not a promotional formula and was able to distinguish the men from the boys by the number of mosquitoes that were glued to her side window. Movie hero Marty McFly took in 1985 for his trip through the decades, a DeLorean with a flux capacitor. The time machine today called Toyota GT 86 and the BMW 125i coupe. The latter beams us back to the glory days of the normally aspirated engine. Those were the days! Turbocharger, the engine displacement to force midgets dwarfs inflating, were considered the devil's work. Power came from large displacements and high speeds.

BMW M4 Coupe: Erlkonig 450 Hp In The BMW M4

BMW is testing a version of M-shift of the 4, as evidenced by our Erlkonig images. The culmination of the series comes with a six cylinder, three turbochargers and 450 horsepower.

That introduces the new BMW 3 Series Coupe small number of games that we know already. For the two-door car in the future may be adorned with a 4. Last but not least an indication that it will also go up in price league. The 4-4 Coupe and Cabriolet have killed our Erlkonig-hunters already, now comes the king of the 4: The M4 will complete the series up. The designers have, in principle, the face of 3ers adapted, but missed the M4 a flatter kidney and increases the bonnet with power domes. The wheels and brakes provide a clear indication that this is not a normal coupe, but M4 to the new flyer.

Electric Cars BMW And Opel Demand Subsidies

The German automaker claims for state promotion of electric cars will be louder. Particularly BMW and Opel to win support for their electricity.

BMW and Opel demand subsidies for electric cars, so that their expensive cars are not designed Clerks. BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer said now that the federal government would have in eight years, a million electric vehicles on the road, "but last year sold just 2000, including 100 at retail." This would be bought, despite the high prices anymore, it need incentives "for example, the tax law." Opel Chief Technology Officer Rita Forst told the "Handelsblatt" car-annual conference in Munich: "There is no point in just a couple of pilot vehicles and showcase projects to have." The customer expects affordable alternatives here, right now, but "the purchase price is a major problem." In France and some other countries there are subsidies. If Europe is a departure from fossil fuels really serious about, "then financial incentives are the only logical conclusion," said Forst. "The auto industry needs more, more support." Because at the end of the day they had to earn money with electric cars.

German Car Number One Reason To Sell Audi And Co

Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche to govern according to the U.S. magazine "Fortune" on the streets. Why German premium cars are so successful, the magazine assigned a ten-point list.

Das US-Magazin "Fortune" hat die deutschen Premiumautobauer Audi, BMW, Mercedes und Porsche als die besten der Welt bezeichnet. Die Amis haben eine Liste mit zehn Gründen veröffentlicht, warum deutsche Luxusautos mit fetten V6- und V8-Motoren weltweit immer Käufer finden. Die Top Ten von "Fortune" erklären das Phänomen unter anderem mit der großen Tradition der deutschen Marken oder den Motorsport-Erfolgen. Auch das stetig gute Image der Marken trotz neuer Nischenprodukte und sogar das fehlende Tempolimit auf den Autobahnen dienen als Begründung für den Erfolg von Porsche und Co.

Registrations U.S. in June 2012 Sales Booming in America

In the U.S. passenger car sales rose in July 2012 by a whopping 22 percent. This is the U.S. market to support the German carmakers have discontinued all more cars than last year.

High growth rates in the U.S. auto market is increasingly becoming a support for the German car manufacturer. While sold in most Western European countries because of the debt crisis and high unemployment, few new cars, passenger car sales rose in June 2012 in the United States, a surprisingly strong 22 percent. Low interest rates, declining gasoline prices and the high average age of their cars more than ten years, drove the Americans into the sale of houses. In addition to the major U.S. automakers GM and Ford and directed by Fiat-Chrysler U.S. sales, the German manufacturer Volkswagen, Porsche and Daimler cars much more than a year ago. On the plus was evident, however, for the Japanese manufacturer Toyota out for particularly weak prior-year figures.

BMW M135i: Driving Report To Drive The New Top-Ones

The M135i is the top model of the 1-series. A 320-hp inline six-cylinder turbo provides plenty of power under the hood. How is the new compact-athletes from Munich depart, clears the first drive report.

Fter the disappearance of the BMW 1 Series M Coupe of the M135i is the new jock Munich. A 320-hp, six-row twin-turbo power makes the compact Bavaria spurt. It is a real cream-Engine: sovereign drafts, minimal turbo lag and finely adjustable throttle response. At high speeds, the turbocharged six-cylinder engine works almost sucker-like, one of the few turbo engines that will actually be rotated. Sonically, the unit holds back most, only at high speeds, the throaty sound. The adaptive suspension is doing decently well. There is much tighter than in the normal 1 Series , but not as hard as a board as in the 1 Series M Coupe . The traction confident turn-in of the M135i is neutral to slightly understeering.

BMW 3 Series ActiveHybrid 3: So The Report Goes Driving Hybrid 3

BMW 3 Series to make the hybrids. As an Active Hybrid 3 as he has an eight-cylinder power. A six-cylinder gasoline engine and an electric motor making 340 hp along with a small thirst. First drive report.

340 hp in a compact sedan: It smells more like fun than driving to save, and it is also meant. "Hybrid" sounds eco, but if BMW Motorenduo from the 5 Series in the smaller 3 Series wedges, going from the first and second, the post-consumption bill is not on. The prospectus (5.9 litres/100 km) create only pedal Treichler. It does not matter. If, in practice, two, through three liters more, the electric motor has at least achieved one thing: He has replaced two cylinders. V8 power to six-cylinder conditions - for green tinged lead foot is also a step forward.

Fast and Furious 6: Spring 2013 Nearly Six Plays in Germany too?

Fast-and-Furious fans have to at least exercise in patience until May 2013. Then, as the makers are planning, is the sixth installment in theaters. Possible Handlungsort: Berlin.

"Fast Six" comes. In late spring 2013 to plan the makers of the Fast and Furious series-the theatrical release of the recent sixth part. And since then to be still not concluded there is already speculation about a possible sequel, titled "Almost Seven". The scenarios are rumors according to the most recent episode "Fast Five" tie. Fans of the spectacular blockbuster, which became known mainly because of muscle cars, hope that the remaining questions are answered in Part Five: War Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) in a bank robbery in Europe involved, and his ex-partner Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez) still alive? Cast is as secure compound next to Vin Diesel and Paul Walker (as Brian O'Conner), the use of Dwayne Johnson (as Luke Hobbs) and Jordana Brewster (as Mia Toretto). For great astonishment saw the announcement that include singer Rihanna and actress Gina Carano to the circle of actors should.

BMW 328i Touring: The Report Driving Under The BMW Station Wagon

Convenient and quick, he's always been. In the new generation of the Munich lifestyle truck to conveyor-talent has won. Traveling in the BMW 328i Touring.

Stammtischbrüder all countries, your prejudices, you can safely with a "Halbert" wash down! The 3 Series Touring is no car for people who just want a station wagon, but no need. The new generation (Dealer start: September 2012) has discovered the desire to shop. She travels as comfortable as never before - and is still a BMW remained. The BMW in the station wagon.

Audi A3 Vario: Preview Sun is Audi's First Van!

In addition to Avant and Sportback is still room for a third car with lots of space. Based on the Audi A3, the first van produced in Ingolstadt. Start: end of 2016.

A Ussen compact as an A3, inside large and spacious as an A4 Audi launches its first van in 2016, the A3 Vario. Who the basic layout of the 4.50-meter-high roof cars sounds familiar - parts donor is the VW Touran. Almost the entire A3 engine range is also available in XXL model used. New compared to only just introduced three-door is the 211-hp two-liter petrol engine and the top diesel, which leaves it open with 180 hp no power requirements. Prices range from just over 24,000 projected for the lowest gasoline to € 41,000 € for the most sparkling S3 variant with 280 hp.