#BMW 2000 tii Touring

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BMW 2000 tii Touring | BMW Group Classic

[germancarssince1946]

1971 BMW 2000 tii Touring

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BMW 2000 Tii Touring, 1971. 

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This car will be familiar to Europeans and BMW-philes, but probably not so much to regular North American old car people - it’s a 1972 #BMW 2000 Touring; a hatchback version of the familiar BMW 2002. Shortened versions of the 1962 “Neue Klasse” sedans (the ancestors of arguably all modern BMWs), the 2002 and it’s 1600-2 predecessor were gems - good to drive, responsive, reliable, and handsome; with clean lines by Georg Bertram and Manfred Rennen; done under the eye of director Wilhelm Hofmeister. - Relatively early in the life of the 1600-2 Alex von Folkhausen, who’d developed the Neue Klasse M10 four, decided dropping the 2-liter from the 2000 sedan into the 1602 was worth trying, and was surprised to discover he had two allies in pitching it to BMW’s board - product planner Helmut Werner Bonsch and U.S. importer Max Hoffman. Thus was born the 2002, which quickly became a hit in the U.S. and solidified BMW’s reputation here (this was, after all, only a decade after Isettas). - Curiously missing from the U.S., however, were the Bauer-built cabriolet (a few trickled in) and  Targa; and the Touring hatchback. The creation of the Touring stemmed from BMW’s acquisition of Hans Glas GMBH in 1966. BMW didn’t just buy Glas, it absorbed lots of Glas��� design ideas, one of which was a 2-door wagon - the Glas 1304CL. The 1304CL was a bit awkward, BMW sales director Paul Hahnemann thought the fastback wagon treatment would look good the 1602/2002, and BMW contracted Giovanni Michelotti to adapt the look; and the Touring arrived in 1971. - At first, the car was called the Touring 2000, to separate it somewhat from the 2002. But as the resemblance was quite clear, after a year or so it became the 2002 Touring, complete with a Tii option. This is one of those early cars, owned by @kupper26 and affiliated, as the plate says, with @bmw2002faq (where you can learn lots more). - The hatchback added lots of utility, but perhaps correctly assuming Americans weren’t in love with hatchbacks (they liked MGB/GTs), the Touring never came to the USA. A little over 30,000 Tourings (including 1600s and 1800s) were made from ’71-’74. Ones you see in the U.S. now are private imports. (at Sonoma, California) https://www.instagram.com/oldmotors/p/BvXKpbCAfeS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=j7nnsv57ms8i

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1971-1972 BMW 2002/2000 Touring  Tii (de)

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medium coupe

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BMW 02 Series Touring (E6) · 1971-74

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Touring 1600 · 1971-1972 · 19 000 € Touring 1800/1802 · 1971-1974 · 21 000 € Touring 2000/2002 · 1971-1974 · 23 000 € Touring 2000/2002 tii · 1971-1974 · 27 000 €