#bmw /5

[thestobingirlie]

Forever in our hearts

[leslie057]

sometimes true love is just the apocalyptic situationship between a candy stripe girl and her emo ex husband

[ledepassionne]

BMW R 75/5 « jubilee » édition (with chromed tank plates and side panels)

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

BMW i5 Flow NOSTOKANA, 2024. The latest BMW Art Car combines colour-change technology developed by BMW with the artistic language of South African Ndebele artist Esther Mahlangu. In 1991, Mahlangu designed the 12th BMW Art Car, based on an E34 series BMW 525i – becoming the first woman and first African artist to do so. In the BMW i5 Flow NOSTOKANA, which is named after Mahlangu’s first son, sections of film that can be electronically animated are applied, with two strips each across the roof, bonnet and rear section, as well as the vehicle’s sides. The new car has been presented at the Frieze Los Angeles art fair

[coloursteelsexappeal]

1989 Alpina B10 BiTurbo

[demoralised]

BMW E21 Group 5 replica

[pixelzfix]

Sometimes I think about how when seb was at bmw sauber he was gifted a baby bottle and a bib ( also a pacifier I think I don’t remember exactly) that said “a star is born” and how poetic that is. Well it is to me at least

[packardbaker]

1970 BMW 2500, in Tundra Green Metallic. The E3 was the predecessor to the current 5 series, and powered by the legendary 2.5L inline six which would remain in production from 1968 to 1994.

[caradsfromthepast]

1992 BMW 5 Series (E34) advertisement

[mediocreinternetuser]

topanga lawrence + angela moore – boy meets world (1993)

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Just so unearned. I was like, I don't, I I want this to be the scene. Like I want Shawn to come back and recognize the importance of Feeny in his life. And like all of that is a great value. It's just, we didn't earn it. Like it's that the episode is just so lazy up until now....Actually would make the most sense is if Shawn ends up in a poetry class. Right? And, and the idea that he gets really excited about is like anything can be poetry, which is true. Right? Like there's experimental poetry. And so like, Shawn starts, you know, he starts off jokingly making bad poems, but they work because the poetry, poetry teacher's really into it. And then that would make sense with Shawn later becoming a poet. Or like, you know, it also just makes, I don't know, like the fact that they chose philosophy and then didn't develop it enough to make it sing. Like it's really frustrating. -Rider

[diabolus1exmachina]

BMW M1 Turbo (the extraordinary case of the BMW M1 with 1000 hp)

Ignore the livery. Or don’t ignore it. Like with every other Jägermeister racing car, it might be hard to actually walk past this orange beast without giving the standout paint job at least one glance. It was designed to attract attention, just how Günter Mast — the man that gave his OK to race cars with the famous stag on the bonnet — intended. The truth of the matter is, however, that this particular car’s convoluted history is as complicated as the story of the BMW M1 itself. Therefore this car is not what it seems to be, as the orange Jägermeister livery stems from the imagination of the man that rebuilt the car, the legendary M1 whisperer Fritz Wagner. And if you ask anyone at Jägermeister headquarters about the car, they will potentially reply with a polite letter from their legal department. To paraphrase Samuel Beckett: there’s nothing funnier than tragedy. And so, the story of the BMW M1 could be perceived as one of the automotive world’s funniest. The car was originally designed with the ambition to create the greatest, mid-engined racing car of all time. One that would beat Porsche’s dominating 935 in the all-important Group 5. A masterpiece made of speed and German reliability which, in reality, became a car that had to be reverse engineered to be sold for the road. All because of changes in racing rules and homologation, which stipulated how many cars had to be produced before a particular model was allowed to hit the track. The production number of 400 cars — which seems so minuscule by today’s standards — turned out to be the first problem on a long list of unfolding disasters.

In essence, the life of this beautiful, light, well-made machine that had been designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, who reworked Paul Bracq’s original prototype, was plagued by bad luck and bad decisions. The fact that Lamborghini — who were supposed to produce it at their factory — went bust because of copyright fraud and embezzlement of funds didn’t help. However, it was the rushed solution to disperse production all over Europe that was the final nail in the coffin. Marchese built the car's tube frame, TIR molded the fiberglass, Italdesign mated the two and installed the interior, then the M1 was shipped from Italy to Stuttgart, where Baur would in­stall the BMW hardware, after which in Munich BMW Motor­sports would do the final touches and quality control. It made the M1 almost a quarter more expensive than any equivalent Ferrari or Lambo sold at the time. Case closed.

British generals in the second world war would often joke that Germans were not very good when it came to Plan B. This might be true. In the end, even if BMW’s head of Motorsport Jochen Neerpasch, the brilliant man that he is, thought of a way to market the M1 with the Procar series, in which F1 drivers like Niki Lauda, Clay Regazzoni, and Nelson Piquet would race the cars against privateers, as a prelude to the weekend's Formula 1 race, too few examples were made for the car to ever officially leave Group 4 as was originally intended. Later on, those teams who managed to finally race in Group 5, years after BMW abandoned the programme in order to enter to F1, found the M1 simply uncompetitive. Even the twin-turbocharged models built by Schnitzer, which developed 800 hp and more from their straight six engines, were plagued by problems. his finally brings us to this particular, rather unusual example. It was allegedly built for the famous Walter Brun racing team, who later on won the Group C World Championship with a Jägermeister-liveried Porsche 956. Brun’s friendship with Paul Rosche, the man who turbocharged the BMW 2002, gave rise to the idea of installing the M88 turbo engine originally planned for the March Group-5 car into a modified M1 Procar chassis wrapped into Group 5 bodywork. However, the car was never raced. Why? Even at BMW no one knows. Particularly good news considering that back in the day, when this 1090 kg machine was put on a dyno, it put out 1000 hp and 930 NM of Torque. A reading obtained just before the machine broke while the car apparently still wanted to keep going. Now in the hands of a new owner who intends to race it regularly, it will have plenty of opportunity to shine. And so a new chapter unfolds…

[tiniigi]

[welcominthehell]

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[coloursteelsexappeal]

M5

[demoralised]

Group 5-inspired BMW E21