BMW Celebrates DTM Dominance with New M3 DTM Champion Limited Edition

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After associate 18-year absence, BMW came to the German phaeton Championship, i.e. the DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) this year to fight down archrivals Mercedes-Benz and Audi.The obvious alternative for the model its racer would be based mostly upon was the M3 automobile. DTM organizers had modified the foundations and enforced  several restrictions so as to make sure shut competition – therefore all detail was crucial within the M3’s battle against the A5 automobile and also the C-Class automobile.
Even though it fielded 3 groups and 6 cars, compared to its rivals’ four groups and eight cars, Bruno Sprengler won 5 out of the season’s ten races and took the driver’s championship, whereas BMW Team Schnitzer won the team’s title and also the Munich-based company was awarded the manufacturer’s championship.
In honor of this triple success, BMW M GmbH launched the M3 DTM Champion Edition. just like the champion’s automobile, its bodywork sports a Frozen Black aluminous color, the sole one obtainable for the fifty four cars which will be factory-made, at the side of matt black alloys.
It additionally options a carbon fiber roof and boot lid, that area unit adorned with the M stripe, carbon fiber flaps and stretcher wing, a BMW M brand to the rear of the front wheel arches and decals on the rear windows celebrating Sprengler’s and BMW’s triumph.
In the cabin, the sills replicate the Canadian driver’s helmet style and his signature, at the side of the car’s serial variety, and are brocaded within the dashboard carbon fiber trim. The handwheel is roofed in Alcantara and, aside from carbon components, there’s a black “Novillo” animal skin trim with “Palladium Silver” different components.
Owners of this edition also will get the Competition package, M Drive and also the M Driver’s package, whereas the sole obtainable transmission is that the seven-speed M DCT Drivelogic dual-clutch semi-auto. They won’t have to be compelled to “suffer” the drawbacks of a stripped-out race reproduction, though, as options like heated seats, park distance management and also the skilled navigation system can build everyday driving snug.
The BMW M3 DTM Champion Edition are going to be obtainable from Feb 2013 in choose markets with its value in Deutschland beginning at €99,000 (US$130,000) together with VAT (there’s no word on U.S. handiness or evaluation yet).
Each of the fifty four homeowners also will have the possibility to attend the BMW M Fascination Nordschleife coaching course at Nürburgring beneath the eye of Sprengler himself.

By Saint Andrew Tsaousis

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