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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New BMW 4-Series Coupe Concept Photos Leak on the Web; Think it's aLooker?

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Official imaging of the all-new and for the foremost half, production prepared BMW idea 4-Serieswas leaked onto the net these days, many weeks prior the car's public presentation at the 2013 Motown Motor Show.The idea study confirms the various language BMW has chosen for the auto, convertible and therefore the grannie auto sports sedan variants of the F30 generation 3-Series.
So however shut is that the study to the assembly model that may follow next year? Well, BMW features a tradition of gently masking coming models and naming them ideas. All you've got to try and do is consider the 2010 idea 6-Series to envision that the idea 4-Series is ninety nine p.c prepared.
The only parts we have a tendency to see ever-changing area unit the lamp graphics, the rear bumper style and therefore the full animal skin treatment with accent handicraft for the inside that shares a similar dashboard with the 3-Series Sedan and road models.
The sleek wanting auto with the aggressive and upright connective tissue will share its underpinnings with the 3-Series, therefore expect the same mixture of turbocharged four-and six-cylinder gas and four-cylinder diesel engines (the latter in choose regions), joined to 6sp manual and 8sp automatic transmissions, with AWD to be offered as associate possibility.
More to come back once BMW formally comes out with the release.

Story References: BMW via Worldcarfans via Autowp
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Paris Motor Show: BMW 335i Sedan with M Performance Accessories

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Aside from commerce cars, BMW conjointly needs a bit of the aftermarket industry's pie, and for this reason, it's perpetually adding new merchandise to its freshly fashioned M Performance sub-brand.The 2012 Paris Motor Show sees the terribly initial presentation of various product from this program designed specifically for the new 3-Series that square measure incontestible on a 335i sedan.
The comprehensive vary of accessories includes each cosmetic upgrades for the outside and interior, and components that improve engine performance and handling.
The instrumentation options of the foremost powerful gasolene engine variant of the 3-Series sedan (at least till the presentation of the M3) that's on show in Paris, embody 20-inch M Performance light-weight alloy wheels, M Performance brake, M Performance suspension and M Performance mechanics package supported the M Sports package.
Added elements embody a rear spoiler, exterior mirror caps in carbon and a grating in high-gloss black, all of that square measure sourced from the BMW M Performance accessories program.
Inside, you'll realize a BMW M Performance handwheel with Race show, ornamental strips in Alcantara with open-pore carbon, M Performance chrome steel pedals and a gearstick lever knob and handbrake handle with Alcantara gaiter.
BMW conjointly offers Associate in Nursing M Performance silencer system for the 335i, together with a replacement engine kit for the 320d diesel that lifts output from one81Hp (184PS) and 379Nm (280 lb-ft) to 197Hp (200PS) and 420Nm (310 lb-ft) severally cutting the 0-100km/h (62mph) sprint time by regarding 1 second.

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