Magazin
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Showing colour: the series paint finishes of the BMW E21
From Golf and Rubinrot to Polaris and Opalgrün – colour programmes, model updates, Alpina peculiarities and their significance for today’s collector market.
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Dry ice in the engine bay: how a 325iX Touring loses its factory wax
Four decades of wax, oil and road grime — and how dry ice removes them without taking cables, seals and stickers along with it. A morning in Berlin-Buch with our E30 325iX Touring.
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M3 Touring: The Estate That Never Existed in the DTM
An E30 Touring in Schnitzer-Warsteiner livery with start number 30: wide steel wings, a six-cylinder from the E46 330Ci — and a body that would never have been allowed to start in Group A.
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Hellrot: Seven Years with My BMW 850CSi
In 2003, Rune was looking for a BMW E31 with special equipment 481. The search took him via Offenbach and Aachen to St. Gallen — to a bright red 850CSi that he kept for seven years.
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From Pressure Sensor to Piezo Injector: BMW’s Fuel Injection Systems Across the E Model Lines
How BMW developed fuel injection in four-, six-, eight- and twelve-cylinder engines – and which systems are truly considered mature today.
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Born for the racetrack: the BMW M1 and the Procar series
How a delayed homologation project became the first standalone BMW M, a spectacular racing series and an icon.
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Twice factory-new: what a blue Sport Evolution reveals about originality
Ordered in Black II, dropped from a transporter, rebuilt on a brand-new bodyshell — and delivered to the customer in Mauritius Blue.
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White and blue in the Green Hell: the 53rd Oldtimer-Grand-Prix at the Nürburgring
The 53rd BELMOT Oldtimer-Grand-Prix put the BMW M3 centre stage for its 40th birthday — 43,000 spectators, two M1 one-two finishes, and a reunion between Uwe Alzen and his 2010 24h-winning car.
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Preserving the value of classic BMWs: what the market is really paying in 2026
The market is cooling — and a 325i Baur has quadrupled in five years. 16 BMW models with documented market values, and what value genuinely depends on.
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Mint Condition: The E30 Meeting in Witzenhausen
At the second E30 MEETING INTERNATIONAL, a campsite on the Werra turned into the meeting point for a European community — with a trade fair mile, tech talks and a drive through the Werra valley.
