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Munich. BMW Motorrad has closed the first half-year with a new sales record for the fourth time in succession. 80,754 motorcycles and maxi scooters were supplied to customers worldwide as of June 2016 (prev. yr.: 78,418 units). As compared to the equivalent period of the previous year, this represents an increase of 3.0%. For the … Read more

Munich – Brussels. As it celebrates its fifth anniversary, DriveNow is extending its service to Brussels. The Belgian capital is the tenth European city where the premium car sharing joint venture from BMW Group and Sixt SE will operate. Car sharing without a branch office has been allowed in Brussels since June and the service … Read more

Munich. BMW Group Classic has completed the move to its new headquarters located on a historic site. The company archive and the vehicle collection, the workshop and the customer centre together with the parts service for classic automobiles and motorcycles are now located together in an ensemble of buildings in the district of Milbertshofen in … Read more

Munich/Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Some 35,000 BMW Motorrad fans made their way to Garmisch-Partenkirchen last weekend to attend the BMW Motorrad Days – the world’s biggest BMW Motorrad meet-up. Sunny start on Friday with guests from Europe, Asia, North and South America. Sunny weather on Friday so many fans who had not arrived some days earlier enjoyed a … Read more

Munich (DE), 6th July 2016. It is another impressive number: the BMW Motorrad Race Trophy continues to grow from year to year. For 2016 no less than 129 BMW racers have registered their participation – a new record. There has been also a change in the top positions: Chilean Maximilian Scheib improved to second courtesy … Read more

Munich (DE), 4th July 2016. BMW Team RLL drivers Bill Auberlen (US) and Dirk Werner (DE), racing the number 25 BMW M6 GTLM, finished third in Sunday’s six-hour race at Watkins Glen (US) for the pair’s second podium finish of the season. Teammates John Edwards (US) and Lucas Luhr (DE) finished eighth in the number … Read more

Arles/Munich. On the occasion of the opening of this year’s Rencontres d’Arles Festival of Photography (July 4 – September 25) its long-term partner BMW and Toilet Paper, a bi-annual avantgarde picture-based publication and brand created by artist Maurizio Cattelan together with photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, announce the joint creation of a BMW i3 “Spaghetti Car.”   … Read more

Home round for ROWE Racing at the Nürburgring – BMW Motorsport Juniors complete fitness camp in Italy.   Whether in the DTM, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, or countless other championships: week after week BMW teams and drivers around the world do battle for points, victories and titles. Away from the track too, members of … Read more

Munich/Spielberg. 37 years after its premiere on the race track, the BMW M1 will once again generate a fantastic atmosphere among motor-sport fans in the warm-up for the Formula 1 World Championship race. BMW Group Classic is staging a revival with the racing cars in the Procar Series just before the race for the “Austrian Grand Prix” at … Read more

Munich – July 1, 2016. BMW Group, Intel, and Mobileye are joining forces to make self-driving vehicles and future mobility concepts become a reality. The three leaders from the automotive, technology and computer vision and machine learning industries are collaborating to bring solutions for highly and fully automated driving into series production by 2021.   … Read more