Nürburgring (DE), 2nd April 2016. The 2016 endurance racing season has begun at the Nürburgring Nordschleife (DE), where the BMW M6 GT3 successfully completed its first race kilometres in the “Green Hell”. The ROWE Racing, Schubert Motorsport and Walkenhorst Motorsport teams used the season opener in the VLN Endurance Championship as a test under race … Read more
Press release 31 March 2016 MINI starts title defence of FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup with six MINI ALL4 Racing lined up for Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge. Round 2 of the 2016 FIA Cross Country World Cup: MINI ALL4 Racing crews prepared for shifting sands and the extreme heat of Abu Dhabi. … Read more
Munich. All motorcyclist adventurers are familiar with the challenges: a slip-up out in the bush causes a technical failure – the bike is out of action, the nearest garage is hundreds of miles away and there’s no phone signal. Normally this would mean that the long-planned motorcycle adventure was over. In view of the constantly … Read more
Munich. With the new equipment option “Scissor Doors”, the British brand is now making it easier for customers to squeeze their MINI into even the tightest of parking spaces. Initially only available for MINI 3 door, MINI Paceman and the new MINI Convertible, this option will also be available for MINI 5 door, the 6-door MINI … Read more
Munich/San Francisco. On 31 March 2016, BMW Connected North America for iOS is being presented at the Microsoft BUILD conference in San Francisco, and at the same time is being made available to download exclusively for BMW Connected Drive users in the USA. BMW Connected North America opens up a highly personalised world of intelligently … Read more
Munich (DE), 30th March 2016. Among the many offers from BMW Motorrad Motorsport’s successful international customer sport programme are intensive training courses for riders, team technicians and BMW dealers around the world. These workshops enable the customers to further exploit the full potential of their BMW S 1000 RR race machines, while, at the same … Read more
London. The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev, will perform an all-Tchaikovsky programme in London’s Trafalgar Square on Sunday 22 May, the fifth concert in the Orchestra’s annual BMW LSO Open Air Classics series, free and open to all. Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and Symphony No 4 will be performed as well as an arrangement … Read more
Munich. The finalists for the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2016 were chosen – incidentally, both ensembles qualified for this year’s finale of the competition to be held on May 7 are female-led. The American-Swiss ensemble Stucky-Doran-Studer-Tacuma with their “Play Hendrix!” programme and the American-Danish group of singer Indra Rios-Moore were able to convince the jury. … Read more
Munich (DE), 30th March 2016. Wheels are turning again in France: last Easter weekend, Le Mans (FR) hosted the curtain raiser of the 2016 French Superbike Championship (FSBK) and the French European Bikes Championship (FR EU). In both series, the BMW Motorrad Motorsport racers enjoyed success with their BMW S 1000 RRs. However, the teams … Read more
New York/Munich, 30 March 2016 — Ten initiatives have been named finalists by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group for the Intercultural Innovation Award. The selection process was highly competitive, with close to 1000 applications received from 120 countries. The projects selected come from all over the world, representing countries … Read more