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• Mosport Race Report - BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team
  Comments: 0 Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:00 am
  

  Woodcliff Lake, N.J. – August 29, 2010…Bill Auberlen and Tommy Milner drove the No. 92 M3 GT to a third-place GT class finish in today’s Grand Prix of Mosport. The race was red-flagged with 29 minutes remaining following a crash by a GTC car requiring extensive repairs to the track-side barriers. The eighth-consecutive podium finish by the BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team this season keeps BMW firmly in the hunt for the Manufacturer’s championship, only dropping one point from the lead. The title will be decided at the season finale, Petit Le Mans, on October 2. Joey Hand and Dirk Müller were forced to retire the No. 90 M3 GT following a collision by Müller on lap 48, just after one hour of the race was complete. Download the entire newsletter.

  
  
  Author: (BMW of North America)
  Source: http://www.bmwusa.com/standard/content/experience/newsfeed/post/2010/08/30/Mosport-Race-Report-BMW-Rahal-Letterman-Racing-Team.aspx
  
  
• INSIDETRACK September 2010 BMW CERTIFIED PRE-OWNED: IT’S SMA
  Comments: 0 Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:00 am
  

  CERTIFIED PRE-OWNED: AN EXHILARATINGLY SAVVY IDEA There are many reasons for getting another vehicle. Your child is college-bound – or about to enter the working world. Perhaps you need something larger with room for a baby seat. Or you’ve earned that “fun car.” Whatever the reason, it’s always a good time to consider a Certified Pre-Owned BMW. Every CPO BMW is a recent model with less than 60,000 miles. In order to be Certified, it is first thoroughly inspected by factory-trained BMW technicians, ensuring it meets the highest quality and performance standards. If anything needs to be fixed, it is. In fact, many CPO BMW models look and feel so good, you’ll swear they’re new. Every CPO BMW is covered by the Certified Pre-Owned BMW Warranty, one ofthe industry’s best,1 and comes with two more years of unlimited-mileage BMW Roadside Assistance.2 It’s also backed by a nationwide network of BMW centers. Download the entire newsletter.

  
  
  Author: (BMW of North America)
  Source: http://www.bmwusa.com/standard/content/experience/newsfeed/post/2010/08/27/INSIDETRACK-September-2010-BMW-CERTIFIED-PRE-OWNED-ITe28099S-SMART-ON-WHEELS.aspx
  
  
• Jim O’Donnell, President of BMW of North America, to Host Te
  Comments: 0 Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:00 am
  

  Jim O’Donnell, President of BMW of North America, to Host Teen Driving School to Kick Off the 2010 BMW Championship in Chicago Group 1 Automotive partners with BMW sponsoring fundraiser for the Evans Scholars Foundation Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana BMW Centers to contribute $3 for every mile driven by participating teens BMW to launch its “DRIVE IT HOME – DON’T TXT & DRIVE” campaign Woodcliff Lake, NJ – August 30, 2010… Today BMW announced Jim O’Donnell, President of BMW of North America, LLC, will host a special Teen Driving School on September 7, 2010 at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois to kick off the 2010 BMW Championship. The tournament features 70 of the world’s top professional golfers competing in the third leg of the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. Group 1 Automotive, owner of 15 BMW and MINI dealerships nationwide, is partnering with BMW to sponsor the fundraiser for the Evans Scholars Foundation, which provides full university tuition and housing grants to deserving young caddies. Like the BMW Championship, all proceeds from the Teen Driving School will be donated to the Evans Scholars Foundation. The Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana BMW Centers will contribute $3 for every mile driven by participating teens during the event. Evans Scholars and Chicago area teens will participate in Teen Driving School – BMW’s road safety program designed to help young people learn how to be safer, more informed drivers. A PGA TOUR player will also attend the driving event, during which BMW will launch its “DRIVE IT HOME – DON’T TXT & DRIVE” campaign to build awareness that texting while driving is one of the most dangerous actions a person can do behind the wheel. Download the entire newsletter.

  
  
  Author: (BMW of North America)
  Source: http://www.bmwusa.com/standard/content/experience/newsfeed/post/2010/08/30/Jim-Oe28099Donnell-President-of-BMW-of-North-America-to-Host-Teen-Driving-School.aspx
  
  
• BMW begins production of the new BMW X3 at Spartanburg plant
  Comments: 0 Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:58 pm
  

  Press Release: BMW Manufacturing announced today that production of the new BMW X3 Sports Activity Vehicle got underway at the South Carolina plant.

  In early 2008, BMW Group announced that it would invest $750 million in the South Carolina plant, its largest investment in South Carolina to date. This commitment paved the way for construction of a new Assembly Hall built exclusively to produce the BMW X3 along with a significant expansion to the existing Paint Shop. This 1.5 million square foot addition increases the plant’s total footprint to over 4.0 million square feet.

  “The launch of the new X3 will mark a historic moment for this plant. I am confident that the BMW X3 is once again going to make our plant a leader in the Sports Activity segment,” stated Josef Kerscher, President, BMW Manufacturing Co. in Spartanburg.

  

  Within the last 7 years, the first-generation BMW X3 has been an extraordinary success story for the BMW Group. The BMW X3 began production in 2004. After production of over 600,000 units, the last vehicle of the first model generation, a Vermilion red metallic BMW X3 xDrive35d, came off the line in Austria yesterday.

  With the model change, production of the X3 was relocated to the South Carolina plant based on existing manufacturing proficiency of the BMW X5 and X6 models. The US plant has become the expertise center for the BMW X Models. The addition of the third model to the plant’s vehicle mix has created several hundred new jobs and increased BMW’s total investment in South Carolina to $4.6 billion since 1992.

  

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  Author: Horatiu B.
  Source: http://www.bmwblog.com/2010/09/02/bmw-begins-production-of-the-new-bmw-x3-at-spartanburg-plant/
  
  
• Car Magazine reviews the BMW M3 Competition Package 2010
  Comments: 0 Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:58 pm
  

  The Competition Package for E92 M3 was introduced at the beginning of this year as an option, aiming at offering the owners of M3 Coupe a feeling closer to the CSL model through a set of performance-oriented enhancements included in the pack.

  Along with visual improvements which include modified rear lights with glass covers in a homogeneous red color, the Competition Package further enhances the highly responsive chassis by installing a 10mm lower suspension and 19” wheels with greater offset for a wider track. Combined with remapped Electronic Damping Control and Dynamic Stability Control systems, the M3 with Competition Package is the best handling production M car ever built.

  UK journalists continue to review the Competition package, and this time Car Magazine offers us a thorough analysis of the pack. The final evaluation is extremely positive, the car scoring maximum points in Handling, Performance and Feelgood Factor, among others.

  

  And when you get on and enjoy the engine when it’s running…

  You’ll experience one of the best cars on sale today, and one of the world’s great engines. Once you’ve let it warm through of course – set off in a cold M3 and you’ll have to wait for the oil temperature needle to swing towards 100deg and the adjustable red zone on the rev counter to head towards 8000rpm before you feel comfortable giving it full beans. But when everything is warm there’s a crisp rasp to accompany the slightest twitch of your right foot, and a completely addictive V8 roar when you head for the red line. It’s no deep-chested muscle car, but something much more highly strung, a little delicate but nonetheless brilliant. And when you’re homing in on 8300rpm, watching the shift lights flickering on, you’ll think there’s no better place you could possibly be.

  The Competition Package itself is a £3315 option (), and because it includes a set of 19-inch wheels and the adjustable dampers (ordinarily £1265 and £1295, and a must-have for most M3 drivers) BMW reckons it’s not only good value but will be taken up by 60% of customers. The bonus is that the bigger wheels are clearly inspired by the E46 CSL – they’re very tasty. A 10mm suspension drop, lifted from last year’s M3 Edition, and a special M mode for the DSC system complete the package. And does it make a difference? Unfortunately we didn’t have a track to play on, but the reality is this latest M3 feels better than ever, with a sharp turn-in, strong resistance to understeer, and the ability to let you schlep along with the hoi polloi one moment, and act like a complete hooligan the next. Just make sure you leave the dampers in their regular setting – anything overtly sporting is just too stiff for the UK.

  Verdict

  The 4.0-litre V8 engine alone is enough to award the M3 five stars, but that the fact it steers brilliantly, goes bloody fast, looks great, and now does its bit for the environment too, makes it better than ever, and one amazing motor car. We love it. We want one.

  Full article at Car Magazine

  
  

  

  
  
  Author: Gabriela
  Source: http://www.bmwblog.com/2010/09/02/car-magazine-reviews-the-bmw-m3-competition-package-2010/
  
  
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