From the early 1960s through the early 1970s, long before the German marque became a mass-luxury brand name, BMW was known for building cars that combined performance with Bavarian frugality, solid ...
The torque—of all the preconceived notions I might’ve had about the 1973 BMW 3.0 CS, big torque wasn’t one of them. I’ve always thought of old BMWs as revvers, not grunters. I assumed I’d need to get ...
The 1971 BMW 3.0 CSL did not begin life as a collector’s darling or a design statement. It was conceived as a blunt ...
Yet the taste of most BMW customers of the day would never be sated by the boxy 02. Coincidentally, BMW had a perfectly delightful inline-six engine with which to power a more substantial car. That ...