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need to know to get up to speed on the
BMW eight series
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now let's dive in in late 70s BMW was
stuck in a rut and looking for something
fresh and exciting to add to their
lineup the company had recently broken
up with famed Mercedes designer Paul
Brock you know the guy that designed all
those bad mercs from the 1960s like the
luxurious 600 and legendary 200 series
pagoda he designed the 1972 BMW turbo
concept car which was supposed to be the
BMW of the future hence the super Omega
awesome awesome Goldwing doors while
paul was a great designer BMW thought
they needed to go outside of the company
for something new they wanted something
exotic they wanted something mid-engine
they wanted something so began their
tumultuous relationship with Lamborghini
at first it seemed like a match made in
heaven the Germans would design the
mechanical aspects of the car while the
Italians would design the body and begin
the initial assembly the final product
was the m1 and it was m AZ launching to
much fanfare in 1978 but as they say the
best laid plans of mice and men often go
awry soon the relationship crumbled
because the Germans were like excuse me
there are costs and the italians were
like we didn't finish the building them
yet
wiki's whoa long story short the m1
turned out to be a disaster as the
assembly chain was fraught with problems
and it underperformed on the racetrack
as well it still looks cool and BMW
ended up scrapping it in 1981 afraid to
love again BMW told everyone they were
going to take some me time and stick to
what they know German design and
advanced engineering they were like who
needs a sweet sports car when you can
have a practical and reliable cruiser
like the e24 six Series this Coupe was a
precursor of things that come the e24
was initially designed by Carmen you
know like the Karmann Ghia before being
taken over by BMW Beamer Vice President
of Sales Bob Lutz the guy who eventually
developed cars like the Ford Sierra and
Dodge Viper wanted a powerful and
handsome executive cruiser and boy did
he get one the e24 variants like the
sporty 635 CSI made 218 her Spurs and
sent the power through a close-ratio
five-speed transmission it was the
perfect mix of performance and
sophisticated style if you rolled up in
one of these bad boys you were a baller
and in my opinion the e24 still looks
sick especially on bags with some big
old mesh wheels I got a face book
marketplace cab open right now looking
for him around this same time BMW had
started dreaming up something else
something little sporty something with a
lot of displacement something
unnecessarily complicated in all of the
very very best ways in 1984 Klaus Luth
was designing some pretty sweet BMWs
while basking in the glow of his highly
successful ether tea which came out in
1982 and working out the kinks on his
new ether t2 which had just debuted but
wasn't quite ready for market
he decided he also wanted to make a car
that was completely absurd and thus the
e30 one 850 I was
nicknamed the great eight Klaus set out
to build a v12 coupe version of the
flagship seven series using the e30 to
chassis as a basis he wanted the car to
have a drag coefficient of less than
point three all right let's put that
into perspective with some other v12
beastie boys Lamborghini Countach drag
coefficient of 0.4 - Roy testa Rossa
drag coefficient 0.36 in order to reach
his goal Klaus enlisted the help of
designer Klaus Capp pizza uh nepotism
much ke Klaus took the super long hood
of the aforementioned turbo concept and
mixed it with the styling cues of the M
ones nose to create the front of the
vehicle now with the front taken care of
he focused on eliminating other places
where dragged could occur he curbed the
front fenders like the e30 M car he gave
it recessed windshield wipers even
though the mirrors look like they are
upside down he did that on purpose to
cut down on drag he also created tight
seal windows so that glass joined the
roof seamlessly which is something that
can now be found on pretty much every
new convertible or coupe the end result
was a drag coefficient of I hope he made
it did he make it bad
tonight whoo oh my god that's even
better than he had hoped you know you
said I can do some kind of crazy I said
you really really take it home way to go
Klaus the car was so smooth that Klaus
with a/c didn't want to f it up with a B
pillar so he married the a pillar to the
C pillar and called it a day the result
was a rad silhouettes and of course a
large access point for people to hand
you large pizzas snowboards dogs
Nolan's ego the point is that it was
awesome and if you're wondering where
the seat belt attached to the car it was
through the seat itself which is pretty
creative with the body design complete
Klaus with a/c focused on making the 8
the ultimate ultimate driving machine he
used the naturally aspirated v12 engine
from the 750 i which was basically 2m 20
inline 6 engines turned to 60 degrees
and fused together to cut down on weight
the engine block was illuminating him to
go along with the already aluminum heads
5 liter engines was good for about 300
her Spurs and 332 pound-feet of torque
the massive engine and be pillarless
unibody chassis weighed a ton
actually it weighed like one and a half
tons in order to make the beast handled
nimbly Klaus with a/c went a little
counterintuitive and added more weight
in the form of cutting-edge technology
this car assured in speed sensitive
power steering and steering linked rear
suspension the first iteration was this
thing called active rear axle kinematics
or act which is a computer-controlled
electro hydraulic four-wheel steering
system the active rear axle kinematics
system improves lateral stability using
a multi-link rear axle known as the
integral rear axle the car was able to
turn the back wheels which improved
corene five years and nine hundred
million dollars later the car was
finally ready to make it to the but at
the Frankfurt Auto Show in September of
89 to say it was well received would be
an understatement within eight days of
the Frankfurt Show BMW had received five
thousand orders of the $100,000 car by
the summer of 1990 it was reported that
the entire production of about 11,000
units a year had been sold out until
1993 some people were prepared to spend
twice the list price to avoid the
waiting list with so much initial
success the peeps at motorsport division
aka em immediately set to creating some
new trim levels in 92 they came out with
the entry-level 840 i which was powered
by a v8 and had just about as much Hurst
burn but less torque than the 850 I in
1993 after all those backorder suckas
had picked up their basic 850 eyes BMW
unveiled an improved version known as
the 840 and 850 CI as well as the
superformance version the 850 CSI which
stands for crime scene investigation
yeah
the CSIs new m70 v12 engine was 5.6
liters and cranked out 381 hurst purrs
the new engine was so impressive that
McLaren borrowed it to power their new
supercar the f1 you ever heard of it you
know Carly held top speed record for
frigging ever if you grew up in the 90s
this was the car which is probably why
they go for about 20 million dollars at
auction Mr Bean wrecked won the CSI was
the first car to have BMWs now standard
dynamic Stability control instead of big
complicated AK rear steer system we were
talking about earlier DSC relied on
sensors and other electronics to apply
the brakes and engine power as needed to
create active steering to better keep
the car under control the 850 CSI was a
technologically advanced piece of
automotive art literally famed painter
David Hockney was commissioned to make
it the 14th BMW art car which he did by
painting his interpretation of the car
from the inside out he even put a veiner
dog in the backseat but things weren't
all rainbows and later hosen for the 8th
series this was the first BMW entirely
designed using CAD or computer-aided
design which meant that it was able to
work on because everything was so
tightly and intricately built that even
minor repairs and maintenance were a
nightmare and cost a frickin fortune
when combined with a global oil shortage
yes we mentioned it it made it into this
episode it had a high initial price tag
and advancements by competing
manufacturers people stopped buying the
big grand touring car and by 1999 the
eight series was dead but hey it's the
most successful German v12 car ever made
so throughout the 2000s remake culture
was in full swing the world had run out
of ideas so everyone was digging up the
past and looking to make a buckle but
not every remake was bad with
traditional sedans and coupes sales
slumping because buyers prefer
TVs and CBS 20:19 seemed like the
perfect time for BMW to drop a remake of
their own 40 500-pound $85,000 coupe of
a remake because why not it was official
the eight series was coming back but not
with the v12 know was something better
because now it's got big old turbo
babies on it BMW gave the new car the 8
Series moniker and the g15 model
designation like all new BMWs including
Supra the 8 series gets BMWs carbon core
technology which integrates a carbon
fiber into the chassis this keeps the
weight down while increasing rigidity
which leads to better handling the
suspension is double wishbone Ranch
Dressing in the front and multi jack
links beef jerky in the rear the g15 can
be had in three basic configurations
there's the base 840 which comes with a
3 liter turbocharged straight-6 good for
335 her spurs and 369 pounds Petersburg
then there's the M 850 which comes with
a 4.4 liter twin-turbo v8 good for 523
Herzberg and then there's the mack daddy
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m8 which uses a slightly reconfigured
version of the m8 50s engine to punch
out 600 per person almost as much turn
and all trim levels come with an 8-speed
auto transmission and are available with
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