To date, only two production BMWs have ever been graced with a CSL badge: the 3.0 and the E46 M3. However, BMW M has unveiled a third CSL, this time based on the M4, to celebrate the motorsport division's 50th birthday.
In the spirit of the name, th…
How does BMW compute 50 years?
50 years of CSL maybe?
In reply to buzzboy :
50 years of BMW M. Thank you for catching that.
My brush with a CSL... My dad bought this car from a customer of his German car repair business around ‘77 or so. This customer had several grocery stores, and bought a tractor-trailer rig at a sheriff’s auction, and this car was inside. My dad bought it for $2,500. Someone had blown the motor and crashed it in a test session at Road Atlanta.
Even “at cost”, the total to just get the parts was getting around $15k, so my dad sold it to Alf Gebhardt, who was running one in IMSA and T/A at the time. Last I heard (20 years ago), it was being restored at Black Forest Imports in England for a well known BMW enthusiast.
Ewwww.
Sadface emoji.
I may not be pretty but do some things well.
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