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BMW M2 Liberty Walk
A customized gray BMW sports car with a sleek design, parked against a wall with red paint splatter and 'Liberty Walk' text.
BMW M2 - Liberty Walk - Nardo Grey
A gray BMW with a Liberty Walk body kit, featuring a sleek and modern design, parked in an industrial setting.
#RIPNatenom 
Day 19: I got the wagon up in the air for the first time! And discovered the difference between a lifetime California car (the 530i) and one that's spent good chunks of its life in places like Massachusetts and Seattle (the wagon).
Was planning to remove the exhaust, but couldn't even get started; the four nuts that attach the exhaust to the manifold studs are super rusty. One broke off, which is fine, but the others wouldn't budge. #WeirdCarMastodon #WrenchEveryDay #DIY #BMW #EngineSwap #E39
#BMW EV drivers are really failing to represent the driving style typically associated with the brand. Shameful.
Day 18: I have a rebuilt, reassembled ZF5HP19 transmission! (Second ZF I've had my nose in this week—does that qualify me for some kind of certification?)
I did use the tool my dad and I made, but not the way I expected to; I used them to support all of the stacked assemblies while I lifted the transmission case up and over them. Hey, it was kind of dumb, but it worked! Next up: prepping the wagon for engine/trans removal. #WeirdCarMastodon #WrenchEveryDay #DIY #BMW #ZF #TransmissionRebuild
When BMW walked away from the rump MG Rover in 2000, it sold Land Rover to Ford and kept the new Mini and mid-range R30 project for itself. That left MG Rover without a replacement for the 25 and 45. One interim solution was to offer sporty MG versions of the 25 and 45 (here the 25-based MG ZR), a move that was surprisingly effective in giving those cars fresh appeal at little cost. Snapped at the NEC Classic Car Show, 2023.
Yesterday Rover R30, today BMW E87. What’s the link? Well the first-generation 1-Series certainly isn’t just an R30 with a BMW badge - it’s rear-wheel drive rather than FWD and it shares a lot with the E90 3-Series. But there is a persistent industry rumour that much of E87 from the windscreen backwards is borrowed from the unrealised R30. As far as I know this has never been confirmed but does seem at least plausible to me. Local car park photo.
It should have been out on the road. Instead, it lives in a glass case in a museum - the British Motor Museum, to be precise. This is R30. More specifically, it’s a 1/4 scale model of an early iteration of the car that was meant to replace Rover’s 25 and 45. Apparently a production-ready prototype existed by 2000 but after BMW abandoned MG Rover, the R30 never saw the light of day. That may not quite be the end of the story, though. More tomorrow…
1967 U.K. Neue Klasse #BMW ad. I'll post an enlargement of the accompanying text below the main image.
By 1999, Rover had spent five years under BMW ownership, and the first major new product to result from the German parent’s investment arrived in the form of the Rover 75. The aging 200 and 400 were given 75-style facelifts and renamed the 25 and 45. But it was widely known that these models from Rover’s Honda era were to be replaced by a new BMW-funded model family, R30. More on that tomorrow. Pic taken (Rover 25): Great British Car Journey, 2025
+++ EIL - Porsche Gewinn sinkt um 30% +++
+++ EIL - VW Gewinn sinkt um 30% +++
+++ EIL - BMW Gewinn sinkt um 30% +++
„Die Deutsche Automobilindustrie hat erkannt, dass sie Jahrelang an der falschen Technologie festgehalten haben und setzen jetzt komplett auf…“
…ach nein, sorry, so ist’s richtig:
„Die Deutsche Automobilindustrie möchte jetzt mit Steuergeldern gerettet werden.“
BREAKING #Deutschland geht unter!!11!
#BMW hat magersüchtige 7,7 Mrd Gewinn gemacht, noch dazu nach Steuern!!1!
Wir fordern sofortige Sonderabgaben vom Bürgergeld zur Rettung der Aktionäre!!1!
Streichung von allen katholischen Feiertagen!!11UhrElf!
Beide Kanzler müssen SOFORT einen evil looking SUV kaufen vor dem Kanzleramt!!
Today, another couple of examples of Rover’s highly successful R8 range. While yesterday’s hatchback versions were badged as the 200 series, the handsome four-door saloon (white car) and Tourer estate (grey car) were badged as 400s. The system of model naming was the same as BMW’s, so the ‘420’ badge on the estate signifies a 400-series car with a 2-litre engine - although this was before BMW took over Rover. Pics taken: NEC Classic Car Show, 2024.
