BMW 8 SERIES - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed

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Now let's delve into the late '70s. BMW was stuck in a rut and looking for something new and exciting to add to its lineup. The company had recently broken up with famed Mercedes designer Paul Brock, you

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the guy. who designed all those bad mercenaries of the 1960s, like the luxurious 600 and the legendary 200

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pagoda, designed the 1972 BMW turbo concept car that was supposed to be the BMW of the future, hence the incredible Goldwing doors super Omega, while Paul was a great designer. BMW thought they

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ed to go outside the company in search of something new, they wanted something exotic, they wanted something mid-engined, they wanted something so they started their tumultuous relationship with Lamborghini at first it seemed like a perfect match, the Germans would design the mechanical aspects. of the car while the Italians designed the body and began initial assembly, the final product was the m1 and it was the m AZ that was launched to much fanfare in 1978, but as they say, the best laid plans of mice and men often turn out bad soon, the relationship collapsed because the Germans said, "Sorry, there are costs" and the Italians said we hadn't finished building them yet.

In short, the m1 turned out to be a disaster as the assembly line was plagued with problems and underperformed. The race track looks great too and BMW ended up scrapping it in 1981, afraid to love it again. BMW told everyone they would take a little time and stick to what they know. German design and advanced engineering. They said: Who needs a sweet sport? car when you can have a practical and reliable cruiser like the Series Six e24, this Coupé was a precursor of what is to come. The e24 was initially designed by Carmen, known as the Karmann Ghia, before being acquired by BMW Beamer Sales Vice President Bob Lutz. the guy who eventually developed cars like the Ford Sierra and the Dodge Viper wanted a powerful and attractive executive cruiser and, boy, he got one of the e24 variants like the sporty 635 CSI, built 218 of his Spurs, and sent the power through a ratio closed five-

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Transmission was the perfect combination of performance and sophisticated style if you got into one of these bad boys you were a gamer and in my opinion the e24 still looks sick especially bagged with some big old mesh wheels. I got a booth from the face book market. open at this time looking for it at this same time BMW had started dreaming of something else, something a little sporty, something with a lot of displacement, something unnecessarily complicated in all the best ways in 1984, Klaus Luth was designing some pretty sweet BMWs while enjoying the brilliance of his successful ether t2 that came out in 1982 and solving the problems of his new ether t2 that had just debuted but was not yet ready to hit the market, he decided that he also wanted to make a car that was completely absurd and therefore Therefore, the e30 one 850 I was nicknamed the big eight Klaus set out to build a v12 coupe version of the seven series flagship using the e30 as a chassis as a base.

He wanted the car to have a drag coefficient of less than point three. that in perspective with other beast boys v12 Lamborghini Countach drag coefficient of 0.4 - Roy testa Rossa drag coefficient of 0.36 to achieve his goal Klaus had the help of designer Klaus Capp pizza uh nepotism a lot ke Klaus took the super long hood of the aforementioned previously turbo concept and mixed it with styling cues from the M's nose to create the front of the vehicle, now with a neat front end. He focused on eliminating other places where carryovers could occur. He braked the front fenders like the e30 M car he gave her.

He pushed windshield wipers even though the mirrors appear to be upside down. He did it on purpose to reduce resistance. He also created airtight seal windows so the glass would bond to the roof seamlessly, something that can now be found in almost all new ones. convertible or coupe the end result was a drag coefficient I hope he did it, he did it wrong tonight, oh my god, that's even better than I expected, you know, you said I can do some kind of crazy thing, I said, really really take Let's go home, Klaus, the car was so soft that air-conditioned Klaus didn't want to equip it with a B-pillar, so he joined the A-pillar to the C-pillar and called it a day.

The result was radical silhouettes. and of course a great hotspot for people to deliver you pizzas big snowboards dogs Nolan's ego the point is that it was amazing and if you're wondering where the seat belt was attached to the car, through the seat itself, which is quite creative with The body design was completed by Klaus with air conditioning focused on making the 8 the best driving machine. He used the naturally aspirated v12 engine from the 750 i, which was basically 2m, 20 inline 6s rotated at 60 degrees and fused together to reduce weight. the engine block lit it up to go along with the aluminum heads, the 5 liter engines were good for around 300 spurs and 332 lb-ft of torque, the huge engine and pillarless unibody chassis weighed a ton, actually It weighed about one and a half. tons to be able to handle the beast with agility.

Klaus with air conditioning was a bit counterintuitive and added more weight in the form of cutting-edge technology. This car ensured

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-sensitive power steering and a steering-linked rear suspension. The first iteration was called that. Active rear axle kinematics or Act, which is a computer-controlled electro-hydraulic four-wheel steering system. The active rear axle kinematic system improves lateral stability using a multi-link rear axle known as an integral rear axle. The car was able to spin the rear wheels. which improved corene five years and nine hundred million dollars later, the car was finally ready to arrive at the Frankfurt Motor Show, but in September 89, to say it was well received would be an understatement eight days after the Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW had received five thousand orders for the $100,000 car in 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 willing to spend double the list price to avoid the list of wait with so much initial success, the folks at the motorsports division, also known as em, immediately set out to create some new trim levels in 92, they released the entry level 840 i which was powered by a v8 and had almost the same Hurst power but less torque than the 850 I.

In 1993, after all those back-order morons had acquired their base 850 eyes, BMW introduced an upgraded version known as the 840 and 850 CI, as well as the high-end version. performance, the 850 CSI, which stands for crime scene investigation. Yes, CSI's new m70 v12 engine was 5.6. liters and ripped 381 Hurst purrs the new engine was so impressive that McLaren borrowed it to power their new supercar the f1 you've ever heard of you know Carly had the top speed record for damn if you grew up in the 90s , this was the car. That's probably why they are auctioned for about $20 million. Mr. Bean won smashed.

The CSI was the first car to now have BMW's standard dynamic stability control instead of the big, complicated AK rear-steering system we talked about earlier. The DSC relied on sensors and other electronics to apply 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 famous painter David Hockney was commissioned to make it BMW's 14th art car, which he did. Painting his interpretation of the car from the inside out, he even put a veiny dog ​​in the back seat, but it wasn't all rainbows and later, for the eighth series, this was the first BMW designed entirely using CAD or computer-aided design. computer, which meant the one he was able to work on because

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was so tightly and intricately built that even minor repairs and maintenance were a nightmare and cost a damn fortune when combined with a global oil shortage.

Yes, we mentioned it, it came to this episode, it had a high starting price and the advances of competing manufacturers people stopped buying the big touring car and by 1999 the eight series was dead, but hey, it's the car most successful german v12 ever made, so during the 2000s remake culture was in full swing and the world had sold out. of ideas, so everyone was digging up the past and looking to make a buckle, but not all remakes were bad with sales of traditional sedans and coupes falling because buyers prefer televisions and CBS 20:19 seemed like the perfect time for BMW will release a new version of its own £40,500, $85,000 remake coupe because why wasn't it official that the eight series would return, but not with the v12?

I know it was a little better because now it has big turbo babies. BMW gave the new car the 8 Series moniker and the g15 model designation, like all new BMWs, including the Supra, the 8 Series gets BMW's carbon core technology that integrates a carbon fiber into the chassis , which keeps weight down and increases rigidity, leading to better handling. The suspension is double wishbone. Ranch clothing on the front. and beef jerky with multiple jack links in the rear, the G15 can be had in three basic configurations: There's the base 840 that comes with a 3-liter turbocharged inline six-cylinder engine, good for 335 spurs and 369 lb.

Petersburg , then there's the M 850 that comes with a 4.4 liter twin-turbo V8 good for 523 Herzberg and then there's the mack daddy of them all, the one that everyone else looks at and says, man, that guy's cool, the m8 that uses a slightly reconfigured version of the m8 50s engine to punch out 600 per person almost as much twist and all trim levels come with an 8-speed automatic transmission and are available with BMW's xDrive all-wheel drive system, which is all-wheel drive, but don't worry because you can turn it off, yes, to get full rear drive, if you want, spend an extra 13 grand and get the competition m8, it comes with sick wheels and a little badge so whether you're sitting in traffic or Slamming the rear end into a curb, people will know you have the best BMW talking. of which you want an incredible victory, this episode is sponsored by omae's and we work with them before you know how it goes, click on the link in the description or go to the omae's communication bar and enter the victory a new BMW 2020 m8. competition with a very limited edition Dravot metallic paint and a 4.4-liter twin-turbo v8 delivering 617 hertz, all taxes and shipping are included, plus you get $20,000 cash to spend on whatever you want, not only that, but also when you make a donation.

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