BMW Blog: 2008 Bmw Automobile X5

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Baru Diluncurkan Kamis, BMW 760Li Sudah Banyak Dipesan

JAKARTA, 22 Maret 2010 – PT BMW Indonesia akan meluncurkan generasi baru seri tujuh di jajaran trah BMW yaitu BMW 760Li pada 25 Maret mendatang. Namun demikian, BMW Indonesia belum bersedia membocorkan banderol harga sedan itu bermesin 6.000 cc DOHC Turbocharged direct injection 12 silinder .

“Kalau soal harga belum bisa kami sampaikan, nanti saja pas peluncuran 25 Maret saja. Yang pasti, kehadiran seri ini sudah ditunggu banyak penggemar setia BMW. ” tutur Helena Abidin, Director of Corporate Communication PT BMW Indonesia saat dihubungi, di Jakarta, Senin (22/3).

Namun, Helena tak bersedia menyebut berapa jumlah calon pembeli yang sudah melakukan indent tersebut. Ia hanya menyebut cukup banyak untuk ukuran sebuah mobil mewah.

Sedan yang di Eropa diluncurkan September 2009 lalu itu diklaim mampu menyemburkan tenaga hingga 535 daya kuda. Sementara akselerasi dari posisi diam (0 kilometer per jam) ke kecepatan 100 kilometer per jam mampu dicapai dalam tempo 5,4 detik.

Tak hanya itu. Seri 760Li itu juga disebut mampu melesat hingga kecepatan 250 kilometer per jam. BMW juga mengaku menambahkan fitur baru di sedan itu selain fitur standar yang telah ada seperti airbag, Antilock Braking System (ABS), Electoronic Stability Programme (ESP),serta Electronic Brake Force Distribution (EBD).

Sumber foto

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Just got an X6

no. not e mobile phone X6, but the BMW X6.

No, i didn’t get the real car though. sadly. It’s an RC car, a really detailed model too. The pictures don’t really do the car justice, but hey, if you are interested in cars and have a childish, ahem, childhood-fulfilling desire to manipulate them with a remote control, get them soon yea. It is branded as RASTAR, and is currently sold at Toys ‘r’ us and Action City (from what I know, that is). They have brands ranging from Toyotas to Infinitis. Check them out…

and oh yea, the scale of the models are 1:14, quite big and clunky. Zhng the motor (aftermarket) inside to give you twice the speed.

another advert: Toys’r'us are selling Ferraris and Lambos @ half price too. I am so going to get them the next time I step into Vivo…

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BMW: Conrad Piepenburg's Story of Joy

For BMW’s project “Story of Joy”, Conrad Piepenburg and his team shot at various locations in Barcelona. Have a look at some of the fotos:

LocLum is very proud to have supplied the shooting with their outstanding material.

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bimmer night

Impromptu Tuesday night shoot with Green4door’s E30 and random found some other locals.

Mr. Scribbles anonymous.

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Tablecloth trick

A great video from the folks at BMW.

The takeover of once boring but always reliable BMW Motorad by horsepower crazy lunatics continues. These days BMW bikes (depending on the model) have almost too much power but still retain the core BMW values of sturdiness, practicality and safety.

All of the BMW’s that I have ridden have a certain laid back attitude – one that does not demand that you ride them like a crazy loon, but still that offers that ability if you wish to wield it.

If you’d like me to try this on your table using my portly BMW R1200GS Adventure then let me know. Results may differ.

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BMW K1300s to step in India

BMW a prestigious bike maker company in the world wants to launch a sports version of K1300s Bike in India for the year 2010. The upcoming sports bike will come with a 1293cc engine along with a top speed of 200 kph and moderate weight of 254 kg having various colours. The colours are Lava Orange, Light Grey and Black. The capacity of fuel tank is 19ltrs. Apart from above the product has silent features like alloy wheels and tubeless tyres. The brake twin disc for the front wheel and single disc for the rear. It is designed to overcome the latest trend.

BMW K1300S

BMW K1300S

The shape of the bike will win the minds of the people and well suited to the Indian roads. It is designed to grab the hearts of youth. Behind these specialties, the cost of the bike is seen less as it might be available at around 10 lakh.

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BMW Vision (My Dream Car)

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MINI of Ontario grand opening!

Below is the official press release from BMW on the grand opening of MINI of Ontario dealership. If you live in California, you should check them out. When I make a trip out to California, I will be stopping by. Motor On!

Woodcliff Lake, NJ – March 5, 2010… On Saturday, March 6, MINI USA and the Inland Empire community will celebrate the MINI of Ontario Grand Opening, the 15th MINI dealership in California, and the largest facility in Southern California. The newest location fills a geographic gap in the brand’s dealer network, making MINI more readily available to new customers and offering additional convenience to several thousand MINI owners who already live in the area. “California is a key market for the MINI brand, and we are expanding the dealer network by positioning new facilities in markets that have solid growth potential, like the Inland Empire,” said Jim McDowell, Vice President MINI USA. “In doing so, we are committed to maintaining the profitability of our existing dealers, and will add new facilities where it makes sense for the network as a whole, as well as the community.” The MINI of Ontario dealership is located at the intersection of four major highways (I-15, I-10, Highway 60 and I-215) which connect Los Angeles, Orange County and Palm Springs. The new MINI facility is ideally located for Inland Empire customers who currently drive two hours roundtrip to Monrovia or Irvine for sales and service. A total of 37 new jobs were added to the local economy when the dealership began operating, and the owner made use of an existing building, staying true to the brand’s values associated with MINIMALISM. Re-using an existing facility allowed the dealer to minimize the negative impact associated with building a brand new facility, save cost and re-energize a storefront. The fully renovated facility where MINI of Ontario now operates was previously a BMW Certified Pre-Owned dealership. Positioned on 2.13 acres, the new MINI dealership covers 22,017 sq. ft., including a 3,200 sq. ft. showroom that displays seven MINI vehicles. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the facility is equipped with a state-of-the-art sound system and big screen TVs throughout the showroom, service reception area and service drive. The service drive also has a built-in gas grill and air hockey table, offering customers real MINI hospitality during visits. To manage the work flow, Inland Empire MINI utilizes IMAC Apple computers and has 10 work stalls (with room for future expansion). “The world is becoming more MINI every day, and consumer tastes are shifting decidedly to cars that offer tremendous value. The MINI brand is considered ageless, and its core traits are well-aligned with the demands of today’s customers,” said McDowell. “Our cars are not only fuel efficient, and offer great value, but they also provide a fun and dynamic motoring experience and are packed with personality.” MINI of Ontario is owned by Pete Savage, who also owns Savage BMW in Ontario, California. He has been BMW dealer for 25 years, and is a seven-time winner of BMW’s Center of Excellence Award. MINI is proud to welcome him to the MINI family of dealers. The MINI of Ontario dealership is located at 1251 Auto Center Drive, Ontario, CA 91761. The Grand Opening celebration begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 6. Guests will enjoy great food, entertainment, prizes and raffles. Ontario Mayor, Paul Leon, will perform the ribbon cutting at 11 a.m. Other special guests will include Jim McDowell, Vice President of MINI USA; Robert Frisch, Vice President, BMW Group Western Region; as well as local celebrities. Media interviews are available. Please contact MINI Communications for scheduling. In the spirit of MINI’s giving back philosophy, MINI of Ontario has selected the Loma Linda Ronald McDonald House to receive a donation from the event. The mission of the Loma Linda Ronald McDonald House is to provide a “home away from home” for families of critically ill or injured children receiving medical treatment at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital and nearby facilities. In addition to this charitable effort, the team at MINI of Ontario works on a regular basis with other non-profit organizations, including: Automotive Youth Education System (AYES), Law Enforcement Organization of Ontario (LEO), Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Ontario Automobile Dealer Association, Rancho Cucamonga High School Band and the Inland Empire Chapter of Red Cross Blood Bank.

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BMW X1

Wonderful and smart fourwheeler for really smart people has really got its way New BMW X1. A very stylish and luxurious car to add more style and comfort in your life New BMW X1is a cost efficient Sports Utility Vehicle in an economic price and having a range between 25 lacs to 30 lacs, now luxury is in your hands. New BMW X1 has got its five offsprings and has got the power of both manual and automatic transmission.These off springs have got the power of diesel engine. New BMW X1 is going to launch as CKD (Completely Knocked Down) unit.

BMW X1

Stylish and luxurious New BMW X1 has five stylish variants and every one is equipped with diesel engine that gives different level of power and torque. Two offsprings of New BMW X1 have got 1995cc, 4-Cylinder, 16-Valve, diesel engine gives maximum power at 4000rpm along with 320Nm of maximum torque at 1750~2500rpm. New BMW X1 has another two offsprings have 177bhp of maximum power at 4000rpm with 350Nm of maximum torque at 1750~3000rpm and got same engine. Top end offspring has got much higher level of power and torque as compared to other ones as it has same engine 204bhp of maximum power at 4400rpm alongwith 400Nm of maximum torque at 2000~2250rpm.

BMW X1

Stunning and eye catchy New BMW X1 has really got very advanced features to make you ahead of all. ITS interiors and exteriors are really mesmerising and specially made to facilitate you. Sparkling New BMW X1 has wonderful exteriors body colored door handles, satin aluminium roof rails, V-shaped alloy wheels, illuminated glove compartment, satin aluminium roof rails and heated and automatic adjustable ORVMs (Outside Rear View Mirrors). And Interiors are really comfortable and luxurious with satin silver interior trim gifted with front armrest with sliding adjustment. For afety and handling it has with smart safety features like ABS (Antilock Braking System) with EBD (Electronic Brake-Force Distribution), child lock, central lock and wonderful front and rear seat belts with pretensioner and belt force limiter.

BMW X1

So if you want to have a passionate drive then get a hold of new and stunning BMW X1.

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Friday round-up

And finally…

- BMW is going to lease its electric 1-Series coupe, previewed by the ActivE concept, in Berlin, London, Paris and several US cities. A test fleet of up to 700 cars will be available. The 170bhp ActivE can do 160kph and has a range of 170km. As with the Mini E trials, this programme will feed into the development of the Megacity electric vehicle.

- Rental firm Europcar has pre-ordered 500 electric vehicles from Renault for delivery in the third quarter of 2011. The cars will be deployed in Europe’s largest cities; first on the fleets will be the Fluence ZE saloon, the Twizy ZE city car and the Kangoo ZE van, with the Zoe ZE supermini and further variants to follow. Renault also confirmed a deal with Avis earlier this month.

- Mercedes-Benz is to spend E1billion a year over the next two years to develop batteries and more efficient powertrains, reports AutoBeat Europe. Most of this spending will be on electric vehicles, nearly doubling the current investment. Daimler plans to produce its own long-life lithium-ion batteries  in Germany from 2012.

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Hidden talents.

You may recall mention of my experience of a Focus ST on a track in the hands of a professional racing driver recently, an experience that left me stirred, but not shaken.

So when a bright red second-hand (used Fords are always second-hand, it’s only Bentley’s that are “previously cherished”) example rocked up at the dealership for a customer to try I had to borrow the keys and take it for a sprint up the road.

Now the Focus generally is a perfectly reasonable car. It does what it does, is comfortable, handles neatly, is reasonably equipped and looks nice enough. It may lack the obsessional surprise and delight tactility of some of its German rivals, but it inevitably sells for a bit less used or new (ignore the list price, there are deals) so everyone is happy. It’s not the second-best selling car in Britain (behind the Ford Fiesta) for nothing. I’ve been running one for a few days whilst I wait for my new company car to be delivered (ordered but not yet arrived) and it’s a pleasant and comfortable if unremarkable way of getting around. But it’s not the sort of thing you can obsess over, it doesn’t impart a warm glow (unlike the Polite Hatchback, especially with those heated seats), it simply does the job neatly and efficiently.

The ST, however, is something else. Driving the ST is like watching an old lady break dance well, there’s a delicious unfeasibility to it, a sense that it just shouldn’t be possible.

On the outside the car is a fairly standard if slightly Barry’d Focus. There’s some wings and big wheels and whatnot, but nothing Baz and Daz wouldn’t buy from Halfords and bolt to their 1.6 base model. Inside the only giveaways are a pair of deeply bolstered and supremely comfortable Recaro seats and a set of auxiliary guages atop the dash (just like Ford used to fit on hot Cortina MK2’s back in the seventies, albeit there were no turbo boost guages on those old Fords). It’s under the bonnet that the big news lies, in the shape of a five cylinder two and a half litre turbo charged petrol engine imported from Volvo. This is the Red Bull that gives the Focus ST its wings, this is the hub, the powerhouse, the news.

Slip into the Recaro and you’re in a world of ordinariness. Sure, the seats are fab (and orange in the car I drove) but you’re sat on them so you can’t see ‘em. The extra dials give a nod to the performance cred, but that’s about all. Fire it up and it’s smoother than a normal Focus, but it doesn’t shout, you can barely hear the engine. Slot into gear and toddle off down the road and if you’ve driven a lot of Foci (I have) you’ll notice a slightly firmer ride bit it’s not hard, and never crashy. All in all it feels like a nice normal Focus with better seats, a bit smoother engine, and a fractionally firmer ride.

Right up until the point where you hit a fast road and nail it!

Big engines give you torque. Turbochargers give you torque. And torque is twist action, pull, grunt. It’s what gives you that unrelenting neck straining never ending catapult of acceleration that you feel in a fast jet aircraft on takeoff. The ST has 236lb/ft of the stuff available from just 1,600rpm, giving great big velvety unburstable effortless wallop, in any gear, at any speed. Drop the hammer and the car just lunges forward, no lag, no waiting for the revs to build, floor it and the car charges like Ocean Finance, all to the accompaniment of a sonorous warble that segues smoothly into a hard edged howl as the tacho sweeps round the dial as smoothly as the second hand of a Rolex watch. It’s just epic! We’re talking proper junior supercar performance here, sixty miles an hour from a standing start takes just over six seconds (think about that, each 10mph increment takes about one second), and it’s a full fat 150mph flat out.

And the good news doesn’t end there. The Focus has always been best in class for ride and handling and the ST is no exception. The ride quality at speed is excellent, smooth and planted, steering precise and accurate, and cornering without wallow or roll.

It’s a car that urges you on, each snick snick gearchange bringing a fresh double cream slug of noise and power. It’s addictive.

But above all the joy is the sheer unlikeliness of what lies beneath the surface. It’s like buying an Amstrad hi fi and discovering the innards are Bang and Olufsen, like buying a ticket with Ryan Air and finding yourself in First Class, like ordering a Maccie D and finding a Goucho Grill steak between the buns.

For sure, there will always be a whiff of Essex about any fast Ford, a touch of Burberry, a dab of Addidas. But you can buy these things at three years old with sensible mileage for about ten grand. That has to make it the performance bargain of the century.

I’d de-Barry mine and stick a 1.6 Zetec badge on the back. And go BMW hunting…

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2009/2010 Winter Season – Jan – Build Update

The BMW chassis has been prone to cracking front and rear subframes (search BMW subframe class action). Knowing the chassis was going to be exposed to higher forces than a stock car on the street I made these a priority.

Without reinforcement plates you could end up with cracks in your subframe

or worse it could tear out completely like this poor souls did

Here are the subframe re-enforcement kit components from Turner Motorsports

Front

Rear

and here they are welded into place. RRT Racing did the work, beautiful!

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2009/2010 Winter Season - Feb - Build Update II

A couple updates for a Feb end of the month. Got a set of the 275×35x18 Toyo R888 scrubs mounted up on the new ARC8 wheels.

Couldn’t fit my finger between the tire and the front spring and was afraid of the tire rubbing the spring when cornering forces were in affect so I ordered a set of 5mm spacers from Bimmerworld for the fronts.

5mm spacers

To make wheel/tire changes easier and quicker I also got a set of 75mm Bulletnose wheel studs and nuts (in black).

75mm Bulletnose Wheel Studs & Nuts

A few pics of the car in the shop with wheels mounted, no negative camber added yet, will start with at least 3 degrees in the front and 1.5 – 1.8 degrees in the rear. In these pictures the rears have a 12mm spacer just to push the wheel out for cosmetic purposes in the pics. If I want to run the 12mm spacers for a wider track we will need to do some fender rolling.

Pop’d the black & white center caps into the wheels as well (which match the black & white roundels I added to the car in 2009).

Wheels, Studs & CenterCaps
Front Wheel

Rear Wheel

Also had time Wednesday night to test fit the driver seat & harness and prepare for installing the harness mounting hardware.

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