E30 M3 V10 S85 vs BMW M3 V8 - YouTube video

This is a video I mentioned in WebClips in the club magazine a while ago, seeing that we now have an interactive way to share these things I thought I would give it a go, hope you like it, it's immense!!

In the February edition of Straight Six......

The February edition of "Straight Six" the BMW Car Club monthly magazine will be with Club members in the next few days. It's 84 pages packed with all things BMW. This month, amongst other articles you will find:

• The second instalment of an article on the Alpina Roadster S, (with 400 bhp!)
• A Club members account of a Riviera adventure, where he mixes it with the likes of Ferrari, Porsche and Audi
• An owners view of living with a ZM coupe
• A guide to buying cars from on-line auction sites

To get the magazine regularly all you need to do is join the club, click here for details.

National Festival - the biggest and the best!

It's just 200 days to go until the worlds biggest gathering of BMW's take's place and it's organised by YOUR club! This year we are having events on both the Saturday and the Sunday. On Saturday we will be holding the National Concours and a special E30 M3 birthday event, Richard Baxter (M Power Register and Director) is going to re-create the famous Jeremy Walton photograph from the "Unbeatable BMW's" book where the "///M" is made up entirely of E30 M3's!

On the Saturday night we will have a hog roast and entertainment for those that want to stay late, camp on site or stay nearby, and then on the Sunday we have the main event with it's usual attractions as well as continuing the E30 M3 birthday theme with road and race cars and another birthday celebration for the '02 series.

Tickets will go on sale in March with discounts for club members, watch this blog, facebook, the magazine etc. for more news as it happens.

Award winning club magazine "Straight Six"

Every month club members receive a high quality 80+ page magazine packed full of news and information that is of interest to club members throughout the country. You'll find the latest club news, an update on BMW Motorsports, reports and photographs from recent club events, details about discounts that club members can get along with classified advertisements and much more besides! Here are a couple of articles we ran recently:

To join the club all you need to do is contact the club office, you can do this via telephone (01225 709009), email (bmwcarclub@btconnect.com) or by visiting the membership page on the web site.

Prodrive factory tour

One of the clubs local regions (Wessex) has organised a trip to Prodrive in Banbury for Saturday 16th April, tickets are £20 each. Please contact purebmw@btinternet.com to register your interest. A quick overview of the tour is below.

Tour overview:

• Coffee and welcome in the Prodrive heritage centre where you can view race and rally cars from Prodrive’s 25 years in world motorsport
• Rally car transmission and engine build and dynos - to see what it takes to make an £80,000 gearboxThe workshops where we build the Subaru rally cars and the Aston Martin GT1, GT2, GT3, GT4 and the current Gulf liveried LMP1 sports cars and its V12 engines
• Advanced manufacturing facilities where we fabricate and machine all the parts which go into our cars
• See the new BMW rally Mini which be on display
• Opportunity to visit the new shop, to buy the merchandise we produce on behalf of Aston Martin Racing, McLaren F1, Williams F1 and the Subaru World Rally Team, as well as Prodrive performance wheels and parts and special items of memorabilia not available anywhere else.  All at specially discounted prices to our guests

BMW Car Club On Track - season opener

We open the track day season at Silverstone on their new Stowe Circuit, we have the track exclusively and will be running an open pit lane set-up. for more details please visit our facebook page or contact Nick our track day organiser: nick@bmwcarclubgb.co.uk