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Posted
Dec 01 2011, 08:10 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 29 comment(s)
For my next Essen Motor Show feature, I'm going to concentrate on showcasing race and drift cars, starting with this Ferrari 458. We quite like the simplicity of the livery as it allows you to appreciate the lines of the car. Perhaps more race cars should go this route. Here's more proof, showing that race cars often look better without liveries. My heart skipped a beat when I came across this DTM BMW E30 M3. It was parked up next to the 2012 DTM M3 that Rod featured earlier, linking BMW's...
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Posted
Nov 07 2011, 05:00 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 73 comment(s)
Here's a SEMA find that's is sure to generate some heat in the comments section. As I worked my way through the Central Hall last week, I came across Kevin Byrd's 1990 E30 M3 sitting in the Heatshield Products booth....
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Posted
Jul 27 2011, 11:00 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 26 comment(s)
Have you guys got a sense of the difference between a Car Feature and a Car Spotlight on Speedhunters? In general terms, a feature will normally include an art directed shoot, in depth conversations with the car builder, detailed shots of the exterior, cockpit and engine and a full spec list. A spotlight on the other hand can be anything as short as 4 or 5 photos, without us having specs of any sort. The spotlight category is useful when we find cars at events that catch our eye, and want to share...
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Posted
Jul 17 2011, 09:40 AM
by
Linhbergh
with 107 comment(s)
Almost nine months ago, I purchased a 1989 BMW 325i . And for the past few months, I've been tootling around Southern California with the car completely stock. Since my Miata, I've had the inkling to drive a fixed up car for a long, long time. But before I was going to throw on a bunch of aftermarket parts on the car... ...I wanted to see what I had to work with. I made a trip over to HPS Silicon Hoses , in the City of Industry, for a baseline run. The E30 was bolted to HPS' DynaPack...
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Posted
Jun 12 2011, 11:50 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 40 comment(s)
It's been a few months since I bought my E30 sedan. Since then, I have to admit that I have not participated in any of the usual automotive socializing. I'm a member, but do not frequent the forums, e30tech & r3vlimited and I have not gone to any E30 meets in Southern California. So, when I heard about a car show and BBQ at E30 Motor Werks, in Huntington Beach, CA, the shop where my E30 gets its maintenance work done, I knew I had to go. With previous knowledge on how meets usually work...
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Posted
Feb 22 2011, 02:10 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 60 comment(s)
Hi guys. Well thanks for the hundreds of comments that you've been passing in my direction. The response to my SHIFT2 UNLEASHED blog posts have been so full of ideas, thoughts and questions that I've literally had to take a moment to figure out what to say. So for this blog post I'm going to try and dive in to explain some more detail first on the customization system which will hopefully answer some of your many questions. Now the whole customization system in SHIFT2 UNLEASHED is entirely...
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Posted
Feb 18 2011, 10:30 AM
by
Linhbergh
with 11 comment(s)
We're in mid-February now and in Southern California, you can almost taste the springtime coming. But in many places of world that is not California, there's a bit of white powder on the ground still. Here's a few of Speedhunter readers doing a bit of speedhunting in their local winter wonderland. Jelle de Rijke, from Holland, sent this great photo of him and his E30 wagon having a blast in the wintery weather. Love the hand out the window! Here's a bit more E30 lovin' from Vincent...
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Posted
Nov 20 2010, 04:30 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 53 comment(s)
Going around to various automotive events, I meet a lot of people. Many of them ask what car I drive. And most of the time, they would expect someone who is so active in the automotive world to have a car that would match the on paper glamour. As I answer their question, I can just see the fire from their eyes fade and the not-so-enthused response of "Oh, that's cool." immediately follows. See, for a person that goes around taking photos of cars, I have a pretty dismal car history....
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Posted
Oct 06 2010, 12:15 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 31 comment(s)
And some people say drag racing is boring...
-Mike Garrett
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Posted
Sep 08 2010, 10:30 AM
by
Linhbergh
with 19 comment(s)
Last week, Jeroen, gave us a quick spotlight into the Team Edlinger E30. It's hard to tell from the photos alone that the car is more than just a race car but more of a drooling, snarling, fire breathing beast. So, to follow up with that spotlight, here's a video of the car hauling all sorts of behind while on its 2nd race. Turn up those speakers because this car sings!
Any race car that sparks like this E30 is a winner in my book.
-Linhbergh
Thank you Wolfgang Maringer, from our Facebook page, for sending us this video!
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Posted
Sep 01 2010, 12:00 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 33 comment(s)
I'm not sure if any of you remember the first spotlight I dedicated to this car ? Right after I featured the car I got a notice that the car had been burned beyond recognition. But this year Team Edlinger returned with a newly built E30 with the same engine and gearbox but with a new shell. Underneath the car is pretty much the same as the old car but on the exterior a lot has changed. The first thing I noticed is that they removed the canards at the front and rear. The arch extensions have also...
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Posted
Jul 27 2010, 05:01 AM
by
Alok Paleri
with 11 comment(s)
Being active in the German drift scene, it is inevitable that every second car I see or shoot is a BMW, as the parts cost next to nothing compared to those of JDM models. That said, referring to this car as 'just another drift BMW' would be a big mistake. It belongs to Michael Sahli from Driftteam Switzerland who has been thrashing it sideways since the beginning of 2008. It started its life in 1991 as an E30 325i Touring and eventually landed in the hands of Michu in 2007. He showed no mercy...
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Posted
Jun 16 2010, 03:06 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 81 comment(s)
After Mike's Random Snap I started thinking about the fact how the drop would affect the performance of the car. Especially with a car like the iconic E30 M3 that has been build with performance in mind. We all know that lowering a car to a certain extent improves handling but would you lower it to this extent? -Jeroen
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Posted
Jun 16 2010, 02:45 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 25 comment(s)
Every once in a while, there comes a car that sets the automotive blogosphere on fire.
Surely this E30 M3 will be one of them, right?
Spotted on HellaFlush.
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Jan 25 2010, 11:16 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 28 comment(s)
A Speedhunter without a proper project car just didn't feel right. So this morning I bought this BMW E30 316i car from a good friend. The car didn't want to start so tonight I'm going to work on it and see if I can make it run. In the meantime I'm making a list with goodies that I want, right now I'm thinking low, stance, no bodykit and white (yes I know) . The plan is to make it ready for a few laps on the Nürburgring every now and then. So in the end a new engine is in...
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Posted
Nov 01 2009, 10:44 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 40 comment(s)
While researching this blog post, I didn't want to make a standard Driver Profile of Paul Vlasblom like what we've been doing with the Formula D drifters. I wanted to turn it into a Q&A type of feature with lots of pictures of his cars, build projects and driving skills instead. Paul's career got started in 1998 when he was working for a Porsche dealership and and was racing a E30. He already loved to slide the little BMW but it never occurred to him it was a real sport. He won the...
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Posted
Oct 13 2009, 03:06 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 5 comment(s)
When Jörg Söhner of International Drift Series got on the phone to me early Friday asking me to bring enough warm clothes, I already knew that my day covering the event would be not the most comfortable job in the world. We were headed to that famous racetrack, originally called Lausitzring, now the Eurospeedway Lausitz. Even though the track was built to extremely high safety standards, the history of the track is punctuated with mishaps that send a chill down the spine. The track has previously taken the life of the ex-F1 driver Michele Alboreto while testing an Audi R8 Le Mans Prototype and it's also the same place where the two time American CART series champion Alex Zanardi lost both his legs in a freak accident.
This did get some drivers shaken up a bit before the safety briefing, but as the day went on and the sun shined through, the drivers began pushing themselves on the subsection of the track that was used for judged drifting. The biggest hurdle was pushing the car more towards its limit on the round 800m long main stretch while at the same time keeping the speed reasonable. Drivers were warned during briefing not to go full pelt on the main straight, but despite that most cars had entry speeds of around 180-200 km/h.
Here is clip of the current championship leader and Falken driver Lars Verbraeken throwing his E30 around the track.
-Alok
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Posted
Sep 16 2009, 03:12 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 22 comment(s)
The long history of BMW is filled with iconic models, but none of them are as influential as the 3-series. For over 30-years the 3-series has been a favorite of everyone from executives to weekend racers to housewives, and has long stood atop the sport sedan market on all corners of the globe. As part of our special BMW features this month, a look back at history this iconic model is in order....
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Posted
Sep 10 2009, 11:50 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 22 comment(s)
I have posted pictures of this car before on my own blog . But I haven't seen any progress since, so I was hoping that the Speedhunters audience could shed some light what happened with this E30 twin turbo V8. So does anybody have any info on this car? Please let me know in the comments. -Jeroen Willemsen
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Posted
Sep 08 2009, 07:11 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 36 comment(s)
After reading some of the comments on this feature (yes I do read all of your comments). Jacek pointed me into the direction of this awesome Hillclimb car. I must say I was very impressed by this car and even more so after seeing this video . The car belongs to Team Edlinger and has been build by Koppe Engineering in Austria. The base car is a BMW E30, but as you can see it has been transformed into a formidable racecar. The aero modifications are insane and remind me of the DTM cars we see nowadays...
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