Nearly everyone who loves cars has a favorite BMW, or at least a favorite BMW story.
Some stories have two wheels, others four.
The cars that wear BMW s propeller roundel badge have won the 12 Hours of Sebring, the 24 Hours of Daytona and the true grail at Le Mans. Their turbocharged engines powered the 1983 Formula 1 World Champion Brabham while their muscular production-based V12s won Le Mans powering two radically different cars. When Steve Earle chose the ancient Bavarian marque as the featured marque of the 1996 Monterey Historic Automobile Races, they gathered BMW s elite corps of champion drivers for the occasion. World Champion Nelson Piquet came from Brazil. BMW IMSA teammates and brother Speedvision commentators David Hobbs and Sam Posey were already in the States.