Thanks to Mitch C., we received an internal memo sent to all the BMW dealerships in the country, regarding the new 2009 BMW 7 Series. As mentioned before, earlier this morning, the official leaked photos were released on the web, but not many other information were available at that time.

According to this internal memo, the official photos will be released by BMW this Saturday, July 5th, at 6:00PM EST. The same memo confirms our initial statements that the BMW 7 Series will be released in Spring 2009 in the U.S market and late this fall in Europe. 

The press release will provide a product overview of the car including most of the new standard and optional features. The press photos will feature European spec cars.

An overview of the new 7 Series will be featured in the Future Vehicles section of the bmwusa.com website. The press release will be available on the same website. As we approach Fall, more detailed information will be released to the customers. 

And in the end, I will make available a pdf file that was posted by the fellows at Autospies.com

BMW 7 Series Official Press Release PDF 

Today is definitely the BMW 7 Series day and we're going to continue the coverage on this latest BMW model. The new 7 will definitely be a popular subject for the next few weeks and expect to receive more information, photos or brochures. 

Early this morning, we were some of the first sites to show you the leaked official photos, but unfortunately the quality of the images wasn't what we expected. We knew that it will be just a matter of time until everyone that was holding onto the official brochures, will go ahead and release them.

So here we are, a few hours later, and we finally have some decent size images that will allow us to zoom in and explore the features of this amazing, in my opionion, new 7 Series.

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We did mention a while back that the new 7 Series will be the first bimmer to have the iDrive and today, we finally had a chance to see how the new iDrive controllers look like. Take a look at the photo below.

Our friends at Bimmerfile got their hands on what they seem to be some official photos of the BMW 3 Series E90/E91 facelifted versions. The quality is not probably the greatest and they seem to be some regular scans, but at least we get to see something different than the multitude of spy photos we have seen lately, like here, here or here. 

As mentioned before the BMW 3 Series facelift will receive a new bumper, grille and different fog lights, along with new LED taillights. A nice set of new wheels seem to become available for the 3 Series sedan, especially the wheels found on the sedan, which seem to be similar to the coupe version.

The design is definitely a step forward and we are pleased with what BMW accomplished, improving a car that it's already their best seller.

Btw, if you guys missed the BMW 7 Series official photos, go to the home page and see what surprised landed in our inbox today.

[Source: Bimmerfile ]

BMW 7 Series

Update: More photos added

No more silly games, no more playing the spy photographer game, we finally have the real deal: the BMW 7 Series official photos. Even though, the official launch date isn't until next week, some good folks decided to release some photos from the official brochure. 

But let's talk less and do more, so let's see the photos

[Source: Worldcarfans and Flickr ]

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Thanks to worldcarfans.com we now have the first official pictues of the new 7 Series!

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I just found a video of the new 7-series testing and wanted to show it to you as well. You can see the car driven on the road as well as on the track. Hope you enjoy it!

The video has been published by the German car-magazine auto, motor und sport. The video is online since the 26th of June, but at least I haven't seen it so far.

Here is the latest BMW 7 Series teaser. www.never-stand-still.com

It's a countdown of when the new BMW 7 Series will be unveiled in Moscow. A few days ago, we learned that BMW will reveal their new 7 in several cities around the world, one of them being Moscow, more specifically, the famous Red Square.

About two months ago, BMW has revealed their M1 Hommage, a concept that pays tribute to the original M1. The new design was shown at a private party at the Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este. And just a few days ago, as a refresher, Andrew has posted an article on the BMW M1 Procar returning to the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim July 19th and 20th. 

Yesterday, one of our readers, Jon, sent in a rendering of the BMW M1 Procar, based on the M1 Hommage concept. Based on his experience and actually seeing in person the M1 Procar, Jon managed to come up with a cool rendering, something that would be appealing to all the BMW fans.

Here is what Jon had to say:

I began the process by studying the different angles of the M1 Concept Car to get a feel for the lines, shapes and curvature of the body. And with any BMW concept car, the design and contours are all new which required a ProCar body kit that suits these lines properly. The “flamed surface” is very evident so to properly convert this M1 to the ProCar, all of these design elements needed to be considered. I sketched out a new wide body kit design making sure that it stays true to the BMW design language by continuing the new lines of the concept car. The front fascia was also modified and given the updated ProCar look. So with Photoshop CS, the new design was applied and rendered. The BMW M1 ProCar is basically a raced-out version of the original street M1 so the addition of the race rear wing was important to complete the conversion along with new super deep dish wheels.

You can read more about this his blog as well JonSibal.com

So, what do you think of it? Any pros, cons? Could this be Batman's weekend automobile?

[Source: jonsibal.com ]

And here is the M1 Hommage. Full gallery here

Finally we get to see some good photos of the next generation 2009 BMW Z4. I was getting tired to see the covered up dashboard and controllers and try to guess what's hiding behind it. The amazing guys at KGP Photography managed to take some nice shots of the Z4 interior. And WOW, the center console looks pretty damn good. The AC buttons and the other controllers are quite interesting and different from what we have seen so far in the BMW interior designs. 

I also totally dig the steering wheel, interesting shape and the chrome parts look pretty good. If you take a look at the last photo, you will be able to see the central area around the shifter fully uncovered.

Anyway, I figure you might enjoy these.

[Source: Jalopnik.com and KGP Photography ]

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One of our readers just sent us in a music video showing a chromed BMW 6 Series roaming around Nice, South France. The car looks quite stunning and it's interesting to see such a "pimped out" 6 Series.

The lyrics are in german, so I couldn't really understand everything, but the hot girls in the video should keep you occupied. A bunch of swimsuits running around, so if you're at work, and not comfortable watching it, I would suggest saving it for later in the day

P.S If the video doesn't work, follow this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK2QS-jjJuk

This past weekend, we were invited to the first Lux5 event that took place in Chicago. Lux5 is a company that focuses on luxury car shows where the main attraction are the rare and exotic automobiles, along with many moded cars. 

The first Chicago show was held at our famous Navy Pier location and it turned out to be a great show, despite the beautiful weather outside that might have kept the people on the beach, rather than inside. But the true car fans were all there snapping photos or flirting with the beautiful models.

Our main goal was to check out the BMW cars present at the show and we already knew that our friends at Ind-Distribution will be there. We were eager to check out the BMW M3 Coupe that we saw a few months ago all over the car related websites. And to our surprise, Anthony and Nate from Ind-Dist had more cars in display than we expected. 

Along with the already famous M3 coupe, there was a BMW 135i Coupe and another E92 M3 that we have seen here before. 

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Today we have some very nice European racing action from the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The video was filmed during the 3rd lap of a 4-hour-race that took place there.

The car with the camera is a modified BMW Z4 Motorsport, but since this car "only" has about 400 horsepower the guys at Getrag decided to mount a more powerful V8-engine into the chassis. The driver, Michael Bäder, is chasing the winning car of the 24-hour-race 2007, a Porsche 911 RSR (996) from Manthey Racing.

Manthey Racing did also win the 2008-event, but this time with a 997-RSR that you can see at the beginning of this video, it is the overtaking Porsche with the yellow and green painting. The Getrag-Z4 did not participate at the 24-hour-race and the youtube-video is from a training-session in march.

Thanks to Frank Uhlig for correcting our information!

We hope you enjoy the racing action as much as we did

And the Youtube version, thanks to Eric.

As most of you might know by now, the BMW 3 Series Sedan facelift is just around the corner, and it's expected to be released within next six months. We won't be getting into all the details now, the subject has been covered extensively and please feel free to scan through the tons of information and photos that we posted in the last few months. 

Here are some of the popular articles:

BMW 3 Series Facelift 1

BMW 3 Series Facelift 2

BMW 3 Series Facelift 3

BMW 3 Series Facelift 4

Now, let's move on and focus on the latest photos of the E9x facelift version that was spotted in Munich this past weekend. This time, the touring version was the one photographed by the guys at Autobild and honestly, nothing has changed in compare to the previous photos. The front camouflage gets smaller and smaller, but the rear taillights are still heavily covered, but as we mentioned before, the facelift models will come with LED taillights.

Less than two weeks ago, we found out that BMW is planning on revealing the 3 Series Facelift models at the Paris Auto Show in October, so until then, let the spy photos game continue.

[Source: Autobild ]

Thanks to our contributor and friend, PalBay in Upstate SC. , we're able to show you some photos of BMW's plans to expand its U.S factory in the next years. Early last year, we learned that BMW is going to move the X3 production to the States and therefore, a larger plant was going to be needed.

Sources close to our friend Palbay also state that some of the BMW 3 Series and PAS models will be built in Spartanburg as well. 

In the first two photos, you can see the Paint Shop expansion, followed by the pictures of the Assembley Hall area. 

We will keep you updated on the expansion process.

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