{"id":14253,"date":"2022-11-29T09:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=14253"},"modified":"2022-11-29T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:12:37","slug":"remember-this-bmw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/blog\/remember-this-bmw\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember this BMW?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the Batmobile? \u00a0An absolute classic BMW that has been set in motoring history is the old BMW 3.0 CSL.\u00a0 Known as the Batmobile, the quick and very unique 3.0 CSL BMW Coupe was first manufactured around 1973.\u00a0 At that time, the car was raced in the European Touring Car Championship, which it won.\u00a0 In fact, the car was so good that it won the Championship for four years on the trot.<\/p>\n

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As a celebration, 50 years on from the release of the original Batmobile and as a 50 year celebration of their M division vehicles, BMW are making a very limited line of these brand new BMW 3.0 CSL Coupes that house the most powerful 6-cylinder engine BMW has ever produced for a road-legal vehicle.\u00a0 Only 50 of the cars will be made, making it an insanely rare vehicle on the road, while also ensuring that it won\u2019t be purchased cheaply.<\/p>\n

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The new BMW 3.0 CSL comes with a six-speed manual gearbox, RWD, and 412 Nm of power.\u00a0 The engine has been based on the sweet 3.0-litre twin-turbo engine that is used in the current BMW M4 CSL but with a lift in power.\u00a0 The BMW M4 can run through the 0-100 km\/h dash in a bit over four seconds, and the rare 3.0 CSL will likely better that.<\/p>\n

The latest Batmobile, like the M4 CSL, comes with only the two front seats and no back seats.\u00a0 The interior inside the BMW 3.0 CSL Coupe is similar to the M4 CSL\u2019s in structure and flow, yet there are plenty of special logos, detailing and design features to hark it back to the original.\u00a0 For instance, you\u2019ll notice the logos on the headrests and some new horizontal stripes on the backrests match the looks of the old 3.0 CSL.<\/p>\n

Out on the exterior is where you\u2019ll find the design and bodywork really harking back to the original version, so the pair of round intakes on the sides of the bumper were inspired by the classic CSL\u2019s design, so too were the vertical carbon fins that run down each side of the bonnet.\u00a0 And check out that chunky hindquarter where the rear wheel arches are beautifully flared and full, and sitting on top of the boot lid is a nice square spoiler to complete the stunning picture.\u00a0 The majority of the new car\u2019s bodywork will have been constructed from carbon-fibre reinforced plastic with plenty of the parts having been made by hand.<\/p>\n

A brand new BMW 3.0 CSL will be one of the rarest BMWs you can buy, and its also one of the most expensive.\u00a0 Pretty special though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the Batmobile? \u00a0An absolute classic BMW that has been set in motoring history is the old BMW 3.0 CSL.\u00a0 Known as the Batmobile, the quick and very unique 3.0 CSL BMW Coupe was first manufactured around 1973.\u00a0 At that time, the car was raced in the European Touring Car Championship, which it won.\u00a0 In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120,86,4048,5952,296,280],"tags":[7534,7532,2876,7527,7533,412,7528,7531,14,7529,7535,397,1433,2314,7530],"class_list":["post-14253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive-design","category-blog","category-european-cars","category-german-cars","category-history","category-motor-sport","tag-3-0-csl","tag-6-cylinder","tag-batmobile","tag-bmw-3-0-csl","tag-bmw-batmobile","tag-coupe","tag-m-division","tag-most-powerful-roadgoing-bmw-six-cylinder","tag-motorsport","tag-new-bmw-3-0-csl","tag-new-bmw-3-0-csl-coupe","tag-racing","tag-rwd","tag-six-cylinder","tag-twin-turbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14257,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions\/14257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}