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BMW Magazine

BMW Magazine DRIVEN#1
BMW
Magazine
Au tu m n/W inte r 2 012
Au tu m n/W i nte r 2 012 U K E d i t i o n
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Style: Fashioning the new BMW 7 Series
Action: In search of Europe’s best snow in the new BMW X1
Adventure: Across Morocco with the new BMW 3 Series Touring
Innovation: Welcoming carbon home
Editorial
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Managing Director, BMW (UK) Ltd
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BMW i: gallery of the future
This summer the first BMW i Store opened its doors on London’s
Park Lane. Everyone is welcome to step inside and discover the
new technology behind the agile and compact BMW i3 electric car,
and the efficient BMW i8 hybrid sports car, which will be launched
in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Up until then, both vehicles can be
seen on the BMW i Born Electric Tour, which stops off at seven cities around the world. Following the debut event in Rome, it will be
on the road until mid-2013 visiting Düsseldorf, Tokyo, New York,
London, Paris and Shanghai. For further information go to bmw-i.co.uk
Bella figura
Stretched bonnet, almost vertically sliced-off rear – the BMW
Zagato Coupé embodies sheer automotive perfection. The
world-renowned Milan-based coachbuilder Zagato, founded in
1919, took a BMW Z4 and turned it into an exclusive sports car,
custom-building the entire body by hand to create a sculpture.
It boasts materials of the highest quality as well as unusual details – such as the styling of the kidney grille with numerous
small, matt-sheen Zagato “z” letters making up the grating. Unlike the vast majority of concept vehicles, the BMW Zagato
Coupé is registered for use on the road. That’s because it was
designed to be driven. The only drawback: as a prototype, this
coupé is truly unique – and unfortunately not for sale.
Photo: Bernd Jonkmanns/laif
Welcome to the Autumn/Winter edition of BMW Magazine. In this issue, we have
introduced an exciting new look to reflect the energy and enthusiasm at the heart of
BMW. I look forward to hearing what you think of it.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce some news that will delight rugby fans: in
September, BMW announced a four-year partnership in which we became the Official
Vehicle Partner of England Rugby. By supporting England Rugby at a grassroots level,
BMW will help to identify the key players of tomorrow, and support their development
today – you can find out what it means for you as a fan from page 76. You can also read
an exclusive interview with rising England star and BMW rugby ambassador Owen
Farrell, who we took to Bedford Autodrome for an advanced driver training
session.
From page 88, we revisit a golden summer of sport for Great Britain, Team GB and
ParalympicsGB. We couldn’t be more proud of the BMW London 2012 Performance
Team: our souvenir section is a chance to relive just some of the many moments
that made London 2012 so special – and say a small thank you to the athletes who
made it happen.
Fans of the BMW 6 Series will want to turn directly to page 82 to see the Gran Coupé
in all its glory. A stunning machine both inside and out, we take it to the Costwolds and
the Daylesford organic farm in Kingham, where we discover the true meaning of
luxury. Driving around a beautiful part of the world in a beautifully made car is
motoring at its finest.
Further away from home, we put the all-electric BMW ActiveE to the test in one of the
world’s most driver-centric cities: Los Angeles. On page 38, we see how well it copes on
a single charge across town. Amid the skyscrapers and the star system, we discover a
burgeoning art scene that puts a new spin on a city we thought we knew so well. On the
other side of the country in New York, the artist Quetzal Saunders explains why he
feels so at home in the saddle of a 36-year-old BMW motorcycle (page 72).
Back in Europe, the skiing pro Roman Rohrmoser clocks up 26,523 miles in his BMW
X1 as he drives from Spain’s Sierra Nevada to the wilds of Norway in search of the best
snow (page 64). And at the edge of the Moroccan desert, we check out North Africa’s
answer to Hollywood in a BMW 3 Series Touring (page 48).
This is a globetrotting issue with much more to discover than there is the space to mention here. What all the stories have in common is that every mile we travel in this issue has
been covered with passion and joy. With our new look comes a new name – driven – that
sums up the ethos of the magazine and the ethos of BMW: to never stand still.
I wish you an enjoyable read.
Yours sincerely, Tim Abbott
Contents
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Stepping out in style
Next season’s most
elegant fashions – and the
new BMW 7 Series.
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Opener
Editorial
Introducing the new
BMW Magazine.
Plus BMW news from
around the globe.
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Art of the hour
Criss-crossing Los Angeles,
the new capital of art,
in the BMW ActiveE.
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A country on a roll
Over the High Atlas in
the new BMW 3 Series Touring
in search of Morocco’s
answer to Hollywood.
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People for our time
Thinkers, doers,
pop stars and pioneers:
10 people who
get things moving.
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Photos: cover: Erik Madigan Heck, Erin Valverde Pollard, Roderick Aichinger, Geoff Moore/Gallerystock.com (elephant), Peter Guenzel/Established and Sons (table) (clockwise); this page: Erik Madigan Heck (top), Roderick Aichinger (bottom)
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Inside
The driving force of
English rugby
The new four-year partnership
between BMW and the national
team, and an exclusive interview
with rising star Owen Farrell.
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IQ
A dozen chairs
to the kilo
The ultra-light material carbon is
revolutionising car construction
– and furniture design.
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Better way of life
Gloucestershire in the BMW 6
Series Gran Coupé.
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Heroes
Gold rush
How did Team GB do so well at
London 2012? Britain’s top sports
scientists explain.
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Forty years on
The long history between BMW
and electric cars.
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My BMW
Artist Quetzal Saunders
of the USA presents his
BMW R75/6.
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Rolled gold
The Golden BMWs that made
golden moments around the UK
this summer.
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Publication details
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Fuel consumption
a n d C O 2 e m i s s i o n s
figures
of the models in this
issue are listed on page 98.
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Photos: Christian Pondella; Bill Gentle/Jed Root; Mike Caine
Roman’s road
Snowbound with the
new BMW X1: freeskier
Roman Rohrmoser reveals
Europe’s top ski spots.
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Days of glory
Looking back at a summer of
sporting achievement.
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People
Entrepreneurs and activists, pop stars and architects, these
people are many things. What they have in common is that
they are all inspiring role models.
People
for
our time
“My aim is to ensure that
everyone finally gets access
to the internet.”
Photo: Paul Wetherell/The Gentlewoman
Martha Lane Fox, entrepreneur
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Martha Lane Fox, Britain’s most famous internet entrepreneur, has already
s urvived two crashes: the collapse of the dot-com bubble in 2000, when the value
of her website lastminute.com plummeted, and a serious car accident not long
afterwards. Since then the 39-year-old has had to use a walking stick, but she
refuses to let it get in her way. First, she became a director of Marks & Spencer,
then she founded a chain of karaoke bars, and most recently she became the
British government’s UK Digital Champion. She is currently focusing on her “Go
ON UK ” campaign, which aims to make the internet accessible for everybody
everywhere. Ten million people in Great Britain still have no internet access,
and Lane Fox believes that the elderly and socially disadvantaged in particular
could use the information and services available online to improve their lives.
Her favourite karaoke song? ‘I’m Still Standing’.
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People
“I find
the mainstream
inspiring.”
“I never tire
of the buzz.
As soon as
one auction is
wrapped up,
I move straight
on to the
next one.”
The length of his beard is justso and he wears his
hats like a crown. Every few
years, a king surfaces in
the French creative scene and,
before you know it, has the
hipster crowd worshipping at his
feet. But Yoann Lemoine,
aka Woodkid, also has the world
of entertainment queuing up at
his door. The filmmaker, musician
and photographer is famous for
filming pop diva Lana del Rey
flanked by two tigers in the video
for her song ‘Born to Die’, while
for Katy Perry and Rihanna he
created equally show-stopping
videos. This autumn, the
29-year-old will release the first
album of his own, The Golden
Age – an epic work that he
recorded with the Paris National
Orchestra. He is now
filming the entire album as a
complete audiovisual artwork.
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Photos: René Habermacher c/o brigitta-horvat.com; Dominik Gigler
Woodkid, video artist and musician
Cheyenne Westphal,
art specialist
Cheyenne Westphal is a seasoned “truffle hunter”. For 13
years, the German has headed the European division of London auction house Sotheby’s. Her hunting ground is contemporary art and she is constantly unearthing new or forgotten
works. Take the recently discovered Dürckheim Collection,
hitherto unknown, with works by Sigmar Polke and Gerhard
Richter. Westphal started as a Sotheby’s trainee in her early
twenties, cataloguing items in the basement. Now the
45-year-old engineers major art deals, is friends with the
likes of Damien Hirst, and is a leading authority on Richter.
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People
“The challenge for my generation:
achieving maximum
effect with minimal resources.”
Photo: Jennifer Robbins
Chris Lee, architect
A flash of inspiration led to the creation of Olympia Le-Tan’s new bag collection. The daughter of French illustrator Pierre Le-Tan, she uses the covers of
her favourite books as inspiration for her clutch bags. These handmade accessories started off as a niche product, but after Natalie Portman
turned up at the premiere of Black Swan with a clutch displaying the cover of Nabokov’s Lolita, Le-Tan was deluged with orders.
Her social circle includes film director Spike Jonze, Purple magazine founder Olivier Zahm, and designer Jean Touitou. Now the former Karl Lagerfeld
apprentice, who never studied fashion, has launched her first ready-to-wear collection with a “Bettie Page goes to the library” theme.
“Literature is
always a good source
of new ideas.
I grew up in a house
full of books.”
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As a boy he dreamt of being Spiderman; now he’s one of the
most innovative architects of his generation. “Young architects are building all over the world today,” says Lee. The
40-year-old knows what he’s talking about. Born in Malaysia,
Lee now lives mainly in Britain. His firm Serie Architects,
founded in 2007, has offices in Mumbai, London, Beijing and
Chengdu. Lee’s designs are informed by the rationality of
classical modernism, but also consistently exhibit sensitivity
to local conditions, architectural styles and requirements.
“Modernism isn’t that important to us as an architectural
style, but more as a theoretical framework; for us, architecture is conceived as a common framework to accommodate
plurality. I believe that’s the only way to foster true diversity.”
Lee is building a restaurant in Mumbai with a glass structure
supported by a forest of branching white steel columns. For
BMW, he designed the BMW Group Pavilion in the London
2012 Olympic Park, which created a truly stunning environment to exhibit some of the Group’s latest models. The idea
behind it: unifying the lightness of the BMW i design with the
classicism of an English garden pavilion. Mounted on a circular, four-metre-high waterfall, the display platform appears
suspended in midair. It is this embracing of experimentation
that makes his designs so spectacular: “Optimism and a readiness to experiment are things I’ve brought with me from
the Far East. We are able to look at architecture from a
brand-new perspective.”
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People
“We’re not scientists or
programmers. We’re architects.
And as architects, it is our role
to create the future.”
Chris Lasch and Benjamin Aranda, architects
Photo: Fendi/Daniele Venturelli
What do you expect from two architects who strap a camera to a pigeon, let it fly over New York and show the pictures on TV? Or who cite as their role model the photographer Wilson Bentley, who photographed thousands of
snowflakes in the 19th century? The answer is: everything. The projects dreamt up by New Yorkers Benjamin
Aranda (39) and Chris Lasch (40) might seem more like
art than architecture, though the two of them firmly reject this. They combine skilled handicraft with high-tech
methods and base their work on algorithms to create
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completely new structures. Since 2003, they have been
building installations and objects that can be viewed like
holograms, leading to invitations to the Biennale in Venice and earning them one architectural prize after another. For the work pictured here – a collaboration with the
Fendi fashion label called “Modern Primitives” – different-sized foam tetrahedrons were glued together to create an elaborate piece of sculptural furniture. The form
was generated by a computer and the objects themselves
were crafted by hand.
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“As long as I can spread joy
I’ll work on new projects, since that
is the point of my work.”
Photo: Camera Press/Steve Schofield
Shigeru Miyamoto, video game designer
A touch on the chubby side, of Italian-American descent
and sporting bright blue overalls, a red cap and an imposing black moustache, Super Mario – the world’s most famous plumber – has been saving Princess Peach from evil
villains for more than 25 years now. He is the brainchild of
the game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, head of the development department at Nintendo and a man who has, with
a tirelessness similar to that of his iconic plumber, become a legend in his own right. The creator of numerous
video-game classics, from Donkey Kong to The Legend of
Zelda, the 60-year-old has passed on his broad smile to his
best-known character. There may be no princesses wait-
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ing for Miyamoto, but instead he can delight in the Prince
of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities.
He was presented with the distinction this year, in
acknowledgment of his unique imagination and in recognition of having created a virtual world that delights millions of people around the globe, regardless of age, gender
or nationality – thereby helping to overcome ideological,
ethnic and geographical differences. Shigeru Miyamoto’s
other widely celebrated creation, the Nintendo DS games
console, can now boast another string to its bow: it goes
into service this year as a multimedia audio guide at the
Louvre in Paris.
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Photo: Marek Pietroń
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Still a relatively youthful 26, Michał Borowik hails from Poland, a country where for decades the market for contemporary art was practically non-existent.
His career, however, has been as impressively dynamic as his homeland’s economy: Borowik is one of the highest-profile collectors of contemporary art in Poland
today. While the oligarchs in neighbouring Ukraine and Russia have flocked to buy works by Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, Borowik has
always concentrated on Polish artists of his generation, such as Michał Gayer, Magdalena Starska, Gregor Różański and Michał Szuszkiewicz. His
collection in Warsaw – the eastern post of the De La Cruz Collection in Miami – is included in the BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors,
the world’s first book to provide an international overview of 173 private collections open to the public.
“I’m not interested in
the monetary value of my
collection, but rather
in how I can share it with
other people.”
Michał Borowik, art collector
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“Intelligence is the most
frequently overlooked resource
in poor countries.”
Photo: John Lee Pictures
Leila Janah, activist
In case you were wondering, Leila Janah doesn’t work in
the fashion industry. It’s just that she is frequently photographed, be it for Forbes or the Financial Times. In 2008,
the 29-year-old Harvard graduate founded the Samasource enterprise – and has since demonstrated how development aid can be turned into fruitful collaboration.
Rather than food or clothes, her organisation hands out
work. It outsources tasks to poor countries that can be
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carried out on a computer. Companies like Google and
LinkedIn upload projects to Janah’s online platform, and
her team then channels small tasks to jobseekers in refugee camps in Haiti or the needy in Rwanda. Following a
quality control stage, the research or data input is then
passed back to the company. The contributors around the
globe are given insurance and paid an appropriate fee for
the work they carry out.
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The new BMW 7 Series
This season’s fashion fuses sheer elegance
with a fresh desire for luxury.
It’s a dream combination – as the
new BMW 7 Series shows.
Photos
Erik Madigan Heck
Styling
Jane Garber
Stepping
out
in
style
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“Elegance is not
about being noticed, it’s about
being remembered.”
Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
Facing page:
Silk dress with leather bustier
and bolero jacket by f.rau.
Above:
Elegant luxury saloon:
the new BMW 7 Series.
Page 26:
Suit, tie and shirt by
Bottega Veneta, shoes
by Burberry London.
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Below:
Silk dress by Kaviar
Gauche, earrings and patent
pumps by Vintage.
“I love to drive. A car kind
of puts you under
a spell. I forget the world.”
Ryan Gosling, actor
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Suit by Made in
Berlin, shirt by
Bottega Veneta,
tie by COS.
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“There is a need for
a global language of effortless,
modern elegance.”
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Below:
Evening dress by Vintage.
Models: Tatjana M4 Models, Sébastien Success; hair and make-up: Markus Lambert; production Barcelona: Image Nation
Facing page:
Wool suit with waistcoat
and shirt by Herr von
Eden, bow tie by Hermès.
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Luxury doesn’t get more dynamic or efficient than this. Now in
its fifth generation, the new BMW 7 Series raises the bar once
again. No other model matches the elegance with which it combines luxury and comfort with supreme efficiency and dynamics.
A revised chassis with air suspension at the rear axle comes as
standard to deliver a palpable boost in comfort, whilst interior
highlights include newly designed seats trimmed in Dakota
leather. An extensive sound package is also available with the
option of the Bang & Olufsen Advanced audio system. Optional
Adaptive LED Headlights and a modified apron define the discreetly revised front end, while at the rear a delicate chrome strip
between the reflectors lends a stylish touch. Furthermore,
boasting the most efficient engines of its class and fuel savings
of up to 25% thanks to BMW EfficientDynamics technologies,
the new BMW 7 Series proves that efficiency and luxury are not
mutually exclusive. All details can be found at bmw.co.uk/7series
BMW 7 Series
“Form and function should be one,
joined in a spiritual union.”
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
740Li
Engine
six-cylinder in-line
Output kW (hp)
235 (320)
Torque Nm
450
Top speed mph
155
Acceleration 0–62 mph in s
5.7
Fuel consumption mpg
26.6 | 44.8 | 35.8
CO2 emissions g/km
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Photo: He & Me
urban | extra-urban | combined
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The BMW ActiveE
A weekend, a BMW ActiveE, and a mission
to explore Los Angeles – the world’s most
important artistic centre and a city without limits
– on a single battery charge.
Art of
the hour
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The BMW ActiveE
gleaming in the sunlight. It’s a warm day, hits from the
Beach Boys are seeping out from the background, Brian
Wilson smiles out from a picture on the wall, and in the
corner of the studio stands a collection of five surfboards.
This is how Los Angeles does art.
Strode and Wilder have not stumbled onto the local art
scene overnight. Strode, who has also had work displayed
in Berlin’s Neugerriemschneider gallery, has a penchant
for painting comic-style characters. The colours he uses
provide a mirror image of the city itself: over the top, garish, somewhat unnatural – signature LA. Chris Wilder
teaches at an art college and was a long-time collaborator
of Mike Kelley, a major local icon. Kelley took his own life
early this year, and friends and colleagues from the art
world have since built a memorial for him. “You should go
there,” says Wilder. “It’s in Mount Washington.”
Heading across Los Angeles now for the downtown area
of the city. The battery will decide whether I make it all
the way over there. Strode is no stranger to the problems
inherent in a city the size of LA. “My studio is here, but I
live in Silver Lake, on the other side of the city. And that
means an hour in the car every day – or more than that if
der the bonnet. But then I see the displays on the instrument panel fill with light, telling me the car is good to go.
I nudge the selector lever out of Park and give the accelerator a gentle prompt. Again the powertrain responds in silence, but now also with an impressive surge of power.
The BMW ActiveE is the perfect car for LA with its incredible distances and sprawling highways. It is both extremely environmentally-friendly – “ecoconscious” is the word
you’ll hear time and again, from the Hollywood Hills to
Silver Lake – and the ultimate must-have in America’s
hottest city.
Saturday ‧ 9.45 a.m.
Photo: Joe Schildhorn/bfa
Miles covered 10
Battery charge 95%
Ever since his star turn
at the US Pavilion for the
2011 Venice Biennale,
actor James Franco
(centre) has been a
darling of the art world.
Here he is joined for a
preview outside the
Museum of Contemporary Art with New York
artist Aaron Young and
fashion insider Laure
Heriard Dubreuil.
Words
Anne Philippi
Photos
Jory Cordy
We’re 100 percent. The blue bars light up in the display,
the battery is full to the brim, the BMW ActiveE is primed
and ready. Which is good, as I’m relying on the car to
whisk me this way and that across the city this weekend,
stopping by at its galleries and museums. The city in question is Los Angeles – the epitome of the car-dominated
metropolis, all vast highways and endless expanse. Nipping from one area to another can mean a good hour-anda-half at the wheel. The distances and traffic gnaw at the
driver’s nerves: perfect for an urban test of endurance.
How will the BMW ActiveE rise to the challenge?
Miles covered 0
Battery charge 100%
The morning sun lights up the tops of the palm trees lining Hollywood Boulevard and the BMW ActiveE awaits.
To my eyes it looks like a standard-issue BMW, inside as
well as out. A four-seater with a large boot, all controls
comfortably to hand. I press the starter button – to little
effect, it would appear; there is barely a whisper from un-
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Morning coffee at a diner, then on to Venice Boulevard.
The battery sends a fresh update to the display: with 45
minutes and 10 miles gone, it’s still at 95 percent. That’s
excellent news, given my plan to scour all of Los Angeles’
important art venues. Just a few years ago, this would
have meant just three or fours stops around town and the
majority of the afternoon to kill. Indeed, avant-garde artists like Mike Kelley, Raymond Pettibon, Paul McCarthy,
Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari always showed their
work in the same places. However, over the last five years
Los Angeles has grown into the new international hot
spot of the art world. New York gallery owners and art
networkers are coming here in droves, and new exhibitions are opening on an almost weekly basis at the MOCA
(Museum of Contemporary Art) and LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Artists, hipsters and Hollywood stars can often be seen in front of the same camera
lens. The prime example of this is Culver City, a suburb of
LA that is witnessing a steady stream of gallery openings.
The traditional Paris-New York axis is being usurped,
says a New York art dealer, by Berlin-Los Angeles.
Miles covered 11
Battery charge 94%
Venice Boulevard, and a left turn towards Santa Monica
Airport. The BMW is a delightfully easy steer. It displays
fine sporting instincts through the corners, before powering away effortlessly with the slightest dab of the accelerator. Barely 10 minutes later I’m at the workplace of artists Chris Wilder and Thaddeus Strode. Their workshop
in an old aircraft hangar looks out over the city’s private
aircraft airport, its small propeller-driven planes and jets
The author and
her BMW ActiveE
Anne Philippi has lived
in Los Angeles since
2009. She took the
BMW ActiveE on a tour
across LA for BMW
Magazine. The BMW
ActiveE is participating
in trials as part of the
series production
development programme for the BMW i3.
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The BMW ActiveE
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Inspired by Hollywood
legends: surfer and
a rtist Samantha Thomas
paints traditional
American landscapes
which look more like
contemporary street art.
“From my apartment
I can be on the
beach in two minutes
– and at my studio
in five.”
Samantha Thomas, artist
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The BMW ActiveE
the kids want to go to soccer practice.” Clearly, the BMW
ActiveE would make the ideal day-to-day companion for
an LA artist, with its ability to take 100 miles in its stride
on a single battery charge.
Saturday ‧ 2.00 p.m.
Miles covered 12
Battery charge 90%
Next stop: Culver City, 20 minutes from the airport – a
stone’s throw in Los Angeles terms. The battery is still
showing more or less full charge. The roads are clear, the
traffic easing up around lunchtime. I park up outside the
Blum & Poe gallery; I can leave the car here and walk. Not
that it is exactly normal to be going somewhere on foot in
LA – in fact, it feels most odd. People are staring at me
from inside their cars: “She must have a problem,” they’re
thinking. “Car broken down maybe…”
In Culver City, LA’s first real art mile has been taking
shape for some time now. At opening evenings you feel as
if you’re actually in Berlin or New York. The galleries are
almost lined up one next to another. I begin at Blum & Poe.
The spaces here are imposing, and pioneering Los Ange-
les art dealer Tim Blum looks as if he has his hands full.
His staff are pinned to their cell phones. Across the road
is Honor Fraser’s gallery. The erstwhile model adorned
the cover of Roxy Music’s More Than This sleeve, but
Honor’s days in front of the camera are past. She possesses a hearty handshake and a British accent, and is wearing
dark-coloured trousers and glasses. All her energies now
go into the gallery, one of the city’s most important.
A few houses further down the street is the small, hiddenaway Mandrake Bar. This is where the art scene party
moves on to once the exhibition-opening affairs are done.
Next up is Samantha Thomas, whom you’ll only find in
her studio once she’s surfed a few morning waves off Venice Beach.
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Battery charge 75%
Top: the BMW ActiveE
outside the
Regen Gallery.
Left: artist Chris Wilder
in his studio.
Right page:
Miss Mao Trying to
Poise Herself at the Top
of Lenin’s Head.
The art tour across LA
takes a rewarding detour to see this
imposing sculpture by
the Gao Brothers
outside the Ace Museum
in West Hollywood.
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With the battery display showing 75 percent, I head for
West Hollywood – six miles from Culver City. It’s clearly
not a huge distance, but it does head up into the hills. One
of the benefits of an electric drive system is the instant acceleration it puts at your disposal. And that turns the ride
through the hills of LA into an experience within an experience, as it were. “Here the art world is growing and
thriving – and if something is making waves in Los Angeles, the movers and shakers in Hollywood soon sit up and
take notice,” says Martha Otero, a gallery owner on Fairfax Avenue. She is cut short by her dog Ursa, who is in urgent need of a walk and seizes the chance to give the BMW
ActiveE a curious sniff as we say goodbye.
Dusk has crept up on me and my first day is almost at an
end. I’ve packed in 15 visits, and the battery is still showing more than 60 percent charge. I turn the motor off,
climb out and lock the car. Our work today is done.
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the home of street art – as epitomised by JR, whose graffiti can be found on old industrial units adjacent to the
Wurstküche. Street art legend Banksy is also a regular visitor to these walls. JR shows me his most important work
from the car. We drive around the buildings, stopping here
and there outside factory halls and deserted sidewalks. “I
don’t really care whether Los Angeles is becoming an important art city like Paris or Berlin,” he says. “I just like
this city because it gives me a huge amount of space to develop what I do.”
Downtown tells you a lot about Los Angeles in 2012, the
emphasis on community, on neighbourhoods. The size of
the city as a whole encourages people to take a particular
interest in their own districts – and in making them what
they want them to be.
Easy fuelling:
a convenient charging
system allows the
BMW ActiveE to be
brought back up to full
operational charge in
four to five hours.
Drivers can also use a
network of public
charging stations.
The BMW ActiveE
Sunday ‧ 3.00 p.m.
This electrically-powered four-seater based on the BMW 1 Series
Coupé is the next step on the road to emission-free mobility of the
future. The electric motor generates 125 kW and accelerates the
car from 0-62 mph in 9 seconds. 250 Nm of torque comes on
stream from the word go, providing hallmark BMW dynamics. Key
styling cues that set the white BMW ActiveE apart from its stablemates are the subtle bulge in the bonnet and the unbroken rear
apron. Slim 16-inch tyres with low rolling resistance also single it
out as an electric car. More than 1,000 BMW ActiveE prototypes
are being tested around the world, which included at the London
2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as part of the development
bmw.co.uk/activee
programme for the upcoming BMW i3.
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Artist Catherine Opie lives in downtown Los Angeles. Her new series
of photos focuses on Elizabeth Taylor’s wardrobe.
Sunday ‧ 10.00 a.m.
Miles covered 27
Battery charge 65%
If conditions allow, the BMW ActiveE can rack up 100
miles without needing to top up on electricity. Less clear
is how things pan out if you’re stopping and starting the
car every 10 minutes or sitting in a tailback for hours on
end. I drive on to the Regen Projects, whose owner Shaun
Regen has been crowned queen of the new art city. The
battery tells me the journey to the gallery on Almont
Drive will require only two percent of its charge. Regen
shows work from a full suite of art superstars; Raymond
Pettibon, Daniel Richter and Wolfgang Tillmans are all
here. I invest another two percent to stop by at Larry Gagosian’s in Beverly Hills. If Shaun is the queen of the art
city, then Larry is its king. He’s currently hosting an exhibition of work by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, the opening of
which was – true to form – attended by half the Oscars
guest list.
Time now to head for downtown LA, stopping at Catherine Opie’s gallery on the way. Opie is currently working
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Galleries
in LA
Regen Projects
633 N. Almont Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Tel. +1 310 2765424
Gagosian
456 N. Camden Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Tel. +1 310 2719400
Blum & Poe
2727 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Tel. +1 310 8362062
Honor Fraser
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Tel. +1 310 8370191
Martha Otero
820 N. Fairfax Avenue
Tel. +1 323 9511068
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on a homage to Elizabeth Taylor. In her own inimitable
style, she has compiled a photographic documentary of
the actress’s legendary wardrobe. The artist is also a professor at the University of California and loves to capture
characteristic images of her city – surfers, football players,
freeways… From Catherine’s place I take 6th Street east.
Downtown has a similar vibe to Culver City. It too is a
trendy, up-and-coming neighbourhood, full of loft spaces,
industrial buildings and dilapidated factories, and you’d
still avoid certain areas after dark. But a fresh new art
community is also starting to bud here, made up of far
more than galleries alone.
A case in point is Handsome Cafe, run by two coffee-loving
hipsters on the corner of 6th Street and Mateo. It’s a favourite haunt for the area’s art scene, and police officers
also like to drop by for a good afternoon coffee. On nearby
Traction Avenue is a café called Wurstküche, beloved of
sausage gourmets far and wide. Its speciality is a rabbit
and rattlesnake creation. Next door is Common Gallery, a
stylish charity clothes shop run by three young downtown
denizens with preppy hair. Pretty much the rest of the
neighbourhood has been colonised by art. Downtown is
It’s afternoon already, but I might still make it to Mike
Kelley’s memorial in Mount Washington. However, before that I have to dash over to MOCA, home to classic California in the form of Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Dennis
Hopper and co. Stars such as Peter Fonda and Diane Keaton stroll through the rooms at exhibition openings, and
during the annual MOCA Gala in November you have to
remind yourself you’re at an art festival, not a film premiere, as Gwen Stefani, Hedi Slimane, Nicole Richie and
Anthony Kiedis rub shoulders. Credit here must go to
MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, who doesn’t see why actors cannot also be artists. Deitch is currently planning a
show with actor and artist James Franco.
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Output kW (hp)
Torque Nm
Top speed mph
Range (approx.) miles
125 (170)
250
90
100
Sunday ‧ 7.00 p.m.
Miles covered 89
Battery charge 25%
I head for Mount Washington and the Mike Kelley memorial. Out on the Hollywood Freeway I accelerate up to the
permitted 70 mph in what feels like five seconds, enjoying
the gifts of the electric drivetrain for the final time, as it
would turn out. Lying in wait is a long overdue LA tailback.
My foot lifts off the accelerator as I draw quickly to a halt,
the car’s Brake Energy Regeneration making its presence
felt. The battery, however, is still not drained.
I’ve driven 89 miles in just under two days, and the battery
has 25 percent of its charge still to give. That should be
more than enough to get me to Kelley’s place, followed tomorrow by a trip to Malibu Beach.
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The new BMW 3 Series Touring
A country on a roll
As more and more directors and producers are rapidly
discovering, Morocco is a filmmaker’s dream. A road trip in
the new BMW 3 Series Touring takes BMW Magazine from
Marrakech across the High Atlas to Ouarzazate,
North Africa’s answer to Hollywood.
Photos
Roderick Aichinger
Words
Philipp Schwenke
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“Our landscapes are magnificent. We can also make them
stand in for any other place in the world.”
Zak Alaoui, film producer
Film producer Omar Driouche commutes weekly between
the desert and Marrakech. Each trip over the High Atlas takes him
to elevations of nearly 1,500 metres.
Facing page: Gateway to the souk, Marrakech’s compact
old city. The place is buzzing with mopeds, bikes, pedestrians
and, amidst it all, the new BMW 3 Series Touring.
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From the south, straight out of the desert, a hot wind
blows its way up the mountains. Tugging on bare bushes
and craggy peaks, it whistles past the cliffs of a steep valley before abruptly halting at a green wall, an oasis. Deep
green along the course of a minuscule river, next to it a
small village of mud-plastered houses. Signs with oriental-looking lettering are mounted above the doorways.
Over in the village square, the towering portrait of a dictator keeps a watchful eye over his subjects. Which at the
moment consists of two donkeys.
What country is this exactly? The GPS coordinates say
that we’re in Morocco, about 125 miles east of Marrakech.
But the screenplay says this village lies in a fictitious, very
bizarre country in central Asia, a country so little-known
and remote that its dictator has a dramatic plot up his
sleeve in order to finally attract a bit of attention.
It’s a French comedy – one of dozens of movies filmed every year in Morocco. Most of them are made in this area, in
and around the small city of Ouarzazate, the Hollywood of
Morocco. Meanwhile, the country also produces its own
films, of sufficient quantity and quality to number among
its main exports. International film productions spend
more than 50 million euros a year in Morocco making the
likes of Gladiator, Inception and The Bourne Ultimatum.
Today, a trip through Morocco is like a tour through the
history of contemporary cinema.
Whether one chooses to randomly stumble upon famed
movie backdrops or purposefully seek them out, there are
certainly enough to choose from. But experiencing movieland Morocco in the most spectacular way possible requires a car. Our trip begins in Marrakech, the unique city
at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, which since the 1960s
has been a magnet for fashion designers and creative people from all over the world. Yves Saint Laurent lived here
on and off, Rolling Stone Keith Richards used to hang out
here in the 70s.
From Marrakech, we’ll head due east on highway N9: first
up into the Atlas, then straight into the desert. On this
route we’ll meet people who can erect an ancient Egyptian temple or Jerusalem’s Old City in the middle of the
desert in no time at all, all the while explaining to us why
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making. Another: “The government supports it to the
hilt,” he adds. Foreign production companies don’t pay
any sales tax in Morocco, for one thing. The government
does have a censorship bureau, but they generally read
scripts in less than a week and swiftly issue filming permits. If someone needs help from the military for a film,
they get it within 10 days, and for a laughable fee. But are
these the only reasons why major stars and directors keep
making the trek to this country? As so often, the real reasons are best uncovered on the open road.
From Marrakech, the N9 makes its way a few miles
through flat, arid terrain. Suddenly the ground transforms into hills, steppe becomes grassland, fields turn into mountains, and the asphalt is nestling against sheer
slopes. Massive trucks wheeze their way up hairpin turns
at a snail’s pace. The villages cluster tightly against the
highway. Between them, panoramas open up at regular
intervals, as spectacularly beautiful as any computer-generated backdrop; views of magnificent peaks scrape the
steely blue heavens at 3,000 metres and over. “Our landscapes can represent almost any other place in the world,”
maintains Alaoui. Morocco has already convincingly
stood in for the Roman Empire and Afghanistan.
Morocco, in particular, has turned into a creative mecca.
Our trip will end in the same oasis where the donkeys are
nibbling on straw beneath the dictator’s portrait. But it
starts on a sweltering afternoon in Marrakech’s business
district, in the offices of Zak Alaoui.
The producer is a diminutive man in his mid-fifties, sitting at a desk the size of a truck. Photos of Hollywood
stars grace the walls, taken during assorted co-productions. Few other Moroccan names show up in the credits
of Hollywood films as often as Alaoui’s. For a Jackie Chan
film once, Alaoui shipped an entire sand dune to Hong
Kong in 20 containers. “Sometimes you first have to let
foreign producers know that they haven’t ended up in
some sort of no man’s land here,” he says. During one production, for example, an ambulance was needed at the
ready because they were filming stunts and special effects.
A producer from the US asked where exactly the ambulance would drive to if they had to use it. “She thought
that when somebody gets hurt here, we just shove them
into the nearest car and whisk them off to the village
quack.” Alaoui laughs. In fact, this country boasts a firstclass infrastructure. That’s just one of the reasons why
Morocco has become such an important centre for film-
At the outset of the trip in Marrakech: the new BMW 3 Series Touring at the
Djemaa el-Fna marketplace in the centre of Morocco’s fourth-largest city.
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Above left: Morocco boasts ideal backdrops for historical films. Here, for
example, an inner courtyard in the Glaoui Kasbah in Telouet.
Above right: Hajar Limouri belongs to a new generation of Moroccan filmmakers. Rather than moving to France like many of her compatriots,
the producer is forging her career in Morocco’s version of Hollywood.
Beyond Toufliht, at the 50-mile mark, the road starts
climbing along a mountain ridge with sheer 500-metre
drops to either side. The ascent ends at 2,260 metres, the
highest point of the Tizi N’Tichka Pass. This area was featured in the Brad Pitt film Babel. The Himalayas start just
half an hour away: Martin Scorsese made Kundun, his film
about the Dalai Lama, here as well.
Shortly afterwards the mountains come to an abrupt halt,
and the landscape once again turns barren. At the
102-mile mark in Amerzgane, we turn off the asphalt onto a dirt road that becomes less and less road-like with
each passing metre. It feels as if we’re inside a futuristic
Mars probe, gingerly feeling its way across the red planet’s surface. It’s a vast emptiness, in which one wouldn’t
relish getting lost. Suddenly we crest a hill and a steamroller appears, along with a bulldozer and five men standing in front of a levelled stretch of dusty desert. Workers
point to the ground, bantering. It’s time for Omar Driouche to make a decision. The 43-year-old used to be a
banker, but not being fond of either ties or offices, he began working as a driver for film productions in the 1990s.
He has since helped organise untold numbers of American productions. During the filming of The Lord of the
Rings he even moved to New Zealand for a few months.
His current project is the aforementioned French come-
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Riad El Fenn
The perfect riad (traditional Moroccan house
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dy involving the dictator. “The ground is cracking,” observes Driouche. His team is charged with creating a
100-metre-long stretch of level runway, intended to represent an airport. A model of a Boeing airliner is supposed
to take off here and, to make it look real, the asphalt has to
be smooth and faultless enough so that, when enlarged, it
doesn’t look like a cratered parking lot. But the runway
bed is starting to crack. There’s no choice but to try a different location, but Omar is positive they’ll be able to get
it done. “The reason,” he explains, “why so many international films get made here is we have the best crews. We
can build anything.” Back in the 1980s, foreign productions often brought 80 percent of their crew along with
them. Today the situation is reversed: 80 percent of the
crew are local, from electricians to make-up artists. “Only the directors and actors come from Hollywood, we do
everything else.” These days, Morocco even boasts several film schools, including one in Ouarzazate. Vanessa
Branson has been organising the Marrakech Biennale – a
combined art and film festival – since 2005. She says: “For
a long time there wasn’t any sort of homegrown film scene
in Morocco; the country was purely a location for outside
productions. That’s changing very fast right now.” Omar
belongs to an older generation of professionals who learnt
their trade on set. “That’s the best school,” he avers.
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Left: Mountain ride: the tallest
peaks in the High Atlas reach over
4,000 metres – high enough to
represent the Himalayas.
Below: Lamya Ouchari is a young
camera operator and sound effects
s pecialist who studied at the
Film Institute in Ouarzazate.
“Morocco has many
advantages to offer
Hollywood
productions: perfect
light, low prices,
and nowadays highlyqualified crew
members as well.”
Omar Driouche,
producer
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Ouarzazate, Texas: teatime on the set of a horror movie, for which a mock American
gasoline station was created in the middle of the desert.
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Back on the N9, it’s less than 10 minutes to Aït-ben-Haddou, the labyrinthine historic city centre with its crookedly worn staircases and steep alleyways nestling tightly
against a mountainside. Every travel guide in existence
waxes eloquent about the beauty of this kasbah. Film directors love its venerable walls. Millions of people have
seen them already – without ever setting foot in them – in
The Living Daylights or The Mummy, to name two.
It’s another half an hour to Ouarzazate. At one time this
city was a minor outpost on the outskirts of the Sahara.
The first films were made here in the 1960s. Nowadays
statues of ancient Egyptian deities greet visitors. They
keep watch outside the film studios on the N9, in front of
massive Egyptian temples and ancient slave markets. The
most vital construction materials here: scaffolding, bamboo poles, and foam that’s always oozing out where the
cameras are never pointing. But it’s not just huge Hollywood productions that get made here: television productions for TV channels like the BBC also make up a significant portion of the Moroccan film market.
Amine Tazi Hemida is a studio head who sees other reasons behind Morocco’s success as a filmmaking centre:
“This is a tolerant country.” Sex and the City 2, for example,
was supposed to be filmed in Dubai. “But they couldn’t get
a permit, just because of the title, for starters.”
Not all that long ago, Morocco produced around five, possibly six homegrown films a year. That figure has since increased to an average of 25. The country’s governmentsponsored film subsidy programme supports up to a dozen native Moroccan productions annually, spending an
average of half a million dollars per film – five times more
than it did just a few years ago. Morocco’s film industry is
brimming with a new, improved sense of self-confidence.
Its directors are increasingly sure of themselves. Foul language, sex and violence have been an essential element of
American films for a long time, but films like Casanegra, a
drama about Casablanca’s darker side, have smashed an
even more pervasive taboo: portraying Moroccan society
in all its – potentially unflattering – glory.
We’ve reached our journey’s final stage. From Ouarzazate
we take the car another 12 miles up into the mountains, to
the tiny village with the portrait of the dictator keeping an
eye on the donkeys. Hamid Herraf is the producer on this
project, and now, with everything finally ready for the
start of shooting, he’s already thinking about his next project. “We can make some pretty good films in Morocco
these days,” he says. He’s just started work on an animated 3D film in Casablanca, in Disney-Pixar style. “We’ll
see,” he says. “I’m sure we can make that kind of film too.”
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O u a r z a z a t e :
highlights
Tizi N’Tichka
At 2,260 metres, the Tizi
N’Tichka pass is the
highest in North Africa,
featuring majestic panoramas of and over the
surrounding High Atlas.
Te l o u e t
One of the region’s most
magnificent kasbahs
(traditional fortresses),
built by order of the Pasha
of Marrakech.
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Aït-Ben-Haddou
A ksar (fortified village)
at the foot of the
mountains: famed film
backdrop and UNESCO
World Heritage Site.
Film studios
How about a quick side
trip to Jerusalem or
Egypt? Impressive historical sets are on display at
the Atlas and CLA film
studios on the outskirts of
Ouarzazate.
Ta o u r i r t
One of the largest kasbahs
in the country and the
ideal end point for
our trip: the balcony of the
village café is a
good place to take in a
gorgeous sunset.
The new BMW 3 Series Touring catches the eye with its dynamic
front-end design, headlined by slim headlights reaching around as
far as the kidney grille. The sweeping roof line extending well back
towards the rear underlines the car’s sporting elegance. Inside, the
new BMW 3 Series Touring offers more space than its predecessor,
and even greater versatility. However, the Touring’s trump card
comes in the form of its 495-litre boot, complete with extremely
flexible loading options. For example, with 40:20:40 split folding
rear seats as standard, the Touring comes up with the right answer
to any question asked of it. The optional Comfort Access, meanwhile, allows the driver to open the tailgate without touching it
when hands are full. All model variants are powered by BMW TwinPower Turbo engines that boast higher output yet also lower fuel
consumption. In addition, the Drive Performance Control with ECO
PRO mode, which comes as standard, has a unique feature in this
segment, allowing even greater improvements in fuel economy. bmw.co.uk/3seriestouring
B M W 3 S e r i e s To u r i n g
Engine
Output kW (hp)
330d
190 (258)
Torque Nm
560
Top speed mph
155
Acceleration 0-62 mph in s
5.6
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CO2 emissions g/km
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Carbon
Driade
Designed in 2009 by
Philippe Starck for the
Driade manufacturing
company, the “Oscar
Bon” chair weighs just
800 grams. Whether it
occupies the living
room or balcony is up
to the owner: carbon is
weather-resistant.
A dozen chairs
to the kilo
Carbon’s domestic footprint: the lightweight material is
revolutionising car manufacturing and fascinating furniture designers as well.
Its sinewy f ibres enable extraordinary designs.
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“Surface Table” is the
product of a collaboration between designer
Terence Woodgate and
John Barnard, a race
car designer and carbon expert. At a length
of three metres, the
tabletop measures
precisely two millimetres in thickness.
That’s enough to
support 500 kilograms
– the weight of a small
elephant.
Photo: Geoff Moore/Gallerystock.com (elephant), Peter Guenzel/Established & Sons (table)
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Lena Bergmann
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& Sons
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Carbon
Zanotta
Airy recliner: thanks to
its carbon-fibre frame,
Mark Robson’s “Fly”
weighs barely two
kilograms – at a length
of 1.80 metres.
“Every designer will be
tempted by this
material eventually.”
Konstantin Grcic, designer
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Carbon
Galerie kreo
Carbon
It all starts with polyacrylnitrile synthetic
fibres, which are heated
to 1,300°C to create
carbon fibres each
almost 10 times thinner
than a human hair.
These black fibres are
worked into two-dimensional textile-like cloth,
soaked in resin and
then cured into threedimensional components for use in anything from cars to
racing wheels to furniture. This carbon fibrereinforced plastic
( CFRP) is around a third
lighter than aluminium.
Marc Newson
On the ascent: Marc
Newson’s 2.1 kilogram
‘Carbon Ladder’ was
manufactured in an
18-piece limited edition
by Galerie kreo in Paris.
Each of the ladder’s
rungs can support as
much as 100 kilograms
in weight.
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Mark Robson emphasise carbon’s sculpture-like qualities
and abandon conventional furniture designs. Others, like
Philippe Starck or Konstantin Grcic, celebrate classic silhouettes and highlight carbon’s novel surface properties.
“Every designer will be tempted by this material eventually,” says German designer Grcic. Technology buffs love its
associations with aeronautics and racing cars, while others are mesmerised by carbon’s unexpected sensuality.
“The gleaming fibres give its deep ebony hue a stringent,
almost otherworldly quality,” says Grcic. Danish designer
Henrik Pedersen raves about the material’s characteristic
matt surfaces: “Carbon can actually be a very sensual material. It appears austere, yet somehow also organic and
soft. A carbon product can sometimes feel almost like porcelain to the touch and exude a genial warmth.”
So why has carbon-fibre furniture never been mass-produced? Carbon is pricey, the manufacturing process too
elaborate. The actual quantities of carbon furniture ordered have remained small, far from generating economies of scale. In fact, mass production may not be a desirable goal at all, according to product designer Terence
Woodgate. “There is a distinct tendency to employ carbon
in a purely decorative sense, as an attractive surface. But
I think its considerable allure simply vanishes if the particular shape chosen fails to effectively highlight the material’s unique properties.”
“Designers also tend to lack the necessary engineering
know-how,” says Grcic, who collaborated with a technological advisor on his “KARBON long chair”. “The material itself enables certain freedoms in the design process
which needed to be explained to me initially. Carbon fascinated me – I just didn’t know enough about it.”
Woodgate’s “Surface Table” is also the product of a collaboration, in this case with race car designer and carbon pioneer John Barnard. Reaching lengths of up to six metres,
gleaming black and balanced atop four delicate legs, the
table is already considered a contemporary design icon –
just four years after its premiere at the Milan furniture
fair. Like very long strands of fine hair, carbon fibres extend along the table’s length in an infinitesimal array of
delicate lines. Just two millimetres in thickness, the
tabletop’s load-bearing capacity at a length of three metres is an astounding 500 kilograms.
Konstantin Grcic has no doubts: “Carbon is still in the experimental phase. Its applications will remain exclusive
for the time being, but in the long term some of its salient
features will percolate down to the broader furniture industry, much like the way car racing has often provided
important innovations for the motor industry as a whole.”
Firm, yet flexible:
the “Bait” lamp,
designed by Henrik
Pedersen. The height
of the suspended
lamp can be adjusted
by sliding a weight
mounted on
the lamp’s delicate
carbon-fibre
support stem.
Photos: Fabrice GOUSSET/Courtesy Galerie kreo
A chair may always be a chair, but must it have four legs?
The same unchanging, age-old symmetry? No way, says
Mark Robson: “Our everyday habits have changed so
much that conventional furniture designs often strike me
as no longer appropriate.” So a decade ago the British designer created the “Fly”, an undulating seat with no legs.
Measuring 1.80 metres in length, its carbon-fibre frame
keeps its weight at a svelte two kilos. Carbon fibre had finally arrived in the furniture industry.
It was an arduous journey: Italian designer Alberto Meda
was experimenting with carbon fibres as far back as the
mid-1980s. His “Light Light” and “SoftLight” chairs were
among the first-ever pieces of carbon-fibre furniture. But
nothing else followed for a long time. The mass production taking hold in other areas – tennis rackets, bicycle
frames and accessories have been made from carbon fibre
for years – never found its way into the furniture industry.
Spectacular designs have repeatedly surfaced since, but
only in limited editions. Designers like Alvaro Uribe and
Only 12 examples of
Konstantin Grcic’s
“KARBON long chair”
have ever been manufactured. Grcic on the
limited edition: “The
design was dictated
by the possibilities
inherent in the material.
Its aesthetic derives
directly from that.”
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The new BMW X1
Every winter, professional freeskier
Roman Rohrmoser takes off across Europe in his
BMW X1 – in search of the best snow, the
steepest mountains and the most enjoyable places to ski.
Read on for his recommendations.
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Jan Kirsten Biener
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Photo: Michael Neumann
Roman’s
Night skiing,
Norwegian style:
Rohrmoser makes
tracks through
the Lyngen Alps
– at 1.00 a.m.
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The new BMW X1
St Moritz — Switzerland
Up to
1,200 metres vertical descent
“One of the all-time classics, in the heart of the
Alps and surrounded by towering peaks offering outstanding ski areas, including Piz Corvatsch and Diavolezza at the foot of the
3,900-metre Piz Palü, and the often ignored
Lagalp.
Each area offers incredibly good freeskiing,
handily beyond the radar of St Moritz’s usual
crowd, whose eyes are drawn to the town’s
shopping facilities and champagne bars.
That’s the great thing about the Engadine:
there are very few freeriders here, and slopes
packed with virgin snow are often left untracked for a week or more. Another sound
reason for a stop-off at St Moritz is the journey up to the resort, which is spectacular. You
can either take the Julier Pass, drive through
the Lower Engadine or nip over the Bernina
Pass. And while other ski areas only offer really good snow in mid-winter before the sun
starts turning the white stuff to mush, the
conditions in St Moritz are never short of excellent. Valley stations almost 2,000 metres
above sea level tell their own story.
My personal highlight is the glacier tour from
Diavolezza down to where the train stops, and
then back by train to the valley. It’s one of the
longest and most beguiling runs in the whole
of Switzerland.”
BMW and
Best of the Alps
BMW has sealed an Official Partnership with 12 of the Alps’ classic high-end tourist destinations
– from Garmisch to St Moritz,
Megève to Davos. The Classic
Mountain Resorts formed an
alliance more than 20 years ago,
and now BMW has become part of
this success story.
For more information go to
bmw-xdrive-guide.com
Courchevel — France
Ly n g e n — N o r w a y
Up to
“Norway is always worth a road trip – even in
winter. The small town of Hemsedal, nestling
between fjord and fjell north of Oslo, is widely considered Scandinavia’s premier ski area.
It is an extremely modern resort, with rapid
chairlifts and guaranteed snow until May.
However, if it’s real adventure you’re after,
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“Despite its famous name, this haven for the
rich and famous in the French Alps is often
overlooked by freeriders; you’d almost call it a
trade secret among thrill-seeking skiers.
Knowing that Courchevel’s airport is located
at 2,007 metres and the landing strip is only a
few hundred metres long makes it a no-brainer for me: driving up in my BMW X1 is most
you’ll be heading further north, past the Lo- definitely a more comfortable and pleasant
foten Islands, past Tromsø and on to the
way to get there. Courchevel is part of the
Lyngsalpene (Lyngen Alps). There are no lifts
Trois Vallées, one of the largest ski areas in
here, but you will find the wonderful Lyngen
the Alps. Visitors can explore hundreds of kilLodge – and beyond, the most spectacular ski
ometres of prepared pistes and countless lifts,
touring in Europe. You take a boat to the start
mountain restaurants and hotels. It’s worth
of the tour and begin every trip at sea level – getting yourself a guide, if only so you can find
under the midnight sun, should you so wish. your way back to the hotel in the evening! I’ve
But watch out for the homemade schnapps:
got lost in Courchevel many times.”
the locals are always happy to ply you with a
glass or two, and if you’re not careful you’ll
soon be seeing stars.”
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen —
Germany
Up to
“Early last December a friend and I bombed
down the Kandahar World Cup run in
Garmisch what must have been a dozen times,
one after the other, to find out whose legs
would turn to jelly first. As well as being a
great deal of fun, flying down the marked
slopes at full pelt always serves as good preparation for the season before the snow has
had a chance to build up off-piste. However,
when there’s a good dumping of fresh snow –
and that’s not uncommon in Garmisch, given
its Alpine location – the Alpspitze and Zugspitzplatt offer some great routes on which to
hone your skills. You quickly forget that this
is Germany’s highest mountain (although,
when you look at the map, half of it is actually
located in Austria!). The powder runs down
the Alpspitze are short and very sweet, the
higher-altitude challenges of the Zugspitze
long and rugged. I always associate Garmisch
with relaxed spring skiing on the Zugspitze
and the enticing après-ski burgers in the
Hausberglodge.”
Dolomites — Italy
The Val Mezdi in the
Sella Massiv area
can be explored on skis,
a ssuming you have a
guide and are kitted out
with the right gear.
“Bella Italia! Or should that be beautiful
South Tyrol? Here, every day’s skiing begins
with a perfect espresso at the middle station.
Formalities complete, Cortina d’Ampezzo,
Alta Badia and Arabba all offer something
for everyone, from the vast expanses of the
beginners’ pistes to steep 55-degree gullies
cutting several hundred metres down into
the fissured Dolomite rock.
I was here two years ago to make a ski film.
With skins on the undersides of our skis to
help us climb, we were able to make good
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progress right next to the marked piste; indeed, many classic routes can be seen from
the lifts. Exploring the others is best done
with a guide, as they can be dotted with
gullies and ridges that end with rappelling
points or high rock faces. One of these is Val
Mezdi, one of the classic off-piste routes in
the Dolomites. Once your day’s skiing is in
the can, I would recommend a glass of red
wine at the Rifugio Pomedes. This mountain
hut poised above Cortina offers views few
others can match.”
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Roman Rohrmoser was born 27 years
ago in the Zillertal valley, so he
had no excuse but to strap on his skis
at the earliest opportunity.
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Kranjska Gora — Slovenia
Up to
700 metres vertical descent
“This family ski area can be found in the far
northwest of Slovenia, just a few minutes’
drive from the Austrian town of Villach on
one side and the border with Italy on another.
It may be relatively low-lying, but Kranjska
Gora has one or two very cool forest runs and
often gets dumpings of snow when low pres-
sure presses up against the Alps from the
south. I was there in early January, when a depression over the Adriatic deposited over 1.5
metres of powder on the area overnight; the
next two days were pretty awesome! Another
plus point is the lift pass – you’ll struggle to
find one costing less anywhere in the Alps.”
The new BMW X1
Sierra Nevada — Spain
Up to
“Just the drive down to the Sierra Nevada –
western Europe’s southernmost ski area – is
insane. First you follow the western Alps to
the French border, then it’s straight through
France, down past Barcelona and Valencia
and on to Granada, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. The ski area is perched 3,482 metres up
on a massive lump of rock rising from the surrounding plains. Yet, despite its southerly latitude, the snow sticks around until April. You
need a spot of good fortune, however, to catch
some decent powder here. The climate tends
to produce fairly wet snow; even in December
the sun’s rays are strong, and they quickly get
to work on the new snow. When the weather’s
fine, though, you can see as far as the Mediterranean coast, and on really clear days north
Africa comes into view. So if the snow isn’t
particularly good, you can be on the beach in
no time, swapping skis for surfboard. Or you
could always drive up to Hemsedal; it’s only
2,240 miles from Europe’s most southerly ski
area to its most northern!”
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The new BMW X1 now mirrors the style of larger
BMW X models, complete with modified headlights
and a more prominent front apron. Meanwhile, two
additional trim levels – xLine and Sport – allow owners to add individual touches according to taste. The
interior is adorned with impressively high-grade materials and stylish details. And the driver can also
look forward to leading performance and efficiency
figures, thanks not least to an optional eight-speed
automatic transmission and BMW TwinPower Turbo
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engine. Zillertal — Austria
Up to
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“This is where I was born 27 years ago, where I
grew up and where I learnt to ski when I was
two. I went on to spend a decade as a ski racer,
before getting involved in the Mayrhofen fun
park, one of the largest in Europe. Nowadays
I spend each winter discovering new things in
the backcountry. In Zillertal you can ski 365
days a year. Each ski area in the valley has its
own particular characteristics, and I really
couldn’t say where I like to ski most. However, I know I would never want to live any-
where else. The Zillertal Arena is made up of
several areas which have merged together into one. Kaltenbach and Hochfügen at the
start of the valley are, like Mayrhofen, real
freeriding hotspots. Then in the spring you
can catch some amazing days up on the glacier. And it’s not unusual for a lot of new snow
to fall into June even – as it did this year. But
you’re even more likely to be celebrating the
early arrival of midwinter when a metre of
fresh powder falls in October.”
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Engine
Output kW (hp)
xDrive25d
four-cylinder in-line
160 (218)
Torque Nm
450
Top speed mph
127
Acceleration 0–62 mph in s
6.8
CO2 emissions g/km
39.2 | 56.5 | 47.9
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The BMW R 75/6
Quetzal Saunders,
artist
Photo
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Transcription
Eva Munz
I live in Stone Ridge, about two hours from wild, crazy
New York City. I wanted my family to enjoy a quiet, simple existence, so I followed nature’s call – to a place where
experiencing pure freedom is simply a matter of walking
out the front door.
When I first visited the area years ago, something immediately whispered “home” in my ear. And that’s just what
it’s become. I’ve fashioned a cosy, inviting living space
here. I make wooden furniture, sculptures and objets
d’art in my studio. It’s an inspiring place.
My BMW R 75/6 has settled in here as well. The odometer stopped at 56,756 miles a while back. I’ve put a lot
more miles on it since then. Before that I’d been searching for the perfect motorbike for months. When the
BMW was finally sitting in front of me, I immediately
gave it a nickname: Bing. It’s the colour of lightly burned
toast and was born in 1976 – just like me. Sometimes I
find myself wondering – which one of us is in better condition? In any case it never leaves me in the lurch. Even
on icy winter days it always starts purring away the second I turn on the ignition. It covers long treks on winding mountain roads with the same ease as short hops
down to the river.
This photo was taken in my garden. My daughter Luna is
sitting up front, my son Marley is behind me, and behind
him is my wife Amanda. I’m wearing a plaster cast on my
foot because I recently tore my Achilles tendon. I wish the
story were more exciting: on my son’s fifth birthday, I put
on a superhero costume and started horsing around. One
misstep is all it took and – pop! – it was all over. I still managed to get the BMW out for a road trip right after it happened, though.
By the way, my name comes from Quetzalcoatl, the Latin
American bird and Mayan god. But it’s my BMW that gets
me as close as humanly possible to the feeling of flying
like a bird. It’s pure freedom!
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Quetzal Saunders was
born in Montreal.
He lived in New York City
until moving to a
house at the foot of West
Kill Mountain with
his family and his 1976
BMW R 75/6.
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The most recent innovations,
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from the world of BMW.
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The driving force
of English rugby
The BMW Performance Academy
In September 2012 BMW embarked on an exciting
f o u r-y e a r p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h t h e Ru g b y Fo o t b a l l U n i o n ( R F U ) ,
i n w h i c h i t b e c a m e t h e O f f i c i a l Ve h i c l e P a r t n e r o f
E n g l a n d R u g b y, O f f i c i a l P a r t n e r o f E n g l a n d ’ s e l i t e a g e g r a d e
development programme, and front of shirt sponsor of the
England Under 16, Under 18 and Under 20 squads.
Here, we go behind the scenes with England Rugby to discover
more about how the BMW Performance Academy works, and in an
exc l u s i ve i n ter v i e w w e a s k r i s i n g st a r O w e n Fa r re l l a bo u t t h e va l u e
of support from grassroots right through to international level.
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A natural fit
A significant partnership
As a major supporter of motorsport, golf – and the London
2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – BMW’s passion for
and commitment to elite athletic performance is
undeniable. BMW was selected as the Official Partner of
the National Academy Programme and Official Vehicle of
England Rugby in recognition of its ambition, optimism
and genuine enthusiasm for the game.
BMW support is twofold. Alongside the big investments in
the development of the English game, it will also have a
major presence in the lives of fans. BMW will offer an
unparalleled way to enjoy watching your home team at
Twickenham, and regular events and player appearances
at local BMW Dealerships across the country. BMW
Owners are also being offered the chance to win tickets to
next year’s RBS 6 Nations tournament (see overleaf).
“There’s never
going to be a perfect
performance – but
that’s what you
strive for.”
I n v e s t i n g i n t h e t a l e n t o f t o d a y,
developing the stars of tomorrow
Fa c i n g t h e f u t u re
As the first partner to invest specifically in the age grade
teams and the National Academy Programme, BMW is
committed to the development of the next generation of
English players from the grassroots club community to
the international stage. With BMW support, the RFU has
selected over 30 players with the potential to form the
BMW Performance Academy. It’s a new programme
designed to develop England’s most promising young
players, from 15 years old right through to the England
Senior Elite Player Squad (EPS).
BMW is applying the same vision to the next generation of
players as it does to BMW EfficientDynamics: it is looking
to the future. Sophie Goldschmidt, Rugby Football Union
Chief Commercial Officer, says: “We are delighted to be
entering into a new partnership with BMW Group UK, a
company renowned both for the excellence of its vehicles
and for supporting the development of athletes.”
With a new team, a new coach and a new regime, English
rugby is once again poised to be the game’s dominating
force. Join us on the journey.
Preparing for success
BMW understands how important early mentoring and
the importance of training and investment from a young
age can be. According to England Head Coach Stuart
Lancaster: “Putting in place the right player development
programmes is critical if we are to make England
successful, not just in 2015 but beyond. We are now seeing
the fruits of our age grade representative structure and
BMW’s support of that will be a massive boost to them.”
BMW is supporting
English rugby from
grassroots right through
to international level.
“Putting in place
the right player
development
programmes is critical
if we are to make
England successful,
not just in 2015
but beyond.”
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Interview:
O we n Fa r re l l
Technical proficiency, speed and stamina training, leadership, tactical understanding and the psychological hardness to survive on the global stage – these are just some of
the attributes the BMW Performance Academy will need
to instil in players if they want to make it to the top. During his advanced driver training at Bedford Autodrome,
Owen Farrell explains how it’s done.
As an England international, Owen is well-versed in the
precision and control required on the pitch – but the delicate handling a race track demands was another matter
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entirely. “It’s my first time,” he says, wide-eyed at the
prospect of taking control of a BMW M3 Coupé. With four
separate circuits and several configurations, the venue is
the perfect environment for learning how to safely handle
a car.
For Owen, driving the M3 was a revelation: “All your natural instincts are thrown out the window,” he says after
coming in from his first session on the south circuit.
“You’ve got to concentrate the whole time you’re out there.”
As a rising star in the Saracens and England teams, being
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able to concentrate in an extreme environment – and
keeping calm enough to make split-second decisions – are
qualities the backline player has demonstrated countless
times on the pitch, with a maturity beyond his years.
Still only 20, Owen’s choice of career was never really in
doubt: his father is the ex-Saracens and ex-England star
Andy Farrell. “I used to play a little bit of football, and I’m
a fan of every sport,” Owen admits, “but rugby was always
the main one.” Starting off at Wigan St Patricks, he followed his father’s footsteps down south: “When my dad
moved over to rugby union to play for Saracens, I made
the move with him. I started playing for school and club,
got trials for county, then started playing for Saracens.”
With his dad’s more recent role as a coach for both Saracens and England, rugby in the Farrell household is a family affair – but the father-son relationship takes a backseat when the two of them are at work together: “When
we’re on the training field, I’m just like any other person,”
he says, indicating the single-minded focus that forms the
basis of his rugby career. At home, things may be a little
more relaxed but the subject stays the same: “Most of the
conversation’s about rugby anyway. It’s what we both do
all day every day.”
It’s this approach of living and breathing your work that is
probably the mark of a true professional, and that has
stood Owen in good stead as he’s worked his way up
through the ranks of international rugby from under 16s
onwards. He thinks the contribution that exposure on the
world stage makes to your development is a big one: “It’s
massive to play all the age groups through from a young
age,” he says, because “it gives you a taste of the competitive side of international rugby.” It seems long ago now,
and it’s hard to believe it was only this year he earned his
first senior cap against Scotland in the RBS 6 Nations.
He’s a quick learner: that much is evident watching him
out on the south circuit. As he completes each lap, his cornering becomes increasingly controlled, and his driving
style displays more and more of the precision for which
he’s known on the pitch. “You need to be calm and coolheaded,” he says, of both track driving and his rugby game.
At international level, it’s as mental as it is physical, he believes, and the quality of the current crop of players
means there’s no room for complacency: “You’ve got
some unbelievable athletes with great rugby minds,” he
asserts. “You see that throughout international rugby.”
A modest man, these aren’t words Owen is likely to apply
to himself. But when pushed, he answers with characteristic understatement: “I try to improve every time I go out
there on the training field,” he says. His quietly confident
approach is typical of the squad in which he’s found him-
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rugby is
once again
poised to be
the game’s
dominating
force.
self playing such a key role, and he’s looking forward to
the QBE Internationals coming up in November.
He hasn’t forgotten his club ambitions though, hoping for
nothing less than “getting out there on the field and winning the Aviva Premiership” this season. Revealing the
mindset shared by all true athletes, he’s constantly trying
to improve himself and challenge the status quo: “There’s
never going to be a perfect performance – but that’s what
you strive for,” he states as a matter of fact. Looking briefly worried this might have come across as a bit grand (it
doesn’t), he brings the conversation back down to earth
with the kind of unassuming restraint that’s fast becoming
his trademark: “There’s always stuff to work on,” he says.
i: With BMW support, the England team kick off the QBE
Internationals against Fiji at Twickenham on 10 November.
i: Find out more about how BMW and England Rugby
make the perfect team at
bmw.co.uk/rugby
Owen at the wheel of a BMW M3 Coupé.
Owen took part in advanced driver training due to his role
as a BMW Performance Academy rugby ambassador. Both
on and off the pitch, BMW takes safety seriously, ensuring
players pass a comprehensive practical induction on responsible driving before getting behind the wheel of any
new BMW.
As such, he’s taking delivery of a BMW X6, “an unbelievable
car” he’s looking forward to using to and from training – and
for longer trips when he gets the time. A keen golfer –
and a master of understatement – he notes that the X6 is
“big enough to get my golf clubs in the back as well” and
plans to combine hobby with holiday when he eventually
gets the time: “Hopefully I’ll be taking a few road trips,”
he says ruefully.
The partnership between BMW and the RFU is a strong
one, having been designed to support players’ development all along the way. According to Owen, “Playing for
your country is the pinnacle of English rugby, and that’s
what you look at BMW being in the car industry as well.”
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Nothing beats the
atmosphere of match
day at Twickenham.
Win
Join us for the
RBS 6 Nations 2013
at England v France on
Saturday 23 February
If you share our passion for rugby and want to watch England deliver their ultimate performance live at the RBS 6
Nations Championship, we have 10 pairs of tickets to give
away. To enter the prize draw, simply complete and return the attached form or go to bmw.co.uk/rfuprizedraw
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The BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé
Better way
of life
The BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé epitomises the values of craftsmanship,
p r o v e n a n c e a n d a v e r y m o d e r n t y p e o f l u x u r y, m a k i n g i t t h e i d e a l m o d e
of transport for a trip to the Gloucestershire countryside.
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“People think organic
farming is labourintensive, but it’s not.”
Deep in the Cotswolds, a revolution is afoot. As soon as
the Daylesford organic farm opens its gates just before
nine on a midsummer morning, the car park starts to fill
up with a steady stream of visitors: a smattering of locals
arrive to pick up dinner ingredients in the Farmshop, followed by a class of children excited at the prospect of a
gazpacho-making lesson in the Cookery School. Behind
them, a group of French tourists look amazed to have discovered a corner of Britain that really is picture-postcard
perfection. Do people actually live this way?
At Daylesford, yes they do. But it’s not style over
substance round these parts: certified by the Soil Association, this is a 2,500-acre working farm that’s aiming for
100 percent sustainability. Daylesford has been practising
organic farming for almost 30 years now, and is always
looking for ways to develop.
“People think organic farming is labour-intensive, but it’s
not,” says Matt, a manager at Daylesford. The trick is to
choose animals and crops that suit organic methods, like
the rare-breed Gloucester cattle that graze here. “Cows
weren’t designed to eat corn,” he explains – so, at Daylesford, they don’t. All the feed is grown here on the farm, including the nutrient-rich silage the herd look forward to
as if it were “their Sunday roast”. A 13th-century breed
that was virtually extinct until rescued by Daylesford,
they provide the farm with both meat and milk of a quality their standard of welfare suggests.
Gloucester cattle are not the only heritage breed in evidence at Daylesford. On the other side of the farm, head
market gardener Jez is inspecting the tomatoes. Laid out
making the best use of technology everywhere you look.
Since it was bought by the Bamford family all those years
ago, and then restored, the Daylesford Farm has become
an internationally recognised brand with outposts in
London and Tokyo. A philosophy of literally staying true
to your roots, and a commitment to the craftsmanship required of quality products, are what have put this farm on
the global map. That, and the fact that customer service is
a personal exchange rather than a marketing activity: it
was a Japanese visitor who introduced Jez to the Mizuna
leaf, which now forms an integral part of many of the salads for sale in the Farmshop.
The people at Daylesford are committed to what they do,
using the very best materials to create a product or experience that’s a little bit different to the competition: “Everyone works here because they want to – they believe in it
and live it,” says Matt. “Once you start working here, you
tend to stay.”
Watching George, the groundsman, raking the gravel early in the morning is a reminder that luxury is often in the
details. But it’s also an indication of how the concept of
None of the produce
travels far to reach the
Farmshop.
Tomatoes are
just one example
of the heritage
breeds to see.
At Daylesford, food
shopping is a pleasure,
not a chore.
luxury has changed: these days, a premium product is all
about time and attention, and making the most of the
available materials so that nothing is wasted and everything is appreciated. At Daylesford, the 3,500 breeding
ewes also provide wool to make throws and cushion covers,
and even the off-cuts are used as insulation in packaging.
It’s not just Daylesford that promotes craftsmanship in
this part of the world, though – indeed, it could be said the
under polytunnels that generate all the heat they need
from the sun, the Purple Russians and Yellow Submarines
are just two of the types that make up what he calls a
“grown-up approach to tomatoes” – and which encompass
the “wonky varieties” that tend not to make most supermarket shelves.
At first glance, innovation is not a word the casual passerby might apply to a farm – but a quick tour of the premises changes all that. From low-voltage lighting to solarpowered huts, there’s a commitment to sustainability and
Just one of the
well-fed locals.
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in the BMW 6 Series
Gran Coupé
For your chance to win a day at the Daylesford Cookery School
for two, and full use of a BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé for the
duration of your stay, go to bmw.co.uk/daylesford and enter
your details.
Bourton House has been
here – in some shape or
form – since 1570, and
the ornamental garden
dates back to the 18th
century.
perfectly preserved buildings and countryside surrounding the farm are what inspired it in the first place. Bourton House in Bourton-on-the-Hill is an immaculately restored Jacobean manor that pays homage to the golden
stone the Cotswolds are famous for. Built on monastic
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lands, a building has stood here since 1570 and the village
itself dates back to Saxon times. Today, the accompanying
three-acre garden and seven-acre walled pasture have become a tourist attraction in their own right – another example of what careful planning, hard work and attention
to detail can create.
Roelof Quintus, who reopened the garden to the public after he moved into the house in 2010, is more enthused by
the Gran Coupé than the surrounding landscapes, however, and it must be admitted that it fits right in with the
grandeur of the grounds. Confessing he’s “not a keen gardener”, the breathtaking beauty of the formal gardens
and rolling countryside beyond indicates that other
hands are at work keeping this particularly ancient example of craftsmanship alive. It’s not for nothing that the ornamental garden and 18th-century raised walk won garden of the year – and continue to draw visitors from all
over the world – after all.
At the end of a perfect summer day, watching the golden
houses melt into a hazy sky, comes the realisation that, although the Gran Coupé stands for luxury, it’s not about
excess – and neither, really, are the Cotswolds. It’s about a
better way of life.
Commitment to
craftsmanship: both
Daylesford and BMW
use the very best
materials to make their
products.
Beautiful and luxurious yet practical too, the first fourdoor coupé in BMW history delights inside and out. With
the option of a new-generation full-colour Head-up Display, a Bang & Olufsen Advanced audio system and a full
leather hand-stitched dashboard, the BMW Gran Coupé
shares the same values of commitment to craftsmanship
and a refusal to settle for second best.
Alongside the car’s bespoke options, a suite of superior
quality specifications comes as standard, including Bluetooth telephone preparation, Xenon headlights, 18" Alloy
wheels, Dakota leather upholstery and BMW Professional Multimedia Navigation with high-definition 12″ display.
Under the bonnet, BMW EfficientDynamics ensures a
lithe driving experience that conserves energy yet delivers awesome power when you need it most. Auto StartStop and Brake Energy Regeneration, which recycles the
energy that’s normally lost by braking to recharge the battery instead, are just two of the car’s power-saving innovations, and the eight-speed Sport automatic transmission
also features across the range.
BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé
Engine
Output kW (hp)
640d
230 (313)
Torque Nm
630
Top speed mph
155
Acceleration 0-62 mph in s
5.4
CO2 emissions g/km
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41.5 | 57.6 | 50.4
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London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games
Days of
glory
Over the course of a month, the 542 exceptional
athletes selected for Team GB excited and
delighted their country in equal measure,
providing us with numerous opportunities to
unfurl the national flag.
As the Official Automotive Partner for the London 2012
Olympic and Paralympic Games – and proud sponsor of
the BMW London 2012 Performance Team – BMW was
there to capture every moment.
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In the following pages, we remember Great Britain’s best
medals tally in over a century, and celebrate what can
only be described as the ultimate performance.
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Gold rush
Seeing double: Laura Trott achieved two gold medals in three days.
A family affair: Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee dominated the Triathlon.
Exceeding all expectations, Britain’s athletes
did phenomenally well at London 2012 –
achieving their best performance since 1908.
What lay behind such a stunning turnaround?
Nicola Adams is the first woman to
win an Olympic Boxing gold medal.
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For the Boxing Flyweight Nicola Adams, life has been
something of a rollercoaster in recent years. In 2009,
injury and a lack of funds forced the BMW London 2012
Performance Team member to step out of the ring. Three
short years later, she finds herself in the history books as
the first woman to win an Olympic Boxing gold medal.
She wasn’t the only athlete setting records. Beating the
time that earned her a gold at the Beijing 2008 Games, the
Swimmer (and fellow Performance Team member )
Rebecca Adlington won a bronze medal in both the 800m
and 400m Freestyle.
The list of achievements went on: from the Cyclist Laura
Trott, who was awarded two golds in three days, to Louis
Smith’s silver on the Pommel Horse and bronze in the
Team Gymnastics, the Performance Team had the Midas
touch. At the ExCeL Arena in London’s Docklands, Luke
Campbell showed fighting spirit with a gold in the Bantamweight Boxing, and at the Eton Dorney Rowing Centre near Windsor, Tom James also took the top medal in
the Men’s Coxless Fours – Great Britain’s fourth successive Games gold for this event.
How did it all happen? Dr Marco Cardinale, Head of
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“I can’t describe what this atmosphere is like.
It’s beyond words, it’s epic, it’s magic, it’s emotional.
The crowd is phenomenal.”
To m J a m e s
ognises that science and technology, though useful, can
only take you so far: what an athlete really needs to succeed is simply to be exceptional. “The bottom line is they
are the people who can deliver that medal-winning performance on the day – and that’s what the Paralympic
Games are all about,” she says.
As Team GB showed us time and time again at London
2012, you can make all the predictions in the world – but
you can’t put a limit on the ultimate performance. “Sometimes it’s an incredible individual that pushes the bound-
aries,” Marco says, and no one can underestimate the
physical skill and sheer grit of each amazing athlete who
brought home a medal this summer.
Interviewed by the BBC after his race, Tom James found
it hard to grasp the magnitude of what he and the rest of
the Coxless Fours had achieved. Tom may have been referring to events at Eton Dorney, but his words could have
summed up the entire Games: “I can’t describe what this
atmosphere is like. It’s beyond words, it’s epic, it’s magic,
it’s emotional. The crowd is phenomenal.”
The BMW London 2012
P e r f o r m a n c e Te a m m e d a l w i n n e r s
Performance Team member
Sport
Supported by
Nicola Adams
Boxing, Flyweight
Scotthall Leeds
Alistair Brownlee
Triathlon
BMW Group UK
Steven Burke
Cycling, Team Pursuit
Lloyd Colne
Luke Campbell
Boxing, Bantamweight
Stratstone Hull
Carl Hester
Equestrian, Team Dressage
BMW Group UK
Tom James
Rowing, Men’s Coxless Fours
Berry Heathrow
Laura Trott
Cycling, Omnium
Specialist Cars Group
Laura Trott, Dani King and Joanna Rowsell
Cycling, Team Pursuit
Specialist Cars Group,
Snows Portsmouth and
Cooper Banstead
Gold
with Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas and Peter Kennaugh
with Charlotte Dujardin and Laura Bechtolsheimer
with Pete Reed, Andy Triggs Hodge and Alex Gregory
Silver
Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase
Rowing, Lightweight Double Sculls
BMW Group UK and
North Oxford Garage
Michael Jamieson
Swimming, 200m Breaststroke
Harry Fairbairn Group
Mary King
Equestrian, Team Eventing
Westerly Exeter
Louis Smith
Gymnastics, Pommel Horse
BMW Group UK
Rebecca Adlington
Swimming, 400m Freestyle and
800m Freestyle
BMW Group UK
Jonathan Brownlee
Triathlon
BMW Group UK
Tom Daley
Diving, 10m Platform
BMW Group UK
James Foad, Mohamed Sbihi and Greg Searle
Rowing, Men’s Eight
Cooper Cobham,
Cooper Thames Ditton and
Scotthall Stirling Corner & Watford
Anthony Ogogo
Boxing, Middleweight
Cooper Norwich
Chloe Rogers, Beth Storry and Georgie Twigg
Hockey
Sytner Maidenhead, Cooper Reading
and Dick Lovett Bristol
Louis Smith and Sam Oldham
Gymnastics, Team
BMW Group UK and
Scotthall Milton Keynes
with Tina Cook, William Fox-Pitt, Zara Phillips and Nicola Wilson
Clockwise from top left: Tom James, Rebecca Adlington, Luke Campbell and Louis Smith.
Bronze
Sports Science and Research at the British Olympic Asso- – these are elite-level performers at the top of their game.
It’s how Team GB won seven out of the 10 available
ciation, believes that preparation is key. For him, it comes
down to the fine-tuning of training regimes to suit each
golds in the Cycling, after all, and it’s how Performance
individual athlete: “The holy grail of all sports is trying to
Team members (and brothers) Alistair and Jonathan
understand how athletes respond to training, in order to
Brownlee picked up a gold and a bronze respectively in
individualise it,” he says.
the Triathlon.
These days, the technology available to sports scientists
According to Penny Briscoe, Performance Director for the
means they can study every last detail of an athlete’s per- British Paralympic Association, the same principle of
formance. But coaches will tell you that technological
sending “the best prepared team” is what underpins team
developments mean nothing without human endeavour
strategy at the Paralympic Games. Like Marco, Penny rec-
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with Constantine Louloudis, Alex Partridge, Tom Ransley,
Ric Egington, Matt Langridge and Phelan Hill (cox)
with Kristian Thomas, Max Whitlock and Dan Purvis
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Forty years on
From early prototypes to modern-day mass production,
t h e e l e c t r i c c a r h a s c o m e a l o n g w a y.
As the world’s most sustainable automotive manufacturer, it was no surprise that BMW was chosen as the Official
Automotive Partner and a Sustainability Partner for
London 2012. Perhaps less well known is how the journey
began – more than 40 years ago.
BMW was thinking about sustainability long before it rose
to the top of the agenda. In 1969, the year of the first Moon
landing, a group of earthbound engineers in Germany had
done something no less revolutionary.
A precursor to the BMW 3 Series, the 1602 was the popular two-door production model chosen to showcase the
car manufacturer’s ecological ambitions. Replacing the
traditional petrol engine with an electric motor, the car
became a statement about BMW’s plans for sustainable
engineering, and was used as the pacemaker for the
Marathon at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games.
i Spy
1969
The first BMW electric
car is unveiled in the
guise of the BMW 1602.
1972
The BMW 1602 makes a
guest appearance at the
Munich 1972 Olympic
Games, where it leads the
Marathon as pacemaker.
1991
The BMW E1 prototype
is developed to test the
viability of electric vehicles
in the consumer market.
2004
The technology behind
lithium ion batteries –
more usually found in
laptops – is utilised for
electric vehicles. The BMW i
think tank is founded.
2009
Fleets of MINI E vehicles
are released to test electric
vehicle technology in
everyday use.
2011
Based on the 1 Series Coupé,
the BMW ActiveE goes on
trial across seven US cities.
2012
The BMWs supplied for
London 2012 include a host
of electric, hybrid and
reduced emissions models,
including the ActiveE, the
320d ED and the 520d ED,
and the BMW i Concept
electrically-assisted bicycle.
A poster advertising the first BMW
electric car and its role as pacemaker
( Sc h r i t t m a c h e r ) a t M u n i c h 19 7 2 .
The accompanying text reads: “It was originally supposed to
be a car to experiment with. Now the BMW electric car will
be leading the Olympic Marathon runners in Munich. Silently
and with zero emissions. The BMW electric car has a 144-volt
engine that’s capable of 32kW (approx. 43hp) and 100km/h.”
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2013
The BMW i3 Concept is
set to go on sale around
the world.
2014
The BMW i8 Concept is
set to go on sale around
the world.
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Forty years on, BMW has built on its sustainable heritage
at London 2012 with a fleet that puts efficiency in pole position. It includes the ActiveE, an electric version of the
BMW 1 Series Coupé; various vehicles with the latest
BMW EfficientDynamics technologies; and the Pedelec,
the BMW i Concept electrically-assisted bicycle.
As the first Games with a sustainability mandate, stringent targets charged BMW with ensuring its fleet didn’t
exceed average CO2 emissions of 120g/km. It was a target
that BMW managed not only to meet but also to surpass.
According to BMW UK’s marketing director Chris Brownridge, “Our London 2012 fleet shows what BMW technology can achieve today in terms of fuel economy and low
emissions, including the first major presence of superclean EU6-compliant cars on UK roads.”
The ActiveE, which has an all-electric drive system, is just
one BMW model that is paving the way for the future of
motoring. Because the engine only needs one gear for all
speeds, it does away with the need for a clutch – increasing the ride quality and conferring a sense of calm that’s
ideal for spending a day behind the wheel.
It wasn’t until 2004 that vehicles like the ActiveE became
a real possibility – and it was all down to a breakthrough
in the way energy is stored. Up until then, the lithium ion
batteries required to fuel a car were only powerful enough
for a laptop computer. But it was just a matter of time:
after the technology was developed, BMW Group established BMW i, a think tank dedicated to developing sustainable mobility, and began testing prototype vehicles
for everyday use.
Now the Games are over, BMW is preparing for the next
stage in its evolution: the launch of the i3 and i8 Concepts,
which will go on sale in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Designed to meet the needs of the modern motorist while
endorsing sustainable engineering, the BMW i Concepts
promote efficiency without compromising on performance – yet another reason why the BMW Group has
been ranked the world’s most sustainable automotive
manufacturer in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for
the last seven years.
As BMW history shows, sustainability is both something
of a tradition – and a constant source of innovation.
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Rolled gold
As the Official Automotive Partner for
London 2012, BMW certainly entered into the
spirit of the Olympic Games this summer.
As well as providing transport for the duration of the
Games, a specially commissioned fleet of Golden BMWs
toured the length and breadth of the British Isles. Over 69
days, members of the public who spotted the BMW 1,
3 and 5 Series were given the chance to win London 2012
tickets by uploading their photos of the cars. Very possibly the only vehicles in the world with their own social
media feed, the convoy dropped in on BMW Dealerships
and BMW London 2012 Performance Team members
around the country – and helped a few Britons deserving
of their own medals along the way…
Right:
Six Lincoln locals get
the runaround of the
city they are helping
to make better.
Driving an estate
Teenagers are not normally portrayed as promoters of
community spirit, which made Maaike Veenkamp, a
youth worker from the Lincoln voluntary organisation
Off the Bench, all the more determined to secure official
recognition for a group of girls making a real difference to
their neighbourhood.
The aim of Off the Bench is to empower young people by
encouraging them to get involved in the local area: it was
what inspired Shannon and Lois Lane, Chelsy Parkinson,
Chloe Bates, Mollie Howitt and Yasmin Williams to get together and challenge the negative perceptions of the Tower housing estate in which they live. Having applied for
funding to run a twice-weekly youth club, and helping out
with fundraising activities throughout the year, the girls
are showing that commitment does pay off.
It was for this hard work that Maaike decided they deserved some gold-standard treatment, nominating them
for a ride around the city they are helping to improve.
You can watch a video of the girls’ day out in Lincoln at
The golden years
It used to be that you could expect a gold carriage clock
on retirement. For Geoff Peabody, who’s spent the past 15
years as webmaster for the Nottingham Forest Football
Club’s official website, it was gold of a different kind.
When the BMW fleet appeared outside Geoff’s door to
offer him a lift to work on his last day, he didn’t know what
to think. A web professional to the end, however, news of
his unusual commute didn’t go unpublished for long. It
was shared – where else? – on the site that has become a
vital source of information for local football fans. “Seeing
the convoy of three Golden BMWs arrive outside my front
door was spectacular, and once I got used to people staring at us I really enjoyed it,” he wrote.
Geoff’s VIP trip finished in stately fashion, arriving at
work in front of well-wishers and members of the press.
But then his service to the club is worthy of royal treatment: it’s thanks to Geoff that the Nottingham Forest portal became the first club website in the UK to broadcast
live match commentary – and one of the most popular in
the Football League in the process.
vimeo.com/44773523
Vo i c e o f t h e b a l l s
Top left:
Geoff Peabody
celebrates 15 years
of service with a
golden commute.
Bottom left:
Darren Farley (far right)
and friends sing their
support for England
in Euro 2012.
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Some football fans can be described as loyal, others as fanatics. And then there’s Liverpool supporter – and impressionist of various Premiership stars – Darren Farley,
who takes it to a whole new level.
In the run-up to Euro 2012, Darren showed his support
for his beloved Reds by recording the unofficial anthem
for England’s Euro 2012 bid. Called ‘7th Best Team in the
World’, the track is a lighthearted hymn in praise of the
national squad.
Of course, these days no song release goes without a
launch party, and no budding pop star arrives to one in
anything less than a chauffeur-driven limo. Luckily, the
Golden BMWs happened to be in Liverpool at the time of
the release, lending Darren the star quality he needed for
his big night.
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Specifications
Specifications
of the BMW models
in this issue
Cylinders/
Fuel
Displacement cc
Output hp
Max torque
Nm
Fuel
consumption urban*
mpg
Fuel
consumption
extra-urban*
mpg
Fuel consumption
combined*
mpg
CO2
emissions*
g / km
Top speed
mph
Acceleration
0–62 mph
in s
BMW 320i Touring
4/petrol
1997
184
270
32.1
54.3
43.5
152
145
BMW 328i Touring
4/petrol
1997
245
350
30.7
51.4
41.5
159
155**
BMW 316d Touring
4/diesel
1995
116
260
48.7
68.9
60.1
123
124
BMW 318d Touring
4/diesel
1995
143
320
48.7
68.9
60.1
123
130
9.2
BMW 320d Touring
4/diesel
1995
184
380
47.1
70.6
58.9
125
143
7.7
BMW 330d Touring
6/diesel
2993
258
560
44.8
62.8
55.4
135
155**
5.6
BMW 640i Gran Coupé
6/petrol
2979
320
450
26.6
46.3
36.2
183
155**
5.4
BMW 650i Gran Coupé
V8/petrol
4395
449
650
22.8
40.9
31.7
206
155**
4.6
6/diesel
2993
313
630
41.5
57.6
50.4
149
155**
5.4
BMW 640d Gran Coupé
7.5
6.0
11.2
BMW 740i [ BMW 740Li]
6/petrol
2979
320
450
26.6
44.8
35.8
184
155**
5.7
BMW 750i [ BMW 750Li]
V8/petrol
4395
449
650
23.7
42.8
32.8
199
155**
4.8
BMW 760Li
V12/petrol
5972
544
750
13.8
30.4
21.1
314
155**
BMW 730d [ BMW 730Ld]
6/diesel
2993
258
560
41.5
57.6
50.4
148
155**
BMW 740d
6/diesel
2993
313
630
40.9
57.6
49.6
149
155**
5.5
BMW ActiveHybrid 7 [L]
6/petrol
2979
320
450
47.1
39.2
41.5
158
155**
5.7
BMW X1 sDrive18d 4/diesel
1995
143
320
49.6
64.2
57.6
128
126
9.6
BMW X1 xDrive18d 4/diesel
1995
143
320
43.5
58.9
51.4
144
121
9.9
BMW X1 sDrive20d 4/diesel
1995
184
380
48.7
64.2
57.6
129
127
7.8
1995
184
380
42.8
57.6
51.4
145
127
8.1
Efficient Dynamics 4/diesel
1995
163
380
54.3
68.9
62.8
119
127
8.3
1995
218
450
39.2
56.5
47.9
154
127
6.8
170
250
90
9.0
BMW X1 sDrive20d
BMW ActiveE
electric motor
Range: approx. 100 miles. Charge time: 4-5 h
4.6
6.1 [6.2]
All data apply exlusively to vehicles with standard transmission and are correct at time of going to print ( September 2012 ) . * Fuel consumption is determined according to the ECE combined cycle ( 80/1268
EC) in which approx. one third of the distance covered is in urban traffic and two thirds is extra-urban. In addition to fuel consumption, CO2 emissions are measured. Fuel consumption figures are based on
cars with standard equipment. Optional extras may affect consumption. Figures may vary depending on wheel and tyre format. ** Electronically limited
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