3 model families in the catalog.
1936–1940Ancestor
The 328: BMW's Prewar Sports Car That Defined a Century of Racing DNA
On 14 June 1936, a small, sharp-nosed roadster lined up at the Eifelrennen at the Nürburgring wearing no racing pedigree at all: it was BMW's first true sports car, shown to the public for the first time that day. It won. Not a class placing to be quietly filed away, but a result immediate enough that BMW's engineers…
1995–2026
Z3 and Z4: How a Spartanburg Roadster Became BMW's Permanent Two-Seater
When BMW's board approved a new, low-volume two-seat roadster for the mid-1990s, the more consequential decision was not what the car would be but where it would be built. BMW had operated exclusively from German soil for its entire history, but the company had just finished commissioning an all-new plant in…
1956–1959; 1999–2003
507 and Z8: Two Roadsters BMW Built at a Loss to Sell an Idea
Max Hoffman was not a BMW executive; he was the New York importer who, through the 1950s, had an outsized talent for telling struggling German and Austrian manufacturers exactly what an American buyer wanted before they had asked for it themselves. In 1954, Hoffman told BMW's management that there was an opening in the…