BMW History Book

[Threehz]

I enjoy learning about automotive history and I'd like to know more about BMW's history. Any recommendations on good BMW books?

I want to get "The BMW Book" but ~$80 is pretty expensive, so that is on my wishlist right now.

"The Complete Book of BMW: Every Model In the World Since 1950" got some questionable reviews making me decide against it unless someone else wants to chime in; especially at ~$50.

Thanks

[ltz Viper]

you can actually preview the complete BMW book it looks like a good read might buy this one myself

http://books.google.com/books?id=AZKFLcLybIMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Threehz]

The negative reviews I saw said that it was 1. 75% stat tables and 2. full of wrong values in those tables.

It does look great from the preview though, and there are supposed to be a plethora of great pictures. Hopefully someone on here has seen it/owns it and can chime in.

[SkiFree]

I enjoy learning about automotive history and I'd like to know more about BMW's history. Any recommendations on good BMW books?

BMW themselves come out with some pretty nice books.

Check out the 2 volume history of bmw's engines.
"BMW Dimensions: The History of Engines"

Also a neat book.....
"Touring-Car Racing and Sports Cars" by Stefan Knittel

Any of the "BMW Profiles series" are also worth reading.

[Threehz]

Going to be hitting up the library a lot this summer, hopefully they have some of these..

[Todd Black 88]

Check out "Driven" the inside story of BMW history

http://www.amazon.ca/Driven-Inside-Admired-Company-World/dp/0471269204

[e30e]

Have the book, I like it. Has high quality photos of models, interesting facts. It looks good on my bookshelf.

[QUKBMER]

I enjoy learning about automotive history and I'd like to know more about BMW's history. Any recommendations on good BMW books?

I want to get "The BMW Book" but ~$80 is pretty expensive, so that is on my wishlist right now.

"The Complete Book of BMW: Every Model In the World Since 1950" got some questionable reviews making me decide against it unless someone else wants to chime in; especially at ~$50.

Thanks

I have both of these books,love both of them. You also needed to BUY (Unbeatable BMW) 80 YEARS of engineering and motorsport success Hands down best book around 558 pages of oh my goodness !!!:up::up: $84.95 worth ever damn penny !!!

[Threehz]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure to check out all three, but for now I'm just going to hit up the library, all my spare money is going into a 2002 fund.

[mikracer]

My wife bought me this book. Its pretty cool but very generalized.

[defaultName]

The negative reviews I saw said that it was 1. 75% stat tables and 2. full of wrong values in those tables.

It does look great from the preview though, and there are supposed to be a plethora of great pictures. Hopefully someone on here has seen it/owns it and can chime in.

I bought The Complete Book of BMW when it came out years ago. I read through it cover to cover when I got it and I did enjoy it.

It does have a lot of stat tables (which are interesting to browse through) and lots of good photos. I don't know how accurate the stats are because I've never actually tried to verify them. Also the stats are not North American meaning horsepower is based on European models and torque is in Nm.

This thread made me want to run out and grab some more BMW books, so I checked prices on the BMW Profiles series. Have you seen the prices on Amazon? $900 used?!?!?

[kevin411]

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Hi,
well you can get a lot of books on BMW showing its glorious past.
BMW has a class of its own. With its new endeavors with various other manufacturers, it is set to go greater. The ""Ultimate history of BMW" is such a buy.
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