Wheels Australia - June 2018

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s, rear by semi-trailing arms

coils, brakes 272mm discs.

pictured is proper left-hook,

tweight Batmobile.

toutta hell

’s M06 (later M30) 12-va

ight-six was destined for

life in road and competi

ast-iron block with alloy

d was canted at 30 degre

yCSLs were 2985cc witht

ith carbs, soon supersede

cted 3003cc (149kW/271

omologate over-3.0-litres.

l ‘Batmobile’ build had 3

kW and 286Nm, did 0-100

.0sec via four-speed Getr

unding fathers

Bob Lutz, then at BMW, poached

Ford Motorsport engineers

Jochen Neerpasch and Martin

Braungart to develop the CSL;

thus began BMW Motorsport.

Alexander Calder 1975 Le

Mans car being followed

by Frank Stella in 1976.

H

cushy RHD specs, though

Scheel bucket seats, three-

spoke wheel and black

roof lining were common.

German lightweight

(pictured) has manual

windows thinner lass

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elegance.

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in 2015 with

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153cc,

km/h

ag.

Brush strokes

The 3.0 CSL began BMW’s

Art Car series, with the

,g,

plastic fixed rear side

windows. ‘City Package’

wasfittedtomostUKRHD

cars and offered on LHD;

included steel bumpers,

standard glass, power

front and rear windows

and a tool kit.

tyourelder

ibute to its famous racer

a concept, dubbed 3.0

h Vill d’E

eed of light

E9 coupe body was developed

the19652000CS,witha

einterpretedfromthenew

ix-cylinder sedans. CSL had

y panels and chrome arch

nsions to cover Alpina 14x7

ys. Suspension was 20mm

er;frontwasbystrutswith

Karmann get it

CSLs were built by

Karmann coachworks.

Airy, light-filled cabins

varied between LHD and

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