I am currently reading a book on the history of the M3. Found out that the rims on the e30 were actually made by BBS and badged as BMW. That's just awesome!
E39 528i, one version had bmw badged bbs rims too, and an M50 to turbo and make a crapton of hp out of.
A lot of older BMWs have BBS wheels. I dont know until when but even the E39 still has BBS wheels. At some point they switched to Ronal.
Also Rial wheels were used before BBS by BMW
My Golf 4 has OEM BBS wheels, badged as VW… It’s not that rare
Im sure its not rare! I just found it interesting how under the develpment of the e30 M3 BMW just turned to BBS for the rims.
It’s totally not important for the performace of the car, but its perhaps a key relationship to its success.
Aircraft company Fokker, went bankrupt because of its outdated ideology to manufacture everything in house by themselfs.
But BMW took very modern approaches in the mid 80s, such as giving design and manufacturing tasks to other companies. Which is indeed why its market grew. It was a combination of many brilliant design teams coming together.
Your mk4 came on the market 10 years later. By that time, this type of “shared manufacturing” would have been very common i presume.
BBS did that alot in that era, my 1988 Mazda RX-7 had the same wheels, manufactured by BBS.
Its not unusual for a car manufactor to get there rims made by someone else, we had and opel with stock opel wheels wich were made by borbet
Lots of manufacturers do/did this. In fact the majority of cars roll out on OE wheels made by the likes of BBS, Ronal, Speedline, OZ etc.
Volvo also got that
My dream car.
what book??
BMW M3 the complete story
Funfact: Honda rims were/are made by Enkei and Cromodora .
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E39 528i, one version had bmw badged bbs rims too, and an M50 to turbo and make a crapton of hp out of.
A lot of older BMWs have BBS wheels. I dont know until when but even the E39 still has BBS wheels. At some point they switched to Ronal.
Also Rial wheels were used before BBS by BMW
My Golf 4 has OEM BBS wheels, badged as VW… It’s not that rare
Im sure its not rare! I just found it interesting how under the develpment of the e30 M3 BMW just turned to BBS for the rims.
It’s totally not important for the performace of the car, but its perhaps a key relationship to its success.
Aircraft company Fokker, went bankrupt because of its outdated ideology to manufacture everything in house by themselfs.
But BMW took very modern approaches in the mid 80s, such as giving design and manufacturing tasks to other companies. Which is indeed why its market grew. It was a combination of many brilliant design teams coming together.
Your mk4 came on the market 10 years later. By that time, this type of “shared manufacturing” would have been very common i presume.
BBS did that alot in that era, my 1988 Mazda RX-7 had the same wheels, manufactured by BBS.
Its not unusual for a car manufactor to get there rims made by someone else, we had and opel with stock opel wheels wich were made by borbet
Lots of manufacturers do/did this. In fact the majority of cars roll out on OE wheels made by the likes of BBS, Ronal, Speedline, OZ etc.
Volvo also got that
My dream car.
what book??
BMW M3 the complete story
Funfact: Honda rims were/are made by Enkei and Cromodora
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