This 1978 BMW 320 E21 Gruppe 5 is OUTRAGES Villa d Este 2022

During the 2022 Concorso d Eleganza Villa d Este I have filmed this BMW 320 Gruppe 5. This car is wide, massively wide: A potpourri of boltons envelops its core, which observers can only identify by looking very carefully this is the first generation of the BMW 3 Series. The additions to the bodywork provide a source of fascination with a functional, yet brutalist style. In 1978, BMW Motorsport delivered one of 36 kits for the sum of 90, 000 marks to GS Tuning in Freiburg, where this example was created as a BMW 320 Gruppe 5 racer. The consistently weightreduced design weighs in at just 760 kilograms and its twolitre, fourcylinder engine from Formula 2 mobilises around 310 hp at revolutions up to 10, 000, min. , twice and threefold the power of the series model. After three works campaigns in the German Motor Racing Championship (DRM), which was very popular at that time, todays owner took over custody at the end of 1978. Over the subsequent three years, he lined up on the grid 59 tim