RARITY RIDES / BROWSE BY ERA
Discover vehicles in their historical setting: the technical ambitions, design languages and competition demands that shaped them. Era labels follow the classifications recorded in each profile.
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An era describes context; it is not a claim that every surviving example was built in the same year. Individual profiles explain presentation dates, reference seasons and production periods where those distinctions matter.
THE COLLECTION
1,863 profiles
BMW 1976
The 1976 BMW 3.0 CSL Art Car by Frank Stella takes a very different approach from Calder’s first example. Instead of large contrasting color fields, Stella’s design uses a black-and-white grid and…
BMW 1973
The E9-generation BMW 3.0 CSL turned an elegant six-cylinder coupé into a homologation platform with a deliberately more competitive focus. It is important to identify the generation because BMW later reused the…
BMW 2015
The BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage reinterpreted the celebrated lightweight coupé for Villa d’Este in 2015. Its Golf Yellow body and dramatic aerodynamic shapes made the heritage connection visible, while carbon-fibre construction language…
BMW 2022
The 2022 BMW 3.0 CSL revived one of the marque’s most important names in a fifty-car anniversary series. Created for BMW M’s fiftieth birthday, the new coupé combined a manual gearbox, rear-wheel…
BMW 1977
The 1977 BMW 320i Art Car by Roy Lichtenstein is the third vehicle in the Art Car sequence. It moved the programme from the earlier CSL racing coupés to a Group 5…
BMW 1940
The BMW 328 Kamm Coupé belongs to the point where racing-car design began treating airflow as a central engineering problem. Its significance is not simply that it looked different from a 328…
BMW 1940
The BMW 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé is a coachbuilt competition car whose reputation rests on results as well as shape. It connects the 328’s small-engined racing platform with Carrozzeria Touring’s lightweight…
BMW 1985
The BMW 333i brought a large six-cylinder engine into the compact E30 body for South Africa. It was a BMW-built regional performance model assembled at Rosslyn and developed through collaboration involving BMW,…
BMW 2016
The BMW 435i ZHP Edition revived a familiar enthusiast code for a new 100-car US series. Announced in May 2015 for the 2016 model year, the F32 coupé combined factory packages with…
BMW 1991
Esther Mahlangu created the twelfth BMW Art Car in 1991 on an E34 BMW 525i. Her bold geometric treatment brought a Ndebele mural-painting tradition onto the curved surfaces of an automobile. BMW…
BMW 1976
The BMW 530 Motorsport Limited Edition is the E12-based homologation special developed for South Africa in the 1970s. It links a road-going 5 Series production programme with BMW’s Modified Production racing effort.…
BMW 1990
Matazo Kayama created the ninth BMW Art Car in 1990 using a BMW 535i. The work brings together a silver saloon body, fine tonal changes and delicate foil-based techniques. Its visual character…
THE RARITY RIDES STANDARD
A limited offer is not automatically a completed-production total. A surviving vehicle is not a complete factory census. We keep those distinctions visible and link each collection back to the individual profile’s evidence.
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