In 1940, the Soviet Union acquired the design and production techniques for BMW R 71 motorcycles and sidecars.

The BMW 328 is a sports car made by BMW between 1936 and 1940, with the body design credited to Peter Szymanowski, who became BMW chief of design after World War II ( although technically the car was designed by Fritz Fiedler ).

The original design for KMZ heavy motorcycles, and their cousin the IMZ, is taken from the pre-World War II German BMW motorcycle R71, which the Soviet Union licensed in 1940.

The earliest use of " Kamm " to describe an automobile body incorporating this design was the prototype 1940 ' Kamm ' Coupe based on a BMW 328 chassis.

He finished third in the 1940 Mille Miglia in the BMW 328.

Just before Italy entered the Second World War in 1940, he took third place in the Coppa Brescia in a BMW.

In the 1930s, BMW pilots were successful with the BMW 328 two-litre sports car, winning many races including the prestigious Mille Miglia — a class win in 1938 and the outright winner ( with a streamlined body on a shortened course ) in 1940 with Huschke von Hanstein.

With the fall of France in 1940, Gnome et Rhône was ordered to produce the BMW 801 under license, while the 14M saw limited use on some German designs.

Throughout Portugal's Estado Novo period, Luanda grew from a town of 61, 208 with 14. 6 % of those inhabitants being white in 1940, to a wealthy cosmopolitan major city of 475, 328 in 1970 with 124, 814 Europeans ( 26. 3 %) and around 50, 000 mixed race inhabitants.

In 1900, 6, 213 people lived here ; in 1910 8, 542 ; in 1920, 10, 718 ; and in 1940, 12, 328 people lived here.

( Maj. Gen .) ( 1966 ) The Norwegian campaign of 1940: a study of warfare in three dimensions, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 328 p.

The 328 was a dominant sports car in late 1930s Europe and winner of the 1940 Mille Miglia race in Brescia, Italy.

It was the first actual Ferrari car ( it debuted at the 1940 Mille Miglia ), but due to World War II it saw little competition.

The critic Robert Irwin singles out the two versions of The Thief of Baghdad ( 1924 version directed by Raoul Walsh ; 1940 version produced by Alexander Korda ) and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Il fiore delle Mille ed una notte ( 1974 ) as ranking " high among the masterpieces of world cinema.

The race, a successor to the Mille Miglia, was to be run in April 1940.

The first was the Gran Premio del Norte of 1940, run from Buenos Aires to Lima and back ; it was won by Juan Manuel Fangio in a much modified Chevrolet coupé.

Cadillac town car, coupé maître or sedanca de ville, 1940

File: 1940 Buick Series 40 Special Coupe. jpg | 1940 Buick Special coupé

Derived from immediately pre-WW2 BMW products ( thanks to a connection to BMW through Frazer Nash ), the chassis was based on the BMW 326, the engine on the 328, and the body on the 327.

The early years of the post-war World Drivers ' Championship saw private BMW racing cars, based on the pre-war BMW 328 chassis, entered in the 1952 and 1953 German Grands Prix.

* BMW ( 327 / 318, 327, 328, and 335 )

For the automobile, see Volvo 340, Ferrari 348, BMW 315, BMW 328 and Porsche 356.

The race was won by Frank Pratt driving a BMW 328.

Despite being populated ( due to the circumstances even more than usual ) mainly by Italian makers, it was the aerodynamically improved BMW 328 driven by Germans Huschke von Hanstein / Walter Bäumer that won the high-speed race at an all-time high average of.

The XG 4-cylinder of 1, 776 cc, first tested in October 1943, was based on the 1. 5-litre Standard block and used its single cam-in-block to operate the opposed valves via a complicated crossover pushrod arrangement, similar to that of the pre-war BMW 328.

Prior to World War II, Touring gained fame for their Superleggera bodies, particularly those made for the Alfa Romes 8C 2900 and the BMW 328 chassis.

BMW 328 Touring Coupé

* 1940s BMW 328

BMW 328 Mille Miglia coupé

He contributed to the design of the BMW 328 sports car in the late 1930s.

Among his close friends were Jaguar founder William Lyons ( to whom he lent his BMW 328 for detailed mechanical investigation during the planning and design of the Jaguar XK120 ) and Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix engineering supremo Rudolf Uhlenhaut.

Winner, Torquay Rally, BMW 328.

* 1938: 3rd, RAC Rally, BMW 328.

* may enable consolidation / simplification of a manufacturer's car lineup ; for instance the current BMW Z4 ( E89 ) is offering only as a coupé-convertible ( hardtop ), compared to the preceding E85 generation that had separate coupé and cabriolet ( soft-top ) variants.

2005 BMW E46 coupé

Clarkson himself awarded the 2008 model five stars, and had the following to say: ' The 135 coupé is the best car BMW makes.

The first-generation BMW Z4 was designated the E85 in roadster form and E86 in coupé form.

14 years later, in 2003, BMW released the all new E63 / E64 which was available as a coupé and convertible, based on the chassis of the E60 5 Series sedan.

In the 2010 model year, the M6 was the second-most expensive BMW sold in the U. S. after the flagship 760Li ($ 137, 000 ), with an MSRP of $ 108, 150 for the convertible and $ 102, 350 for the coupé, overlapping with the ActiveHybrid 750Li and 750i ( at $ 106, 200 and $ 102, 300, respectively ), and considerably more than the M5 sedan at $ 85, 700.

The 2010 650i convertible and coupé, at $ 85, 550 and $ 78, 450, respectively, are also priced near the top of the BMW lineup, comparable to the 750Li and 750i ($ 85, 900 and $ 82, 000 ).

In addition to the roadster version of the Z3, BMW also released a coupé featuring a chassis-stiffening rear hatch area, though the Shooting-brake styling this gave was controversial.

The coupé was available as the Z3 Coupé or as the BMW Motorsport-enhanced M Coupé from 1999 to 2002.

The 1999 and 2000 Z3 M coupé models were equipped with the 3. 2 L S50 ( S52 for North America ) engine from the E36 BMW M3, while all the 2001 and 2002 models came with the S54 engine from the E46 BMW M3.

The Guarà is available in coupé and barchetta versions and based on a Maserati competition car from 1991, the Guarà uses Ford and BMW parts in a composite body.

The BMW E24 series was the first BMW 6 Series coupé, produced by the German automaker BMW between the 1976 and 1989 model years.

BMW unveiled a concept coupé version of the Z4 at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2005.

The design of the Z4 and Z4 coupé has variously been ascribed to Anders Warming, Chris Bangle, the controversial former BMW Head Designer, and Adrian van Hooydonk, current BMW design chief, The cars were driven by established and popular drivers such as Nobuteru Taniguchi, Masataka Yanagida, Manabu Orido and father and son pairing of Hans-Joachim Stuck and Johannes Stuck.

The BMW M3 is a high-performance version of the BMW 3-Series, developed by BMW's in-house motorsport division, BMW M. M3 models have been derived from the E30, E36, E46 and E90 / E92 / E93 3-series, and sold with coupé, saloon and convertible body styles.

The BMW New Six CS ( internal name BMW E9 ) was a two-door coupé built for BMW by Karmann from 1968 to 1975.