{"id":42031,"date":"2015-09-14T16:49:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=42031"},"modified":"2023-01-23T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T10:01:38","slug":"bmw-3-0-csl-homage-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/bmw-3-0-csl-homage-r\/","title":{"rendered":"New BMW 3.0 CSL ‘Homage’ R"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed this in the summer, here’s BMW’s latest concept. And we dig it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beemer unveiled this at this year’s Pebble Beach event<\/a> – and by all accounts shone brightly in that famously star-studded firmament.<\/p>\n

The BMW 3.0 CSL Homage R is, apparently, a race-inspired evolution of the Homage concept first unveiled at Villa d\u2019Este in May 2015.<\/p>\n

Press dispatches from Bavaria reckon that the car is all about celebrating the 40th anniversary of BMW of North America \u2013 which, coincidentally, was also a hugely successful year for the original BMW 3.0 CSL \u2018Batmobile\u2019 competition car in various races across the States.<\/p>\n

The testbed nature of the design peaks in the interior. Seats feature carbon fibre bracing that extends into the surrounding structure and the instrument panel (which itself is a structural crossmember) sports an illuminated display of the Laguna Seca track layout and braking points. And the instrument panel itself is meant to look a bit like the pine mid-seventies version that came in the original motor.<\/p>\n

It might be impossible to recreate the steeze of the talismanic Batmobile – but this does a good job of evoking its spirit.<\/p>\n

Bravo Herr Beemer!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t