Amid the audacious design studies and automotive beauties from a bygone era gathered at the Concorso d\u2019Eleganza Villa d\u2019Este, the BMW Group presents its new BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage \u2013 and in the process makes a pretty formidable statement of its own. This model is the BMW Design Team\u2019s tribute to the 3.0 CSL, a timeless classic and iconic BMW Coup\u00e9 from the 1970s.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Hommage cars not only demonstrate how proud we are of our heritage, but also how important the past can be in determining our future,\u201d says Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW Group Design. \u201cThe BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage represents a nod to the engineering achievement exemplified by the BMW 3.0 CSL in its lightweight design and performance. With intelligent lightweight construction and modern materials, the 3.0 CSL Hommage brings the character of that earlier model into the 21st<\/sup> century, showing it in a new and exciting guise,\u201d he says, summarizing the approach the design team took with the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong> \u201cCSL\u201d stands for \u201cCoup\u00e9 Sport Leichtbau\u201d (coup\u00e9, sport, lightweight). With its aluminum bonnet, boot and wings, Plexiglas windows and equipment rigorously pared down to the bare essentials, the old BMW 3.0 CSL tipped the scales around 200 kg lighter than its sibling model, the BMW 3.0 CS. Unsurprisingly, then, it was predestined for a career on the race track. Whereas the material of choice in the 1970s was aluminum, today carbonfiber \u2013 or carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) \u2013 offers the optimum weight-to-strength ratio. These high-strength fibers are even lighter and stronger than aluminum. And the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage makes generous use of the high-tech composite, reinterpreting the concept of lightweight design for the modern age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amid the audacious design studies and automotive beauties from a bygone era gathered at the Concorso d\u2019Eleganza Villa d\u2019Este, the BMW Group presents its new BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage \u2013 and in the process makes a pretty formidable statement of its own. This model is the BMW Design Team\u2019s tribute to the 3.0 CSL, a timeless classic and iconic BMW Coup\u00e9 from the 1970s. \u201cOur Hommage cars not only demonstrate how proud we are of our heritage, but also how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":715093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,255],"tags":[228,429],"class_list":["post-494487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmw","category-news","tag-bmw","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"\n