Empire Building: 2015 BMW M235i vs. 1972 BMW 2002 tii - Car and Driver (blog)
Cultural historians, for example, usually peg the end of the 1960s at the infamous December 1969 Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, during which a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, acting as security, stabbed and killed a... We might ourselves look back 20 months prior, finding our own turning point in David E. Davis Jr. ’s April 1968 celebration of the BMW 2002. This famous piece was a far more optimistic kickoff to the 1970s than that nightmare in Northern California. Not only would BMW’s compact sports sedan create the template for the kind of cars we love, but Davis’s ideas and personality would come to define Car and Driver itself. The 2002 begat BMW’s 3-series , which has gone on to earn as much praise in these pages over the years as any other car, Porsche 911 and Chevrolet Corvette included. Last year, BMW added the 2-series to its lineup, and we promptly appended it to this lineage. America’s famous optimism had given way to cynicism, and no place in these 50 states was more cynical than New York City, in such a state of decay that it nearly went bankrupt in 1975. One Park Avenue in Manhattan held our editorial. Source: www.caranddriver.com
