Reports from inside the BMW German based car manufacturer state that the next-gen of BMW lineup would come up with partially or complete carbon fiber wheels.

The rumors come after the BMW`s display at the Innovation Days in Munich, where the automaker showed off with some products carbon fiber-based on its brand new cars, like the i3 electric and the i8 hybrid.

The choice for fiber carbon wheel is simple: there would be a 35 percentage of lighter alloy than the forged ones, reducing thus the car`s overall weight with around 25%.

Since there are no legal regulations for carbon fiber wheels implemented yet, we might expect BMW to come with such a useful and proven solution in a couple of years now.

This is not the first case of carbon fiber ever to been displayed on a car. If we go back, it was the Citroen SM that first set its eyes on glass fiber and resin wheels, back in 1972.

Back then, Michelin was on the verge of developing exotic hoops, but it wasn’t only until the 2008 that the first all-carbon-fiber wheel cars were developed by the Weds Sports in Japan.

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It seems that car maker BMW has really struck gold with their new carbon fiber technologies, with plenty future projects lined up.

One such project involves a full carbon fiber wheel rim, and we should expect it to arrive somewhere in the next 2 years.

In truth, this is not really a world first, but that isn’t the main selling point of the product. With their carbon fiber plant expanding, BMW is ready to apply their cheaper technology to a wider array of parts, wheels included. And their plans don’t stop there.

Recently they have also developed a full carbon fiber steering wheel as well as a one-piece propeller shaft, and along side the full carbon fiber wheels they will also build an alloy / carbon hybrid. These new wheels are not only lighter, but as BMW officials state, they are also tougher, scrapes being easier to polish out. i can’t wait until aftermarket specialists get a hold of this technology.

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This is a really interesting tuning of the BMW M3 and I even started wondering of when are them going to launch a new tuning of this cool and also very famous car named BMW M3. Anyway, as you see in the title, the time came for another tuning so I got my answer.

The tuning is named BMW M3 E93 by Royal Muffler and it is very cool talking about the aspect because at the moment we don’t know many things about it. All we know is that it has wheels made from carbon fiber, carbon fiber hood and also some carbon fiber mirrors.

As you can see, this BMW M3 E93 by Royal Muffler has many carbon fiber accessories and this is all we know, you should think that it may also have some other more carbon fiber parts because this is probably something like a theme for this tuning.

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