the roots of the BMW M5 we've all come to know and love can be traced back to the BMW 530 MLE. The 530 MLE was a special project developed by BMW South Africa during a time when motorsport was at ...

The BMW 530 MLE was a homologation special edition of the E12 5-Series exclusive to South Africa in 1976, beating the original M1 by two years, making it the world’s first -unofficial- M car.

Before the M5 was even a thought at BMW, there was the 530 MLE. The 1976 motorsport special blazed a trail for BMW's motorsport prowess to come, and now, it's preparing for a homecoming.

A rare 1976 BMW 530 Motorsport Limited Edition (MLE) found in South Africa late last year and since fully restored received a rechristening ceremony at BMW Group Plant Rosslyn (also in South ...

Consequently, it shouldn’t have been a surprise to hear him regale the story of getting into the back of a unicorn BMW 530 MLE at South Africa’s iconic Kyalami race track. Read more about M ...

BMW South Africa in December last year announced its intention to restore this example, chassis number 100, of the rare locally-built 530 MLE - singularly perhaps the most important car in the history ...

And so 227 units of a track-bred sedan named 530 Motorsport Limited Edition (MLE) were consequently made, only in and exclusively for South Africa. And now BMW has commissioned a shop to treat one ...

Not many know the story of the BMW 530 Motorsport Limited Edition (MLE), a South Africa-exclusive homologation special of the E12 5-Series. The 530 MLE was created in order for BMW to qualify for ...

BMW SA will restore a 530 MLE, unveiled by some of the very men who built the original more than 42 years ago, to its former glory. The history of the 530 MLE dates back to the mid-1970s when BMW ...

However, before the iconic ‘Gusheshe’ became popular, BMW South Africa produced what many consider to be the forebear of the M5, the 530 Motorsport Limited Edition (MLE). Back in 1973 ...

Chassis number 770100 belonged to Peter Kaye-Eddie, racing driver and 530 MLE team manager back in the day. BMW will post updates of the old-timer's careful restoration on Instagram, Facebook ...