{"id":2114,"date":"2020-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/bmw-2000-cs-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T08:46:18","slug":"bmw-2000-cs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/bmw-2000-cs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW 2000 CS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After BMW almost went bankrupt at the end of the 1950s, models such as the Isetta, the 600 and the 700 helped them to do a U-turn, which brought enough money into the coffers for new developments. Under the internal abbreviation Type 115, a new mid-range sedan was created, which debuted at the IAA (Frankfurt Motor Show) 1961 as the BMW 1500. In advertising and sales documents, BMW itself referred to it as the ‘New Class’ (Neue Klasse), whose design was the brainchild of Wilhelm Hofmeister, then head of the body development department. For the following decades, his design shaped the Munich-based company’s brand image and is still considered timelessly beautiful today. Over the years, the 1500 was joined by the 1600, the 1800 and finally the 2000, the latter with a modified front end with square headlights and larger taillights. From this BMW also developed the offshoots TI, TI-lux (later tilux) and tii. From 1966 there was also a two-door sedan series with a similar range of engines available, which bore ‘-2’ behind the four digit designation for better differentiation. This was dropped in 1971, when the ‘2’ was integrated and with 1502, 1602, 1802 and 2002 the 02 Series was introduced, which is still popular today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production in Rheine and Munich<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A special model offshoot debuted in June 1965 as a “comfortable touring car with a sporty heart for long journeys”, as BMW wrote in its press release. Wilhelm Hofmeister designed a remarkable coup\u00e9 on the platform of the New Class as the Type 120 with the two-liter, 120 hp four-cylinder engine. At the front, the headlights and indicators were concealed behind clear glass covers, a chrome strip all round emphasised the belt line and at the rear end of the side windows there was a detail that can still be found in BMW coup\u00e9s today and which went down in automotive history as the ‘Hofmeister kink’: the lower line runs up briefly towards the rear and then merges into the upper line coming from the roof. Hofmeister introduced this line in 1961 with the 3200 CS, probably for static reasons. BMW joined forces with Karmann in Osnabr\u00fcck for the production of the car christened 2000 CS. For this Karmann used their new factory in Rheine, Westphalia, which had been built shortly before, where the preparations for series production of the 2000 CS lasted until November 22, 1965. Originally, the plant was designed for the production of complete vehicles, but at the request of BMW it mainly produced bodies with floor assemblies, which were then transported by truck to Munich for completion. Only 549 complete cars left the factory in Rheine between August 1968 and February 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n

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