Category: Driving Events

It wasn’t planned this way, but the BMW CCA New Mexico Chapter Taos Enchanted Circle Drive on July 16, 2022 was a New Mexico True 50 Jahre BMW M celebration with all cars participating either ///M or ///M Sport Package equipped. After appreciating the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge from the nearby meeting point on US 64, the group powered its way on Read More

By Rob Anthony   On April 2, 2022, 12 BMWs and 23 participants joined the BMW Car Club of America New Mexico Chapter for a tour of the Trinity Site, where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16th, 1945. Participants drove from as far away as Farmington to the North and El Paso Read More

By Sue Johnson   On March 12th and 13th 2022, BMW Car Club of America New Mexico Chapter members from the northern part of the state headed south from Albuquerque via Quarai National Monument to Carrizozo to meet up with the club members from the southern part of the state and El Paso. After a Read More

On February 12, 2022, the New Mexico Chapter of the BMW Car Club of America held a tour to the ghost town of Chloride, New Mexico. 13 cars and 23 participants joined the drive from Truth or Consequences along the northern branch of the Geronimo Trail National Scenic Byway into the remote Black Mountains of Read More

The NM Chapter of the BMW CCA visited the Gilman Tunnels during the Cardinal Point drive through the Jemez mountains on November 20, 2021. The tunnels were built in the early 1920s by the Santa Fe Northwestern Railway to haul timber from the Jemez mountains to a sawmill in Bernalillo and were used by logging trucks through the early Read More

By Phil Undercuffler Did you know you can see the Very Large Array from at least seven miles away? Maybe further, but that’s the point at which I first noticed the large white disks on the horizon as we drove East on US 60 near the end of the New Mexico Chapter of the BMW CCA Read More

Story and photos by Phil Undercuffler The New Mexico Chapter of the BMW CCA hosted another Cardinal Point driving tour on Saturday, July 24, 2021, with our route taking us North. The morning got off to an exciting start, as while our intended meeting point was Santa Fe BMW, the first of us to arrive Read More

The New Mexico Chapter of the BMW CCA hosted another Cardinal Point driving tour on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Our initial rendezvous point was the parking lot at the Smith’s on Tramway and Central, for an early start during the morning’s cool. We were happy to welcome four new participants; Alcan Rally stalwart Ohio Knox and his copilot Patricia Colahan in his Read More

The New Mexico Chapter of the BMW CCA hosted another Cardinal Point driving tour on Sunday, May 16, 2021. The weather was once again perfect for the New Mexico True drive which started in Belen, NM. After a bit of socializing and the inevitable car talk, sixteen cars and about thirty people proceeded south on NM 116 (old US Read More

The New Mexico Chapter of the BMW CCA held the 2020 Annual Karl Fox Memorial Fall Tour on Sunday, October 11, 2020. Turnout was good for the tour, with thirteen cars and over twenty participants – including four eventually-to-be-BMW-drivers from both the Durham and Looney families. It’s nice to see these driving tours becoming a Read More