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A brand-new automotive concours event in Newport, Rhode Island is taking steps to make classic car shows more accessible for the next generation. ‘Bout time!The first-ever Audrian’s Newport Concours Motor Week will be hosted by Rhode Island’s Audrian’s Automobile Museum, and is scheduled to take place over four days in early October.And in a refreshing effort to keep the next generation from getting discouraged by classic car prices that tower higher than their life savings, the event creators have decided to include a 30 Under 30 class. “The 30 Under 30 is a class designed for hobbyists under thirty years of age who have not spent more than $30,000 on their project,” the concours website reads. “This class has been developed to encourage young people to get involved in the hobby of car collecting and restoration.” “By having this officially judged class, it is our goal to foster growth within the collector hobby, by showing young people that collecting and restoring is not just for the affluent, and isn’t limited to cars in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.”The 30 Under 30 entrants will be displayed and judged (by Jay Leno, among other experts) alongside 23 other ‘regular’ classes on the final day of the event, which will include other, much more expensive cars, including the pre-Second-World-War classics typical of concours. Other concours highlights include a Tour d’Elegance.The event should draw a crowd, and not just because there will be millions of dollars of classic cars there; John Legend is also scheduled to perform at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.The inaugural event will take place at multiple venues in Newport from October 3 through 6, with proceeds going to a variety of local non-profit organizations. Entries are closed for this year, but guest tickets are still available on the official
Origin: New concours event welcomes younger entrants with under-$30k class

Major anniversaries and milestones in the automotive world are celebrated in any number of ways. You can market Champagne like Bugatti did, or turn an old race car into vinyl records like Porsche, or you can do what most automakers do when the occasion is grand enough and release a special edition. And in the BMW family, one of the members is celebrating a relatively significant birthday this year: The M5 is turning 35. To honour the beginning of what would become an iconic car for the brand, BMW has christened a dark and dashing special edition: the M5 Edition 35 Years. The anniversary car is based on the M5 Competition, with the same 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 engine making 617 horsepower and 553 lb.-ft. of torque. That grants it the same sprint time of zero-to-100 km/h in 3.3 seconds; and top speed of 200 km/h, which it hits after 10.8 seconds. But BMW Motorsport GmbH got BMW Individual to make sure people would be able to tell that this was no ordinary extraordinary M5 Competition saloon. Well, some people. The Edition model comes in a special matte finish called Frozen Dark Grey, with grey 20-inch alloy wheels and brake calipers in gold or high-gloss black. The interior gets black leather seats with contrast beige stitching; select surfaces finished in a shimmering “aluminum carbon structure gold anodized,” and door sills and a centre console engraving that reads “M5 Edition 35 Jahre,” or “35 Years.” We’re just going to say it: middle age looks good on the M5. The production run will total just 350 examples, with 35 allocated for the United States. BMW Canada says it’s still working out its distribution strategy on this side of the border, but that it’s likely we’ll get at least a few. We’d put our money on 3.5
Origin: BMW welcomes the M5 into mid-life with the M5 Edition 35 Years