BMW 507: The Beautiful Failure That Almost Killed BMW | Rare Breed Legends

Only 252 were ever built. A hand-beaten aluminum roadster so beautiful it made the Mercedes 300SL look ordinary — and so ruinously expensive that BMW lost money on every single car, posted a 15-million-deutsche-mark loss in 1959, and nearly ended up sold to Daimler-Benz. This is the full documentary story of the BMW 507: Max Hoffman's $5,000 dream that became a $10,500 disaster, Albrecht von Goertz's timeless design, the 3.2-liter V8, Elvis Presley's Feather White 507 in Germany, the December 1959 shareholder revolt, Herbert Quandt's rescue, and the million-dollar legacy that inspired the BMW Z8. CHAPTERS (from actual scene boundaries): 0:00 — Cold open: beauty and the grave 1:27 — Hoffman's five-thousand-dollar dream 2:11 — Goertz draws the prototype 4:09 — Series Two: the dream begins to die 6:10 — Elvis Presley's Feather White 507 7:48 — The Z8 homage and the million-dollar legacy #BMW507 #BMW #RareBreedMotors #CarDocumentary #ClassicCars #CarHistory #AutomotiveHistory #ElvisPresley #VintageBMW #RareCars