RE: BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage teaser
Discussion
I look forward to seeing it 
The Zagato Z4 is a funny one, looked good from certain angles - and the colour was awesome - but in some pictures it doers look ungainly. I think mostly down to the twin bulge in the ceiling, a lot of the Zagato design cues are curves and bulges and therefore slightly at odds with the classic BMW ones (straight lines, angles, Hofmeister kink etc etc). Or, they're slightly too pronounced and out of proportion with the rest of the car.
The Zagato Z4 is a funny one, looked good from certain angles - and the colour was awesome - but in some pictures it doers look ungainly. I think mostly down to the twin bulge in the ceiling, a lot of the Zagato design cues are curves and bulges and therefore slightly at odds with the classic BMW ones (straight lines, angles, Hofmeister kink etc etc). Or, they're slightly too pronounced and out of proportion with the rest of the car.
Article said:
As well as the pair of Hommage cars - the stunning M1 of 2008 and the 328 of 2011 - it has also chosen the Italian concours to show the fabulous Pininfarina Gran Lusso. So there's certainly...
... a firm track record of BMW wowing people with pretty looking cars that they're never going to make.It's visual titillation and nothing else; a feat of art rather than engineering. Put one of these pretty machines into production, even as a limited run, and I'll show significant interest. Until then it's just posing.
Looks better in the M tri-stripe livery. However, the front grill is still terrible. 
The nice thing about the old CSL was the fact that under the massive arch extensions and wings it was essentially the same E9 body shape. This hommage looks very awkward imo.
Better to have applied similar modifications to the new M4 and released it as the CSL (though I do understand they are actually planning a GTS version).
The M4 DTM seems a much more cohesive (and ultimately successful) design (though I understand it's a custom cf body dropped on a racing chassis and under the skin very different from the road car).
The nice thing about the old CSL was the fact that under the massive arch extensions and wings it was essentially the same E9 body shape. This hommage looks very awkward imo.
Better to have applied similar modifications to the new M4 and released it as the CSL (though I do understand they are actually planning a GTS version).
The M4 DTM seems a much more cohesive (and ultimately successful) design (though I understand it's a custom cf body dropped on a racing chassis and under the skin very different from the road car).
g3org3y said:
Looks better in the M tri-stripe livery. However, the front grill is still terrible.
The nice thing about the old CSL was the fact that under the massive arch extensions and wings it was essentially the same E9 body shape. This hommage looks very awkward imo.
Better to have applied similar modifications to the new M4 and released it as the CSL (though I do understand they are actually planning a GTS version).
The M4 DTM seems a much more cohesive (and ultimately successful) design (though I understand it's a custom cf body dropped on a racing chassis and under the skin very different from the road car).
A drive in that would be epic - probably a bit of wee tooThe nice thing about the old CSL was the fact that under the massive arch extensions and wings it was essentially the same E9 body shape. This hommage looks very awkward imo.
Better to have applied similar modifications to the new M4 and released it as the CSL (though I do understand they are actually planning a GTS version).
The M4 DTM seems a much more cohesive (and ultimately successful) design (though I understand it's a custom cf body dropped on a racing chassis and under the skin very different from the road car).
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