RE: BMW 8 Series Concept for Villa d'Este

[Burwood]

MOBB said:

ducnick said:

The front is minging! Love the rest.


Please don't sell them with 3 litre Diesel engines. There really is no need for those kind of antics, leave that for the lower series.

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lol. And of course it will have a diesel engine 850MD

[daveco]

jeremyc said:

But will they go as far as emulating the manual gearbox available on the original 8 Series?

I think they'll be hoping it is not a financial disaster like the original 8 series!

Guaranteed this will offer nowt but 12 speed autos and multi turbo dag dags, possibly one petrol hybrid, all of which will weigh more than the moon.

Do you remember when BMW were going to release a 125i lightweight with a NA 6 cylinder engine, but it was shelved?

[immigrant]

Still with the stty, tiny, low-res pictures on Pistonheads 'features'. Welcome to 1998.

And there's a pic of the interior on BMW's Twitter, posted yesterday.

https://twitter.com/BMW/status/867792405562576898

[sidesauce]

anonymous said:

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Only BMW did exactly this. It's called the i8...

[sidesauce]

anonymous said:

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The nose of the M1 concept would never make it past pedestrian safety regs.

The hybrid power train is far from naff. For those living in London in particular, it's a boon as there's no congestion charge to pay and it's pretty nippy by any standard.

[culpz]

clonmult said:

culpz said:

Well done BMW, that's one gorgeous looking car.

Apart from the front, which is truly gopping.

And the side view, which looks like an Aston, and the rear 3/4 view, which looks like an A5 ....

And this will come out with a 3 liter diesel. The market practically demands it.

It's not great and easily the worst part of the car, styling wise, but maybe then can adjust it for the final production model.

I haven't got an issue with the side view/rear 3/4 view at all, personally.

As the article says, it will, most likely, be the more powerful engines that will go in this. I'm hoping so anyway! Yes, it's a given these days for BMW to offer diesel engine in such cars, but just buy the best petrol version they offer if that's what you want.

[culpz]

jeremyc said:

But will they go as far as emulating the manual gearbox available on the original 8 Series?

I very much doubt it tbh. I could be proven wrong but i just don't think enough people would want them.

[culpz]

immigrant said:

Still with the stty, tiny, low-res pictures on Pistonheads 'features'. Welcome to 1998.

And there's a pic of the interior on BMW's Twitter, posted yesterday.

https://twitter.com/BMW/status/867792405562576898

I'd get your eyes checked, if you haven't recently. There's nothing wrong with the pictures, as far as i can see (excuse the pun).

[RDMcG]

If the grille bars were to be blacked out it would be better,,,would be nice with the V12......

[RTH]

Blimey BMW thinking of making an attractive car !! The grille looks a bit '53Buick.

[kambites]

Hmm, it's not terrible looking as modern cars go, but you certainly couldn't call it "elegant" like the original 8-series. As much as a generally dislike retro designs, this is one car which probably needed one, IMO.

The proportions overall are good (although the rear overhang is rather excessive) but the details, especially of the front a rear bumpers, are heavy-handed and ungainly.

Edited by kambites on Friday 26th May 12:32

[MrDudwee]

MOBB said:

ducnick said:

The front is minging! Love the rest.


Please don't sell them with 3 litre Diesel engines. There really is no need for those kind of antics, leave that for the lower series.

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And the eponymous M8 of course, in this case a v8 twin turbo straight out of the new M5 plus 10/15% more boost to top 600bhp and create a reason not to GT Conti or DB11.

Starting will be about 85k for cooking example to 145k for breathed upon version (all sans obvious BMW extras.....obviously SIR!!!)

[Sine Metu]

I like it. BMW has been a boring brand for me for many years other than some of the show cars. The last time they got close to being interesting was in Bangle's era. Everything else is just the slow/static glacial evolution of the same 3/5/6/7 series shapes. God forbid a BMW 3 series ever comes without it's so called iconic Hoffmesiter Kink. This design looks brash and interesting, braver, more impactful. Okay design keeps the masses happy. Great design will generally polarise, be disruptive, and lead people in new fresh directions. The front end is what's really delivering on the impact, will polarise and will give BMW somewhere fresh to look design wise. Applause from me.

[immigrant]

culpz said:

I'd get your eyes checked, if you haven't recently. There's nothing wrong with the pictures, as far as i can see (excuse the pun).

Try here:

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-offici...

Or any or other car site. The pics from the press kit are available at larger than stamp size if you click on the ones inset to the article. PH has used small, compressed pictures for over a decade. No idea why.

[GTEYE]

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I disagree re the first contention. Neither of us can prove it.

Re the second, what a farce. It's a £100,000 supercar and you specify it to save a few pennies on road tolls? It makes no sense. Fit a nice powertrain and pay the tolls, which you can easily afford if you can afford an i8.

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Just because you can afford the £100k entry price to buy the car - why would you automatically not care about throwing money to the government in congestion charges and tolls.

[j90gta]

Side elevation looks quite elegant but the front and rear look sooooo heavy and bulbous, as if they were designed by someone else.....

[Quickmoose]

mackie1 said:

. Interestingly the lines (apart from the massive scoops which probably won't be on the production car) are really very similar to the A5 sportback:

no, no they're not.
The Lexus connection is closer.

[SturdyHSV]

Loads of images on lots of other sites, including a gaming site...



All of them are on this page, including interior and lots of pointless 'lifestyle' images of an unmarried middle aged man with a beard and sunglasses looking moody in an expensive shirt.

https://www.gtplanet.net/bmw-reveals-concept-8-ser...

[mackie1]

Don't be silly. Glass house, roof line, window trim with "smear" at the rear extremity, curved boot lip, wheel arches, etc etc. The haunches are way more pronounced on the concept and the roof line visual lower but otherwise a lot of the cues are extremely similar, derivative even.

[V8 FOU]

Love it.
Just sooo much better than the hatefull old 8 Series. That was a dog, to drive, to work on, to look at.

This is the best BMW design for a while.