RE: Everytimer creates 1 Series-based ETA 02

[SuperBaaaad]

If it was an actual 2002 with lots of [hidden] modern bits in e.g. engine, electrics, safety things - stuff that's good/helpful/makes it faster but which, you can't really see, then maybe. But this looks like a st kit car - the front is bad, but the rear is really, really bad. And the modern interior makes it even worse.

I just don't see who would buy one. Ever.

[fernando the frog]

Smaller wheels, chrome around the kidney grille and some badges on the rear and it'd look better imo

[Lowtimer]

I'm all for combining the looks of old cars with sympathetic modern mechanical upgrades but this is a complete fail for me. It just doesn't look like an 02, the basic proportions are so wrong.

[monzaxjr]

Hideous in every way. I've seen a syphilis ridden fanny that was more attractive than this.

[tejr]

I think the only retro kit worth bothering with is the GTO on a Z3 kit - https://www.rcnmag.com/garage/a-rolling-stone

But you either need to keep it badge-less, or keep the BMW badges.

[Turbobanana]

monzaxjr said:

Hideous in every way. I've seen a syphilis ridden fanny that was more attractive than this.

So, to be clear, you don't like it?

[Mike335i]

I'm going to be one of the few brave ones that likes this, I think the blue one is better than the green, but I like em.

[FLUKE]

Simply terrible!

[C.A.R.]

Photoshop could have saved these people a fortune.

Could have seen what a mess it would be before actually putting grinder to metal.

[matbat]

[monzaxjr]

Turbobanana said:

monzaxjr said:

Hideous in every way. I've seen a syphilis ridden fanny that was more attractive than this.

So, to be clear, you don't like it?

Does it show?

[blue_haddock]

JMF894 said:

Front's ok but the side and rear don't work. And I would want the interior to feel retro too.

The back end is truly ghastly!

[humphra]

aeropilot said:

All I can put is...........WTF

Followed by and

[BFleming]

CharlieAlphaMike said:

I...errr...quite like it

+0.75 (not my contact lens prescription, I couldn't quite give it a +1 for 'me too'). I don't think it's that bad. I suspect it'll be a short-lived low volume (single digits) production run, but there are definitely elements of the car I quite like. I've seen better colours than the ones they've used in these pictures too, in which the rear end doesn't look like diseased genitalia (as brutally described above).
I quite like the E82/E88 shape though, so to think they've performed the 'she devil' transformation on one to make this car seems like a bit of a waste of energy, but I'm sure someone somewhere (probably Bavaria) will buy one.

[myhandle]

monzaxjr said:

Hideous in every way. I've seen a syphilis ridden fanny that was more attractive than this.

Nice! I think it’s quite a fun idea, it’s clearly not remotely meant to be a replica, just a bit of fun, in the same way the Mitsuoka Viewt was not trying to be a Jaguar Mk2, but something jolly and nostalgic. I used to have a 2002 Turbo and I presently have a 2000 CS, so I am a huge fan of this era of BMW but I am ok with this and would even consider having one, precisely because it is not meant to be a replica but a bit of fun. Not in either of those colour schemes though and not with the blacked out trim. Pale yellow, orange, lime green or Chamonix white are the colours , and the chrome needs to be reinstated, the dechroming does not work. Best of luck to them, they are trying to make something different that celebrates an icon, and being a 135i at core will itself be a pretty decent car.

[myhandle]

fernando the frog said:

Smaller wheels, chrome around the kidney grille and some badges on the rear and it'd look better imo

+1, and a less drab and more 60s-70s colour would work wonders.

[myhandle]

Also these awful photos are doing it no favours at all. A quick internet search finds this:

[deltashad]

Oh dear...

[Venturist]

I think it’s fun. Far from a flawless execution, the front fascia is a close copy but the overall car proportions don’t quite fit it so it look so like a messed up copy rather than a homage with its own identity. I’d enjoy seeing it in the flesh though and I’m glad people do stuff like this.

[foxbody-87]

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