Few people know and remember that the place is now century of BMW in the legendary "German troika" could be a vacant one by the end of the 50s, and the world would have plunged into sadness, and did not see M5, M3, CSL and many other Bavarians. Of course, the competitors would have made the day of the concern the red day of the corporate calendar, but the automotive industry would certainly be markedly other without the legendary "nostrils". Mark is obliged to rescue the modest BMW 700 and its predecessor ISETTA, in which the audience saw the potential, giving the company the opportunity to grow and experiment. It is attempts to breathe new in the industry to the Bavarian enterprise and laid the way to the hearts of millions of people, and this is definitely a good reason to look at the most incommable, causing and, of course, beautiful concepts from the latest BMW history.
1969: BMW Spicup
Presented at the Geneva Motor Show of 1969, this car was the brainchild of the designer house Bertone. It was there that the car was decided to equip with retractable panels of steel on the roof, "muzzle", terribly similar to the Alfa Montreal and Lamborghini Espada, and a 2.5-liter engine of its own production. By the way, the SPICUP exhibition concept was sold a couple of years ago, so the chance to see it on the street is negligible, but everyone has every one.
1972: BMW E25 Turbo
The BMW M1 predecessor was specifically built to the Summer Olympic Games in Munich for testing advanced technologies like a radar warning system on a pedestrian or border. The specified direction in the design of E25 Turbo was picked up in the future not only M1, but also the 8th series and even the z1 roadster.
1991: BMW Nazca
To this design debut of the 26-year-old Fabrizio of Judjaro, who screamed inspiration in Formula One and the GROUP C Racers, you need to get used to correlate it with the image of a classic BMW. Very light, 1100-kilogram concept with a carbon body body and a panoramic 360-degree overview from the salon had very convenient when landing the doors made according to the "Seagull wing" scheme.
1995: BMW Z18
In order for this experiment to create an off-road rodster in a series, the brand's fans have been beaten by BMW for more than 20 years, even despite its rather strange appearance. That's what it means "hooked."
1999: BMW Z9 Gran Turismo
A kinda, sample of the pen, marking the return of the 6th series to the modern line, was made by Chris Bangle and was represented by the public in 1999. Here we again see the "Seagull wing" and ask a fair question: why, damn, such doors did not attach any 6-series serial models?
2001: BMW X Coupe
From cultural shock, which visitors to the Detroit Motor Show of 2001 were tested thanks to the concept of X Coupe, they could not recover to this day. BMW challenged prejudices and spread the boundaries of reasonable, overhauing a stick with the trunk, the role of which almost the entire back of the body performs.
2006: BMW Concept Coupe Mille Miglia
When creating this project, BMW designers, apparently, were gaining in the image of Chicago mafia from 50s, prone to futuristic fantasies. Indeed, the car looks cosmically retrospectively, although the features of the classic 328th in it do not strangle it.
2007: BMW Concept CS
Smooth lines that are not introduced, however, is misleading about the explosive nature of the power plant in this car are aligned with a low landing and a sharp "nosed" profile. Commodified with 7-Series Concept CS was on the hairs from the series, but at the end of 2008 from this idea had to be abandoned because of not too much delight of the public. Perhaps in vain.
2008: BMW Gina
Simple words about this model end, it is only worth mentioning that it is based on the platform from the Z8 rhodster. Next, there is a continuous flight of the designer fantasy of Chris Bangla, emphasizing that in the future, buyers will form the appearance of their cars themselves. Leather upholstery is not inside, and outside is although it is very cool, but, apparently, it is still too bold for time when each hooligan can have a knife or scissors with you.
2008: BMW M1 Hommage
In the same year, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of M1, the first true Supercar BMW, the company introduced on Concorso D "Eleganza literal ommage of the legendary car. The same proportions, the same landiness and dullness of the 70s, but submitted under the sauce from Hot flamenco design of Chris Bangla.
2009: BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics
One of the most discussed concepts of that time promised "sweets without consequences" or simply - high performance with minimal CO2 emissions. There were unique numbers of less than 100 g / km at the power of the M3 level, but these indicators managed to surpass in I8, though noticeably later.
2011: BMW Vision Connected Drive
On VCD, it was hardly rolled by all the technologies of a smart car - a projection 3D display, a browser-predictor of the situation in the area that you currently pass, and, of course, visible first LED lighting of the car body.
2011: BMW 328 Hommage
Another tribulation of respect for the company of its history presented to the reincarnation of the BMW cult racing car, which was reborn into the body of carbon fiber and reinforced plastic with a 3-liter row six-cylinder engine instead of a heart.
2012: BMW Zagato Coupe
Debuting on all the same CONCORSO D "ELEGANZA, this car was collected manually just like the 328th sports cars in the 30s of the last century. Despite the fact that the concept of Vmax, in which this model fit, implies that it should First of all, just quickly go, designers perfectly diluted the classic Bavarian in front of the elements like a double "wave" on the roof and the famous Cum-tail.
2014: BMW Vision Gran Turismo
At the moment, the only minus of this concept is that it is created only in the virtual space specifically for the game Gran Turismo 6. Digital sports car, of course, has simply excellent mass indicators (1180 kilograms), the perfect load distribution on the axis and excellent performance in the presence of 3 -litrovaya six-cylinder engine. So we agree to even slightly reduce the degree of expectations, if only the concept ever came down to the real racing track.
2015: 3.0 CSL Hommage
Once the original CLS forever took its place on the Alley of Glory, then BMW, creating a concept for his reasons, it was necessary to pretty to try to somehow remember. This "Canar Salute", ranked on Italian Villa D "Este Concours, coped with the task completely, forcing everyone for a while to forget about" Batmobile ", as a different classic CLS.
2016: BMW I Vision Future Interaction
It is logical that this thickening technology was presented not at the auto show, but at Consumer Electronics Show - there is so many innovative ideas and their embodiments in simple, but necessary details. Most of them directly concerns how the driver interacts with the car and all its electronic gadgets. For example, this concept without unnecessary request assumes control, it is only a call to enter the phone, and the gigantic electronic panel understands the driver and passenger's control gestures.
Concepts are an attempt to look into the day after tomorrow. In the case of a concept car, this is the work of a set of passionate specialists: designers, engineers, technologists. Nowadays, a rare automotive exhibition takes place without the premiere of new conceptual cars.
Construction of concept car - this is a job on the viewer, an experiment in the field of design and technology. Good concept car - a dense symbiosis of the object of art and a litmus paper, which combines the advanced achievements of engineers and designers, a thin tool to assess the reaction of the viewer. Spectator sophisticated. Spectator expert.
That is why the completeness of the concept car and its suitability for real life is not so important. The idea embodied in reality does not always need compromitance. Some manufacturers tend to abuse it, and build concepts exclusively from love for art, cars that never will be released on the road. As a result, the widespread belief that concept car was something incredibly wonderful, but also as incredibly distant from reality. Fortunately, not all manufacturers are so irresponsible to the expectations of their consumers.
Today, our story is devoted to the history of BMW concepts - companies whose cars are known for their mischievous character and magnificent design. And it is especially nice that BMW is one of the few companies whose serial cars do not lose relations with conceptual developments.
For 100 years of its activities, a variety of concept carters has been created by BMW. It is gratifying that many of them got their development in serial models. Consider the most signs of them.
Historical reference:
Starting its history in 1913 with the production of aircraft engines, BMW soon mastered the production of cars. And although the first model of the BMW DIXI 1927 was a licensed copy of the British Austin Seven, BMW released it and performed by Roger, and 3 years later, in the 1930th, a special sports racing version was created.
Sports cars are closest to the concept of Carama. In the harsh conditions of sports, new design solutions are experienced, new ideas and promising technologies are being worked out. Sporter is the playground, on which solutions for tomorrow's road car are being worked out.
Until the early 40s of the 20th century, BMW has created a lot of sports cars, but the concept-kara was not yet ordinary practice. Unfortunately, the Second World War strongly slowed down the development of the entire German industry and BMW is no exception. Moreover, the external control of the occupation forces purposefully slowed down the development of the automotive industry forced restrictions. As a result, the company was able to release his first concept car relatively late.
The first concept car in the modern understanding of this word BMW introduced in 1972, and it was a surprisingly impressive car:
1972 - BMW Turbo is really advanced development for those years. Innovative Sport Cara Concept.
The design of the front of the car, interpreting the ideas laid down in Pontiac GTO 1968, gives tribute to the works of Detroit designers. In general, the body shape is consonant with the advanced development of Lamborghini and develops futuristic ideas of Italian designers.
Special attention is paid to security - a large area of \u200b\u200bglazing provides an excellent review, the driver's workplace was developed taking into account ergonomic requirements. The doors of the "wing of the seagull" complemented a series of designer finds. Also in the design of the concept car BMW, inertial seat belts were used (technical innovation in those days), equipped with the ignition blocking system during the non-profit belt. Two full-fledged prototypes were made. The car had good aerodynamic indicators.
All these developments did not disappear - in 1978, BMW in the Commonwealth with Lamborgini released the M1 model in which many ideas from the first concept car BMW were embodied.
BMW M1, 1978. Serial Sport-Car - Direct BMW Turbo Concept Heir.
After another 10 years, the serial release of the Z-series road vehicles began - they also found the use of some ideas of the first concept car BMW.
BMW Z1 - serial road car, successor part of the design solutions BMW M1.
But in terms of the general design of the BMW, the Z-series has become still new reading the classic appearance of the roadster of the 30s: an elongated hood, a low silhouette, the salon reminds the cockpit. Fortunately, the company did not withdraw part of the mechanisms management levers on the external part of the body, as often happened with racing sports-karas in the 1930s.
In any case, the Z-series for many years has become a stitching for designers and technologists of BMW, which allowed to implement bold ideas into life and mass production.
The Z-series also became for the BMW polygon for working out new technologies and an endless source of joy for admirers of the brand: after the release of Z1 in 1988, Z3 followed by Z3 in 1996, and in 2002 and Z4 - all these models are distinguished by bright recognizable design and follow the traditions of classic roadster.
Separately, it is worth noting the BMW Z8 model.
BMW Z8 Concept It turned out to be so good what he entered into production is practically unchanged.
The first BMW concept under the index Z07 was presented at Tokyo Motor Show in 1997.
The design of the car sends us to the BMW 507 model, produced in 1956-59, and, in the opinion of many fans of the brand, which was one of the most beautiful BMW cars of the post-war period. Creating this concept, BMW designers wanted to show how the model 507 would look if it would be produced until today's days.
Concept-car received so enthusiastic reviews that practically no change went into mass production in 2000 under the BMW Z8 index.
Serial BMW Z8. - The best of the traditions of sports roadster in production.
Fully aluminum body, y-shaped frame and the most powerful one from the production at that time in the production of 5l engine. and 400l / s with a capacity of the car 1700kg provide a BMW Z8 coupe acceleration to 100km / h in 4.7 seconds. All in the best traditions of sports roadster and is available in mass production - BMW is able to turn dreams into reality, to joy to its admirers and envy to other manufacturers.
Historical reference:
At the turn of the 90s and the 2000s in the field of automotive design there was some stagnation.
No, with the interpretations of old ideas everything was fine - as we saw above, many wonderful models were created. But with the development of topical ideas, designers were frankly blamed. Robust experiments in the field of late bio-design, provided us with several boring years in the early 2000s, when all serial cars began to lose personal expressiveness and, to put it mildly, did not differ in originality. The bmw concern did not escape this fate.
2001 - BMW X-Coupe Concept. An attempt to go beyond the Funeral BMW has taken in 2001 with its X Coupe concept.
The Eclectic design of the BMW X-Coupe, which is the citation of American motifs of the late 60s in the interpretation of bio-design, the company tried to explain how "a source of creative inspiration, anticipating the design of the BMW XXI century." The car had an asymmetric body - the design of the right and left parts was significantly different. On the right of the BMW X-Coupe concept car, there was no central stand, and immediately behind the front door began the rear window, which continues the hemisphere to the rear rack from the left side of the body. The BMW X-Coupe Concept trigger opened back along with a solid part of the body and rear glass.
2001 - BMW X-Coupe Concept. That is what brings the lack of control over the designers.
"It is very different from all that was created in our company before," said BMW representatives.
"What happiness that these ideas did not receive incarnation in serial models," we will reply, as simple consumers.
Despite such a controversial ideology, the concept car BMW X-Coupe has become one of the most interesting novelties on the auto show in Detroit, which gives us some idea about the complexity of the situation in the field of automotive design in those years. Leaving sarcasm, it is worth noting that in this model a fairly important tendency to unite in one model of the properties of an off-road car and a sports coupe was scheduled.
Fortunately, in the second half of the 2000s, two iconic events occurred: Ford digestors developed the concept of kinetic design, which gave the most powerful impetus to the development of the entire industry, and BMW engineers managed to allocate the most promising trends in a constructive nature, which provided us with a whole series of brilliant innovations, Among which it is especially to highlight the heir to the constructive ideas of the concept car X-Coupe - BMW Concept X6.
In 2007, the company put several bright innovative concepts at once, but the BMW Concept X6 submitted on the Frankfurt Motor Show was perhaps the most significant.
BMW Concept X6. - First representative of the Sports Activity Coupe class.
Taking this opportunity, BMW showed that not only to make excellent roadster, but also create new classes of cars. BMW Concept X6 became the world's first representative of the Sports Activity Coupe class. Elegant, solid, and at the same time filled with energy - a worthy of the new class. Designers managed to harmoniously gather together all the achievements of previous years, and engineers and technologists supported a high plank of innovative solutions. As a result, the car has not only the smoking appearance, but also inspiring specifications: in the maximum configuration, a two-toned handsome man accelerates to 100km / h in just 3 seconds.
It is not surprising that the BMW Concept X6 concept was met with the audience, especially since the development was in the pre-seventive stage. As a result, in 2008, the serial BMW X6 became the standard of a new class, which is now actively developing by many automakers.
In the future, BMW continued to develop and consolidate success, having pleased the whole series of wonderful and iconic concepts.
2008 - BMW Hommage M1. Thirty years later.
Remember the concept car BMW Turbo and his heir to BMW M1? After 30 years, they come back!
BMW M1 Hommage is a convincing confirmation of how highly the BMW designers appreciate the legacy of the brand, as well as a good example of how modern ideas are able to combine with the famous classical solutions. The concept price found a wide application of the idea of \u200b\u200bHeytek and kinetic design, and the original motives of previous models were not lost. A rare case when the heir to the icon series is not inferior to its eminent predecessors. In the concept of Hommage M1 BMW did not violate the tradition of cooperation with Italian masters established in the series, and the appearance of the car was created by GiorgetTogiugiaro - recognized in the 1999 century car designer, and involved in creating such iconic cars as VW Golf I, Delorean DMC-12, and Lotusesprit S1.
BMW Hommage M1The high assessment of the public and gave rise to a lot of discussion on the possibility of release at least a limited series.
In the same 2008, BMW introduced another one, this time is really a revolutionary concept car: BMW Gina Light Visionary Model.
2008 - BMW Gina Light Visionary Model.Callingthe usual principles of the automotive industry.
Concept challenging existing principles and traditional processes. This is not close to our time High-tech design, but rather a futuristic flight of free thought, really a new word in the history of automotive design. The very case when the basis for the distant future industry is laid in our eyes.
The model name itself is not too characteristic of the company BMW Acronym. Gina is deciphered as Geometry and Functionsin "N" Adaptions, geometry and functions in an enno amount of options. And indeed it is. In this case, a non-traditional approach is applied when the function determines the form, but an innovative solution when the function changes the form.
Constructively, the concept of the concept car BMW Gina Light Visionary Model is made of durable elastic matter stretched to the movable frame. As a result, the car lives and changes depending on the tasks set before him.
BMW Gina. Light Visionary Model can change the shape of the headlights depending on the lighting.
Compare such achievements are not with any analogues while simply does not exist. Thanks to the BMW Gina, the company to this day occupies a confident leading position in the field of advanced design solutions.
It is not surprising that by typing such a tempo, BMW did not stop at the achieved and continued the development of the topic of innovative design. Already the next, 2009, the following sign concept car was presented:
Probably the most bold embodiment of High-tech design, quintessence of high technologies. The car looks like charged energy and ready to break from place at any time. And these are not empty words - the energy installation of BMW Vision EfficientDynamics (call this system the engine - strongly embarrassed) consists of two electric motors, a powerful traction battery and turbodiesel to power the power plant. The entire system issues an enviable moment at 800 N.M., which allows you to develop the speed in 100km / h in 4.8 seconds. Four-wheel drive and many electronic on-board systems allow you to provide almost impossible for the traditional car road characteristics.
Particular attention is paid to the ergonomics of the pilot's workplace - the most important information is projected on the windshield, which also provides additional passive safety.
In the external design of the housing, high manufacturability is traced, emphasizing the ease and aerodynamic perfection of the structure. In general, BMW Vision EfficientDynamics reminds a children's toy designed specifically for adults, and causes a huge range of positive emotions in all interested in the prospects for the development of road transport.
In 2011, this concept car received some development and a new index - BMW i8. The fact that BMW promises to establish the release of serial cars based on these conceptual developments in 2013.
And, of course, this is not all pleasant surprises that prepares BMW at the turn of the 100th anniversary of the company. Already, there is still a development of even more bold ideas that have to be implemented by engineers. And thanks to modern technologies, the future is getting closer. Who knows, perhaps, a few years later we will see on the roads and such wonderful cars.
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Mounted your 100th anniversary. What did you pay attention to BMW? Have they remembered their past? Boasted by fair achievements? Not! In BMW, they thought about the future, they talked about the plans to implement the following projects and hinted in every possible way that they were not going to stop at what they achieved. It is commendable.
But it would still be interesting to look at the past autocontrace. What concepts were created by BMW in the past and how they influenced future models. As far as the influence of the conceptual art of the automotive industry was reborn into serial instances of the BMW mass pop culture.
Let's start learning the concepts of BMW past years.
1972 BMW Turbo Concept (E25) Ancestor M1, 8 Series and Z1
Have you ever heard about half a marriage? Before he was appointed head of the BMW design department in 1970, he managed to distinguish between the Mercedes-Benz 600 (W100), 230 SL Pagoda (W113), as well as the development of Citroen limousine for France's president. In BMW, Turbo Concept, built to the Summer Olympic Games of 1972 in Munich, became one of its first major projects.
Do not pay attention to the door of the "Seagull wing" type, nor on the fact that it was created on a 2002 BMW modified. No one knew what role this futuristic car will play in 40 years. Did not assume it even in the BMW itself. He became the starting point for the development of the supercar M1, 8 Series Grand Tourer and Z1.
Compared to a row six-cylinder engine with a capacity of 273 hp Which was then at 1978, the BMW Turbo Concept had 276 horsepower from a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine with four cylinders. And all this in 1972, a rather curious development of technologies, is not it?
1990 BMW UR-Roadster Concept anticipated the appearance of Z3 Roadster
UR-Roadster Concept now looks ridiculous, but believe me, in the early 90s it was a masterpiece concept. The history of the original Rhodster begins in the late 1980s, at the time when M division has just received his own design department. The first creative task is set for BMW M GmbH "Simple", to offer its vision of the sports rhodster.
He had to be easy, it should have been managed, also in his engine compartment should have accommodated a row six-cylinder engine. Five years after the BMW UR-Roadster was introduced, the works of the designers were transformed into BMW Z3, \u200b\u200b1995.
The Bavarian manufacturer was so proud to develop, which put the maximum effort to his novelty in Goldeneye, the seventeenth franchise film about James Bond. Sheepskin cost the selection, Z3 Roadster produced a real furor on the market.
1991 BMW Z1 Coupe Concept Far Prototype Z3 Coupe
Roadster with raising vertically doors has been progressive, but Z1 Coupe has become a large experiment for BMW. His design has become a present study for Bavarians. Z1 Coupe combined parts of different car genres, it was like a sports car, Shooting Brake (for those who forgot, denotes a sports, luxury wagon), and a crossover. And also, in fashion BMW, he had retractable doors, and his body was made of plastic. But all this is fading compared to the model that was born due to this strange mix of concepts, styles and directions.
Five years after the appearance of Z3 in the body of the Rostcher, the Z3 coupe arrived in the public. It was possible to state the fact, the concept, non-commodity, strange and peculiar turned into a finished product, which very quickly became legendary. He still looks great and cool, even today. I think many will agree with me.
The top of development Z3 became a car with a short, but formidable name- z3m. Z3M coupe with 320 strong row 6 cylinder motor S54 series. At maximum speed, his cheerful roar was difficult to confuse with something.
1991 BMW Z11 Concept and 1993 BMW Z15 Concept, first steps to i3
2000 BMW Z22 Concept Vision from the past 2 Series Active Tourer and 2 Series Gran Tourer
Not so long ago, BMW very suddenly revealed cards on the development of a front-wheel drive model. After the first rumors and underwent, the Bavarians did not wait long and really introduced their first front-wheel drive into the series. It was a strange and unexpected move.
Right holder illustration Getty. Image Caption. Top Gear believes that M1 Hommage is far from the coolest prototype created by the Bavarian Motor Living Plant
For its almost century history, BMW has experienced a lot of iconic events. But among all of them, one can allocate one, most importantly: salvation from bankruptcy with the help of lu-pharosa of small poly.
The fact is that although BMW has quite successfully produced aviation motors during the first and second world wars and released a number of legendary cars (for example, a delightful BMW 507), by the end of the 1950s, the company was close to financial collapse, and her hardly sold.
If it were not for the success of a modest small BMW 700 (and its predecessor ISETTA), then we would probably have to live in a world where there would be no later BMW M5, M3 and even three-liter CSL. It would be sad, gloomy world, consider Top Gear editors.
So all auto-mediatestams are worth removing the hat in front of the small rear-wheel drive BMW with the engine located behind the engine: it paved the company road to prosperity and financial independence, giving her the opportunity to grow, develop and experiment.
Right holder illustration BMW Group. Image Caption. BMW 328 Hommage (2011): aluminum, leather, power and nostalgia in one bottleIn some sense, it indirectly led to the emergence of masterpieces of the design thought presented in this article.
We offer to your attention a selection of BMW concepts - we inspired us to presented to the public at the beginning of this year. Concept 3.0 CSL Hommage. He, of course, is good, but this is not the most crazy and steep prototype of the Bavarian Motor Living Plant.
Look at what were still.
Spicup, Design Atelier Bertone
Right holder illustration Bonhams.This concept was shown in 1969 at the Geneva Motor Show, and it was created now the bankrupt Italian Designer Atelier Bertone.
The machine was built on the basis of model 2000 CS, and one of its distinguishing features were steel roof panels that retain in the safety arc.
Front SPICUP was very similar to Alfa Romeo Montreal and on Lamborghini Espada (also the works of the designer Marchello Gandini), and under his hood 2,5-liter row six BMW was installed.
Concept-car shown in Geneva, recently been put up for sale with auction. (Photo: Bonhams)
E25 TURBO (1972)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.Looks familiar? Nothing amazing: This is the predecessor of a wonderful BMW M1, built to the Summer Olympic Games of 1972 in Munich as a platform for running new technologies - including a complex radar system that warned on borders and other obstacles.
The recognizable design style of the marriage field was later embodied in the BMW M1, 8 series and even in the Z1 model (the notorious Roadster with the doors retractable down).
Nazca Concept (1991)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.And this is a completely different matter. The concept car of BMW Nazca M12 was the debut work of the 26-year-old Fabrizio of Judjaro, which was inspired by the Formula 1 cars and the racing cars of the group C. A good source of inspiration, which is here to say.
The carrying frame and the car body were made of carbon fiber, and light alloys were widely used in the project, which made it possible to reduce the mass of the prototype to 1,100 kilograms.
The hood and trunk Nazca were combined into one element; The car had a covered windshield cabin and 360 degree visibility.
And in it there was a 300-strong five-liter Motor V12, taken from the 850i model, located between the axes and the aggregated five-speed manual gearbox.
The rear-wheel drive car had a door in the form of "wing of the seagull", which immediately gives him a lot of additional advantages in karma.
Concept Z18 (1995)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.This is a petty misunderstanding - the first roadster-SUV BMW. It is worth noting that he is still the last.
Perhaps there are weighty commercial reasons, although he himself, of course, is excellent.
The car had a V-shaped eight-cylinder engine, four-wheel drive, plastic body panels, mounted on a steel frame, and its interior could be reconfigured at will.
BMW, please let him in the series! Not too late.
Z9 Gran Turismo (1999)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.From this prototype, the return of the BMW 6 series to the modern range of the company began. Drew this car Chris Bangle, and showed it in 1999.
Inside, it was equipped with an early version of the currently familiar electronics management system, the IDRIVE, and even deeper the four-liter diesel was hidden in his internships, later moved to the 740D model.
The body, of course, was made of the usual carbon fiber panels on the aluminum frame, but had one important distinguishing feature: the door "Gull wing".
The fact that BMW eventually decided not to make a sixth series with such doors, does not give in to explain.
X Coupe Concept (2001)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.X Coupe struck the public at the Detroit Motor Show 2001, and remains striking and to this day.
So in BMW interpret the phrase "push the boundaries of the possible". Well, borders really obediently move away.
X Coupe is a crazy all-wheel drive compartment based on the X5 parquet SUV, with a row six-cylinder engine in three liters volume and entirely folded the back of the body.
Is this car been completely torn off from real life? In general, there is no: in a sense, this is a progenitor model X6, as well as many other SUV-compartment.
So with this alien unit BMW again turned out to be the first.
Concept coupe Mille Miglia (2006)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.The Mille Miglia concept compartment is an illustration to how the future people from the 1950s were represented. The future looked thumbling.
The common form of the machine is a clear reference to the classic model 328.
Under the carbon fiber panels, the Z4 M Coupe chassis was hidden. And this means an incendiary 3,2-liter row engine of six cylinders with even more incended 340 horsepower inside.
The same motor, by the way, stood in the BMW M3 version of E46.
CS Concept (2007)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.The size of this car was with 7 series, and she was seriously upset. Why?
Yes, because BMW first spoke to talk about her on the conveyor, but at the end of 2008 the damn crisis spoiled everything, and the conveyor did not happen.
CS, however, the thing! Fast, smooth lines, "engine suitable for a dynamic character", low shark profile. Great.
Gina Concept (2008)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.First we will deal with the information simpler: this concept car is built on the basis of the Z8 rhodster. On this information easier ends.
The body of this car is a flexible material stretched on a wire frame, reinforced by carbon fiber.
According to the plan, the driver must be able to change the shape of the machine directly in motion.
At that time, designer Chris Bangle believed that this is the future: let customers independently create cars corresponding to their needs.
But if you look at parking in front of any supermarket, it becomes clear that the prophet from Bangla was so-so.
We think in Top Gear that it was all the case in a potential threat from hooligan armed with scissors.
M1 Hommage Concept (2008)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.BMW loves his story - and how not to love her if there were such cars like M1?
This bright unit was first seen at the exhibition of the historic CONCORSO D "Eleganza in 2008 - in honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of BMW M1, the first and only real supercar of the German company.
The concept of similar with his ancestor is the appearance: a low, wide and arrogant profile straight from the 1970s, somewhat overwhelmed due to the characteristic design language of Chris Bangla.
Nothing reported about the engine, it was purely visual work. But only imagine 12 cylinders under this hood ...
Vision Efficient Dynamics (2009)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.Ved appeared in 2009 and instantly became one of the most discussed conceptual worst of recent years, in particular, because it all consisted of different layers. Well, the technical filling was interesting, of course.
The hybrid turbo engine seemed to hint on the fact that according to dynamic characteristics, the machine can be comparable to the M3 model, but at the same time throwing less than 100 grams of carbon dioxide to the mileage kilometer.
Anyway, how to eat alone cakes and do not get fat. Moreover, this concept has reached the conveyor as a model I8.
Vision Connected Drive (2011)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.So BMW sees the future in which the car organically becomes a continuation of the driver's brain, and without painful lobotomy.
This concept, shown in 2011, embodies the vision of the world in which cars are combined into one network.
It is capable of projecting three-dimensional images on the windshield; has an "emotional browser" loading information about the location where it goes; And even equipped with multicolor fiber optic elements in body panels. Plague.
BMW 328 Hommage Concept (2011)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.It's immediately - yes. Yes, what "yes"! It is difficult to even decide where to start.
The concept of 328 hommage is a dedication to the classic BMW 328 of the 1930s. And it was one of the best racing cars in the history of the company.
The body is made of carbon black plastic reinforced, and under the hood - a three-liter row six. Aluminum, skin, power and nostalgia in one bottle. Give two.
Concept Zagato Coupe (2012)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.Another debutant Concorso D "Eleganza. This handsome man, based on the Z4 model, appeared in 2012 in an attempt to revive interest in manually built by racing cars of the past.
The whole body is made by hand as a unique coupe of the BMW 328 of the late 1930s. The idea is called Vmax Concept - which in general, probably, means "fast apparatus".
Radiator grille recognizable BMWS, the roof has the form of a double cap, and the rear part is made in the chopped form "Camma's tail" (this design developed by Swiss Vulibald Kamm improves streamlining).
The body is entirely molded in one form.
Vision Gran Turismo (2013)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.It is, strictly speaking, not that concept, and a virtual car, designed for the Gran Turismo computer game 6. We don't know anything more about it.
Concept 3.0 CSL Hommage (2015)
Right holder illustration BMW Group.The very first BMW CSL regularly pops up in the lists of the best creations of the Bavarian Concern, and this is quite understandable: it does not wear a nickname "Batmobile".
This concept car, shown on Concorso D "Eleganza 2015 - yellow greetings with a wonderful race car in the 1970s, and this is a thing.
The body is made of fiber-powered plastic. The design read the characteristic notes of the original CSL, and at the same time it is a completely modern slaughter apparatus. That the doctor prescribed.
Here is our list and approached the end. You can also mention (google, if there is a desire) BMW Hurricane 1964 concepts, BMW 528/502 and M8, which in a single copy lives at the headquarters of the company ...
The new BMW 8-series concept (BMW 8-Series Concept) 2017 appears before connoisseurs of classic and old cars at the Elegance contest Concorso D "Eleganza Villa D" Este on the shores of Lake Como in Italy told the world about the latest generation of BMW 8-Series. In our review, the concept of BMW 8-series - the first news, photos, video, specifications and the preliminary price of the stylish Bavarian sports car premium class. According to preliminary information price The first-mention of the new generation of the 8-series - two-door will be less than 100,000 euros per version of the BMW 840i Coupe with a 326-strong gasoline engine.
BMW 8-Series Concept is a harbinger of a whole new BMW 8-Series family, returning to the automotive market after almost 20 years after removal from the production of the first generation BMW 8 Series (E31), manufactured from 1989 to 1999. According to preliminary information, the German manufacturer prepares 3 models of the new 8-series generation: two-door BMW 8-Series Coupe will enter the market in 2018, then in 2019 will present an open Dual Double BMW 8-Series Convertible, and the four-door BMW 8-Series Gran Coupe promises appear in 2020.
Interestingly, BMW AG for the 8 Series family registered a whole placer of trademarks 825, 830, 835, 845, 850, 860 and, of course, M850 and M8. The presence is at the heart of the newest Clar platform, on which new generations are also based and, allows you to equip the auto with a huge multiple engines, from four cylinder 2.0-liter to 6.6-liter with 12 !!! BMW 8-series cylinders will have a plug-in hybrid version.
The main competitor of the Bavarian novelties of the 8-series dual hours and. So the struggle for buyers between the German producers of large two-door premium cars promises to be quite interesting.
It makes no sense to create a solvent portrait of the BMW 8-Series Concept, it is better to enjoy our readers with the help of photo and video materials to admire the designer intricacies that allowed to create a real masterpiece. It remains to add that the concept is affecting the laser-luminous headlights of head light, huge 21-inch discs and original overall lanterns with three-dimensional LED graphics.
Salon BMW 8-Series Concept, however, as the serial version of the BMW 8-Series Coupe, with 2 + 2 planting formula. The architecture of the front panel and the central console of the novelty, the decoration of the steering wheel, the seats of the first and second row, the location of the controls and equipment may cause the fans of the Bavarian company bewilderment ... everything is so unusual, but it is convenient and ergonomically.
The main thing in the cabin is a clear business driver, in the workplace of which the main accents are placed. Steering wheel with hand-made aluminum polished petals and hubs, a digital device combination, a large color screen of the Multimedia set IDRIVE, a touch pad control panel of climate control and auxiliary functions of a car on the center console, ideally located under the right hand of the driver control selector and the IDRIVE washer, The strata / stop engine is brightly red and the parking brake drive key.
The sports chairs of the buckets according to the reviews of German journalists, who have time to give it to the presentation in Italy to estimate the concept of BMW, lively provide a comfortable and assembled landing, and the finishing materials cause a real delight. Genuine leather, Nappa and Alcantara leather, polished aluminum and a huge number of carbon fiber details.
Technical characteristics of the BMW 8-Series Concept 2017 The manufacturer is not in a hurry to disclose. One can only assume that the serial versions of the BMW 8-series will receive gasoline and diesel engines from the BMW 5-Series and BMW 7-Series promotional models, along with 8 Steptronic automatic transmission, rear-wheel drive and full XDrive drive.
