Here's the quote from Leftlanenews (pics from Autobild.de)...

 

Rear shot looks like a Mercedes SL

 

For the record, I'd take one.

 

Front looks great, wheels are hot, but they need to "macho" up the rear end a bit, and make it more defined.

 

awesome another CGI

 

I swear these CGI's always look better than the end product. BTW, how big are those wheels?

 

I know, and I'm so sick of seeing them... or an artists rendition.

I'd rather see a concept or the designers actual clay model. I guess I just hate all of the speculation. Today its like they hire people to make CGI's just to draw attention to the news article of speculations...


Then people take it as to be "the design"... it's just so repititous and old at this point.

When you see it in sheetmetal and it has a MSRP set, it's time to start discussing... until then it's basically a pipe dream.

 

I like it, alot. And I'm surprised to say that.

Regarding CGI's, what's so bad about em? It gives you an idea about how the final car may look like. All cars come from just such designs. So I don't really see what's so bad about them. Would you be happier if there were no pictures in this thread?

 

looks like an extended M6... they need to come up with something better

 

Yeah, it's called the Aston Martin Vantage convertible.

 

this car looks way better than the M6.

 

2010 is quite a little bit away... although I have to say, from just these concept CGI's, it's looking really good...!

 

If it's from BMW, then ya it's cool. Or from one of BMW's artists!

The problem is 99% of them are from the magazines or an online publications artist. All of them are just trying to be drama queens by drawing attention creating what *they* think it's going to look like... in reality their photos have no relation what so ever to the actual car being designed/built. So no, they don't give you any *real* idea what the final car will look like, they give you an idea of what their artist thinks it should look like... who has no relation what so ever to the actual designers.

THEN, you have people who call these photos "concept" photos. Which they aren't, if they were from BMW yes they would be. They're a 3rd party artists rendition of what he see's the car being. If you like the 3rd party artist rendition, buy the photo... it's the closest your going to come to the vehicle looking like that.

People act like the images come from the people actually involved in the design of the vehicles. Most of the time they don't...

Now look at the post below mine... who is "they", BMW? i don't think so... those photos are not from BMW... "i like the older Z8 much better"... lol, you haven't seen the BMW design for the new one yet... so how can you say that?

This is why I don't like these CGI photos that don't come from the designers...

Although obviously from the marketing perspective the photos do work for the magazines/online publications post below mine as example ... lol (and yes, I do know that sometimes their artists are allowed to meet with the actual designers and then create an artists rendition, however this isn't an example of that)

LoL, maybe I just wish everyone would read between the lines sometimes And yes, I prefer some pics to no pics.

 

Looks like they're trying to turn a Z4 into a Merc SL to me.. I like the older Z8 much better.

 

Can you imagine this car with that exact styling with the M5 engine!

 

 

so wait, where are these pics coming from then? Do we know who made these??

cuz I agree, if they are just some random designs by someone not involved in any way with BMW, yes, YES, that's tres

and oh yea - you guys can have the M5's V10, I'll take the 605hp V12..

 

If they build it and use the V12 it's gonna be hella $$$. Atleast with the M5 engine it should sell for under $100K.