Want To Know What Most Next-Gen BMW's Will Look Like? Look VERY Closely At This Design Language

I hope so their sales will go down for sure.Way too extreme.Did you see how hideous that interior is?

— autopro (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 1:46:16 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -35   

Yes, they need this ASAP. Good bye Quattroporte.

— GTR35 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:31:41 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

I love Muscle cars so I am digging the concept BMW's flanks!!! I love the rear as well.

The front end is where the problem is. The signature grill is too large and reveals too much of the radiator. The hood is distrating to the overall beauty of the car. Lastly the face look too squat and wide. Intersting look though.

— Porschinator (View Profile)

Posted on 1/30/2008 3:21:20 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

I'm at -34 can we go for -50 BMW is on the way out their days are numbered.

— autopro (View Profile)

Posted on 1/31/2008 1:09:43 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Silky Smooth...!

— RealitySmack (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 1:50:53 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

I noticed that too- the sort of Dracula-esque cloak-like seats.

All I can say is that the interior looks like it was designed by Daniel Leibeskind, whose designs are interesting in their novelty, but are throughly strange to be inside.

— cdoke (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:21:32 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

The Denver Art Museum is intesting- I know people who have become sick inside of it. There are no vertical walls. The most interesting place is at the top of the main staircase looking down. The stair case, for lack of a better way to put is sort of build around a cone which has its tip in the ground. So when you look down from the top it has a sort of spiraling inward feeling, but the balcony isn't vertical. Your mind however sort of tips it that way, so you don't feel like you are looking down, it almost feels like you are looking at about 60 degrees from horizontal. The whole effect is very tunnel like, but people are walking on the stairs, so it feels like you are not experiencing the save gravitational vector.

So essentially, it feels every once in a while like you have walked into an M.C. Escher lithograph.

— cdoke (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:37:45 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

I spelled his name wrong; it is Libeskind.

— cdoke (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:45:37 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -5   

i just hope BMW does something about the 3series's interior and adding a little bit more dramatic lines to the overall exterior wouldnt hurt

— KZ258 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 1:53:10 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

I say we should wait until the next 7 series comes out. This CS really shows how the next large sporty sedan should look like.

One last thing I really expect from BMW is that they should go back to the driver oriented cockpit design.

The current 3, 5 and 7 interiors should go away soon.

— MrGunFun (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:07:16 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

So it looks like future BMW's will be controlled by not one, but four iDrive knobs, interesting. But I like the styling, very bold and agressive, yet luxurious at the same time. I like the 4 door sports coupe look.

— PlanB (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:14:18 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

I love the look...i think the eyelids on the headlights are kinda stupid though.

— sholemon (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:29:56 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

You never know, with BMW. Look at the Z4 for reference!

— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 5:56:54 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

I like the overall idea, nice. The outrageous features/details I'm sure will be toned down for production. What's with the quad stacked tailpipes? have they take a page from the IS-F

— _43LE (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:31:52 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Side view is nice, but please stop with the angry fish look in the front. It's a nice "Aston BMW"....but since it's BMW's design, it must be original, right???

— bigmotov (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:40:04 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

interesting design exercise, but this needs some refinement. i really like the coupy sedan design, as well as the contours on the hood. but the dodge charger quarterpanels aren't too appealing.

it's a good CONCEPT.

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:43:06 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

I'm glad BMW chooses to go against the grain when it comes to their future concepts. I am so tired of people crying about the Bangle designs. I am glad BMW looks at what cars might look like in the future. Everyone wants cars to look predictable and all look the same, why? i don't see why a design shouldn't disturb you a bit, make you think, or ponder, make you visualize and give you a mental voyage almost every time you look at it. Who wants to look at a car once and say, it's nice, its elegant, it's a great step up from the car it replaces, end of story, hop in and drive, isn't this a website for people "enthused" about cars. If you want your predictable designs, go stand in a Ford dealership and bask in it's boredom, even Ford is starting to step up design wise to. Bangle has changed car designs forever, he has taken the adventurous, exotic, awe inspiring characteristics often associated with Ferraris and Lambos and such, and brought them to the mainstream, have you heard the guy talk about the designs of BMW, have you heard how the cars articulate the very intelligent perspective BMW pursues in their design language, when was the last time you saw an Audi designer on youtube chatting about their design concepts, or a Merc or Lexus designer, hardly, by the way all these other car companies make great looking cars, but cars should be something more at times, and that's what BMW sees, they don't always hit the nail on the head 100% of the time, but my do they come close. In the case of the X6 who cares about function, it can seat 4 people and it's a new segment of cars, think progressive, this is not the middle ages, i thought cars would have been flying by now, but i'll settle for what we got now.

— spiritfilled (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:43:28 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

There's no doubt that this is a very handsome shape, and could easily serve as the basis for a very striking BMW 'design language', but...

Those headlights really need to be re-worked.

The 'clouded' upper portion of the headlight assembly seem very out-of-place, and have a 'cut-line' that meets up with no other 'character-line' found anywhere else on the vehicle's bodywork or grill... Very Amateuristic.

Additionally, very much like the current 5-Series, the headlights have all the visual appeal of a cheap whore wearing far too much eyeshadow, and a sleepy one at that!

Great design, as opposed to fleeting fashion, should never resort to such 'frivolously trendy' visual elements.

Note: These Are My Opinions, And I Stand By Them.

— DaHarder (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:48:43 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Widen What lead?

— LexSucks (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:52:00 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -4   

wow, they are getting good now

— pchera01 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:58:10 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -4   

Its a great design direction from BMW. I think that BMW's designs are very avant garde, and many people who hate BMWs do not understand that. I think BMW's designs under Bangle was too advance for its days. If its so ugly and bad, then why do others copy it?

I think BMW is usually leading the way in designs for the future, whereas companies like Audi designs very contemporary cars, which are also beautiful...

— ThierryHenry14 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 2:58:14 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

The world is changing, what subprime has shown is that when prices get so ahead of the curve consumers don't turn off they just can't aford the prices anymore. Look for new generation cars to be lean and mean in MPG and bang for the buck. Their will always be the well healed who will want luxury cars but for the people who thought buying a million dollar home with arm mortages and now realize they were playing a fools game.
The same will and is happening with MFG like BMW and Lexus, leasing a car for $600 or more a month for the middle class is going away, the world will see more normal pricing of cars that are efficent and in touch, the luxury only MFG with cars 50k or more will see a major downturn in the future. Housing told us not evrybody can live a millioaires life and the same is true with auto's?

— chuck717 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 3:13:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -4   

The CS concept is stunning from every angle.

We will have to wait to see how these design cues are incorporated when the new 7-series makes it debut. And that day cant come soon enough!!

To me, The new 7 is the most anticipated car of the year, cant wait.

— Chip (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 3:14:43 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

Little touches here and there other than the big picture. The headlights have little BMW insignias cut out of the side of the projectors. VW already puts little VW logos on the headlamp bulb covers.

Aside from that, I like the all touch screen windows and locks. Very new with things like the iphone and my LG Venus. My only concern for that technology in a car in anyplace other than the HVAC and stereo would be the slip up of touching it with your elbow or by mistake.

— Whelan (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 3:18:26 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

BMW is by far the best car company!!! The pictures shown are awesome!!!

— bmwfan1513 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 3:42:13 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

Vorsprung dur technik!

— EnvyofyouRS5 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 3:45:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -8   

There's no doudt the pressure from Lexus is pushing bmw to the limit.You've got to hand it to them though their not afraid to take chances,good or bad.They don't copy,but i still think only the side view looks good.

— autopro (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 3:57:03 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

Yea! they have a 70year head start.LOOK OUT in the future!!!I don't care who buys soccer mons ,old ladies,old men,White,black,hispanic,Lexus takes everybody's money.BTW our parent company sells about 9million more cars than BMW.Toyota could buy them cash and just close them down.

— autopro (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 5:45:00 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -6   

'our' do you work for Toyota? Do they send you checks for what you do here?

Get a life.

— pushrod27 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 5:53:14 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Yea Star BMW has been getting their ass kicked in the Largest car Market in the World.The USA seven years in a row.How many mor ass kickings do you want?

— autopro (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 4:29:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -7   

"In US Lexus has the poseurs soccer moms to thank for buying their SUVs and helping their overall sales, but then again is just US, small or big is just one market. Globally where it really counts BMW smashes Lexus. Period."

Wow, Star, where do I start?!?! It doesn't matter if you're a Lexus or BMW fan...your comment was just rediculously, ummmmm DUMB! First off, don't compare "globally" and profit with Toyota (Lexus). Second, why does it matter who's buying what? Third, I'm sure now that you've just made BMW aware of the fact that the U.S. is "just one market", they will abandon all their efforts in the current largest auto market.

— bigmotov (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 5:19:12 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -4   

This design is light years ahead of what the current 5, 6 & 7 series look like. They will sell many of these suckers, a lot more than the current gen for sure. Looks great!

— gasguzzler (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 5:25:59 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

"If you think BMW has peaked or their best days are behind them then you would be wrong."

Absolutely, and this is what amazes me about BMW. Say what you will about their cars, but they are an amazing company. They balance profits, sales and prestige perfectly... their cars simply don't lose that BMW mystique, or the "magic feel."

The CS is just stunning. Absolutely beautiful.

— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 5:54:32 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

If they can make their cars look like this then sure that will be great. But the other companies are also going to improve their design and will come up with stunning new designs as well. Audi's new design philosophy embodied in the R8 is striking and awesome at the least. Also if jaguar finally decides to make their cars look like the CXF then the jaguars will also look astounding, actually to me the CXF looks better than the BMW CS. So clearly to think that BMW will dominate the industry in terms of design is a bit overextrapolated statement. And also think about Lexus LFA design being boiled down to their smaller design.

— farabira1 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 6:27:25 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

It's much nicer.
They are directly trying to hit that Lexus L-Finesse market hard.

— adamsaf723 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 8:50:00 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

L-Finesse = We have no design language at all

L-Finesse = We copy the bigboys

L-Finesse = We rebadge Toyotas

L-Finesse = Our cars are for old people

L-Finesse = We sell cars to people who dont enjoy driving

ISF = Is So F*cked

Lets see if I can hit -20 before the nights over, deboost away.

— Chip (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 9:19:08 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

when i was at the services area today, i was speaking to a few BMW reps, just like them, im 100% the new 7 series body design wil be like the CS, the only arguement we had was about the grill, im guessing 6 series grill?...

— Denali (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 10:03:34 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

chip,
LOL, how about Bitches-MammasBoys-Wannabes?

Audi/Acura taillights.
Mitsu-evo headlights.
'69 Firebird grill

I see Chris no-talent dropped his beloved bangle butt and flamer design to give his always original design theme a sexy-Lexi L-finesse ass (front slanted taillights and all).

Wow, where could I have seen those exhaust pipes from?

I don't suppose Bungle was looking at a Countach when he came up with the idea for that roof brake light? The outline sure looks familiar.

Lastly, why did they put so much eye-shadow on this car? The earlier CS (the fake one) looked meaner.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 10:45:27 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

The V8 twin-turbo would fit very nicely in this next-gen 7-series. The exterior is just stunning.

I think BMW just returned the Mercedes-Benz serve.

— weaponX (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2008 11:28:52 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Have you ever driven one? I never understood either until I test drove the 335i. What amazing machines...

— gasguzzler (View Profile)

Posted on 1/30/2008 12:53:11 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

this car is amazing...
the design is wonderfull <3 Excellent job BMW! ;-D

*wants one*

— BmwCarGuyO9 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/30/2008 5:29:45 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Jaguar CXF looks better than the BMW CS.

— farabira1 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/31/2008 5:19:08 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

WOW so much B* around here:

1] No such GT-R resemblance.
This came out came out even before the pictures of the GT-R. And it takes time for both to be build, so unless BMW and Nissan spyied each other of years, no such resembalnce.

2] The tail lights are from the 5er streched in an L shape (typical BMW).

3] Grill, rember the Z8 or its inspiration the 507 (with its big wide grille and shark nose look japanese fantic boys and girls ?!).
The new pedestrian laws in Europe means the nose must be higher and "bulky-er" and to resolve cooling the automakers are going (back) to the big bad grilles. Everyone's doing it, BMW, MB, Audi, Peugeot, Maserati, Aston etc.

— DarkOneForce (View Profile)

Posted on 1/31/2008 5:29:02 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Darkone,
Slanted lights are typical BMW? The E46 didn't have slanted taillights (nor did any of the preceeding generatsion). Nice try though. If you squint hard enough, then those exhaust pipes won't really be from the LS.

Chip,
I never knew bankers drove A/B and 1-series econo boxes. Europe is a lot poorer than I thought, you should go find some oil to sell so you don't get dragged down by the US economy.

How about Broads-Milfs-Wussies?

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/31/2008 8:39:59 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

BMW3,
CTS outruns and outbrakes a 3-series, and it's a better looking, roomier car to boot. Could it be Uncle Sam is getting ready to lay a 3rd beat down on the Fuhrer?

Anyway...
Laughing stock would be a BMW that competes on price against a Mazda and tries to claim its a luxury vehicle.
Laughing stock would be selling more cars but making less money.
Laughing stock would be claiming how special and unique your cars are, but pricing lower and lower so more and more people can be "special".
Laughing stock would be touting how independent you are and then copying everything the big boys do.
Laughing stock would be charging 1.9% financing and claiming only rich people can afford your cars.
Laughing stock would be looking down on American cars and designs, then hiring an American as your head designer only to see American designs surpass your own.
Laughing stock would be claiming hybrids are just a fad, then monkeying your competitor and producing one that's no where near as good.
Laughing stock would be crying to the EU about how you can't compete if you have to make your cars cleaner.
Laughing stock would be claiming how your customers are all enthusiasts who love the smooth shifting stick eventhough the majority of your cars are ordered with automatics.
Laughing stock is a car company that has to rely on "magic feel" to differentiate itself because it can nolonger compete.
Laughing stock would be designing a car that looks like Dame Edna.
Finally, laughing stock would be BMW and it flock of ESL sheep.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/31/2008 8:52:26 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

The cymbalta in the medicine cabinet. Take one.

— Dr550 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/31/2008 10:49:05 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

I like direction of the CS concept and where it’s headed. Once again BMW is setting the bar for a new generation of design. As criticized by many, the exterior Bengal design is now being replicated by quite a few manufacturers. So while they perfect their own Bengal design, BMW is moving on. I'm most excited about the interior. Looks like Bimmer is going back to the E46 design where the driver has been given majority of the controls, without completely isolating the passenger. We shall see…still too early to tell though.

— corelink (View Profile)

Posted on 2/1/2008 1:24:08 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Definitely NOT my cup of tea. I must be one of the many that BMW chose to leave behind when they adopted a styling that is more appealing to a younger audience. At the ripe old age of 48, I look forward to getting a Bentley Continental GTC, and a Gallardo (as the toy).

— Steve (View Profile)

Posted on 2/1/2008 5:43:32 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1