Concept BMW Concept Skytop

[klier]

This image shot looks great and I do think this car has the face that the 7-series needs. It would make a brilliant mid life revamp LCI for the ugly front of the G70.

Incredible the 7er has to be brought in here. The hood of the 7er sits like half a meter higher and has vastly different proportions compared to the 8er. How on earth is that going to work?

 

[Mick Briesgau]

This image shot looks great and I do think this car has the face that the 7-series needs. It would make a brilliant mid life revamp LCI for the ugly front of the G70.

Making a Frankenstein 7er isn’t the way to go. A filigree front combined with the high, monolithic side and rear? That wouldn’t work, Rolf.

 

[Mick Briesgau]

Hmm, looks like @klier is thinking the same. And we even didn’t even confer

 

[bmwblog]

Could the front end preview a FL for the 8er?

M

No

 

[SKY]

Besides the possibility of the car being produced on a very limited scale, can’t see its design going anywhere. It does not fit with the current G series language nor goes in line with the NK one.

Guess we should simply appreciate it for what it is.

 

[azeez samara]

Source : Bmwblog

 

[Rolf]

Incredible the 7er has to be brought in here. The hood of the 7er sits like half a meter higher and has vastly different proportions compared to the 8er. How on earth is that going to work?

The slim lights are already on the front of the 7 as DRL and BMW could use the same grill but slightly upsized and larger intakes with the same design, but certainly agree that it wouldnt be easy to graft due to the massive height of the 7 bonnet.

 

[klier]

Guess we should simply appreciate it for what it is.

Quite right. It even has the M5 CS V8 I believe.

Simply refreshing to see a BMW once again without all the shiny black plastic and carbon bits on the outside. It's so.......clean.

 

[SKY]

Source : Bmwblog

I was about to post them. Spectacular pics Horatiu @bmwblog

 

[Uygar]

It had to be a Mercedes. BMW did the design that Mercedes should have done.

It's funny how the Mercedes is going full on overstyling mode whereas it's the exact opposite with BMW. Weird times. The PureSpeed concept was such a letdown. It looks like a one-off SL Mansory.

 

[Design FIRST]

The best image yet IMHO. Here, it looks simply fabulous.

 

[bmwblog]

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[martinbo]

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I beat you by two days with posting your own video

 

[Merc1]

It’s a beautiful car for sure.

M

 

[PHYBENZ]

It's like BMW forgot that they had committed to showing a concept at this event and put something together a week before. Outdated interior and a front ripped off the Maybach Concept. Pretty lame.

 

[martinbo]

a front ripped off the Maybach Concept.

Because of the ultra slim headlights? Then superficially, yes, that's one commonality but for the rest of it, I don't see it.

The Maybach concept's headlight placement is discernibly different - being located squarely on the front wings and approaching the grille at a different point to that of the Skytop concept:

The Maybach's execution of this is actually more elegant and has a coach-built look about it because that's what it is - a standalone concept.

The BMW is very clearly based on the existing 8er and its canted-forward front-end is closer to BMW DNA than that Maybach concept.

 

[Centurion]

It's like BMW forgot that they had committed to showing a concept at this event and put something together a week before. Outdated interior and a front ripped off the Maybach Concept. Pretty lame.

In other words: The 8-Series is selling poorly and will be discontinued next year. Why don't we explore reskinning its body and charge 3-4 times more.

 

[Mars1965]

It's like BMW forgot that they had committed to showing a concept at this event and put something together a week before. Outdated interior and a front ripped off the Maybach Concept. Pretty lame.

BMW can say Mercedes copied the hood design and headlights from the Mille Miglia concept introduced by BMW in 2006. Stop this copy this, copy that nonsense.

 

[SCOTT27]

BMW can say Mercedes copied the hood design and headlights from the Mille Miglia concept introduced by BMW in 2006. Stop this copy this, copy that nonsense.

Split Headlights were always a thing at BMW.

 

[bmwblog]

I beat you by two days with posting your own video

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