With the spectacular Vision Next 100 show car BMW to the 100. Birthday gift. But Munich doesn't always need such a prestigious occasion to present an extravagant study. Especially at the Concorso D'Eleganza Villa d'Este on Lake Como, the Munich-based company presents breathtaking concepts year after year. Five nice design finger exercises with the BMW logo of the past years:
The Roadster GINA, whose outer skin is made of textile, is unmistakably a vision model. The sounding name, however, is rather mundane, the abbreviation for "geometry and functions in N-fold expression". But the sight is all the more spectacular: the GINA Light vision model has neither a front apron nor bonnet, side walls, doors, wheel arches, roof, trunk lid or rear end. It is replaced by a new metal structure consisting of a few elements, over which a highly durable and extremely stretch-resistant special fabric is stretched. When the doors open, the fabric wrinkles a little, otherwise it looks seamlessly futuristic.
The 75. The birthday of the BMW 328 sports car was used by the Munich-based 2011 to design a study. The front 328 homage is long and wide, the rear sporty short. As in the classic model, doors are sought in vain. The roadster consists largely of carbon fiber composites (CFRP) and thus carries the lightweight construction philosophy of the original from 1936 into the modern era. As a reminder of the prototype, the roadster's very flat windshield is divided. Four-point belts from racing cite past racing successes as well as the wide leather belts that mimic the quick-release fasteners on the side of the bonnet.
2012 showed the Bavarians at the Villa d'Este a coupé variant of the roadster Z4. The Milan-based design company Zagato participated, whose handwriting is clearly recognizable. Among other things, the typical double hump in the roof line for the body or the vertically cut edge at the rear. From the front, the new model is more strongly modeled than the original, with a similarity to the later hybrid sports car i8.
The transalpine cooperation between BMW and the design company Pininfarina gave rise to what a two-door 7er could look like: the Gran Lusso Coupé, also presented on Lake Como, was presented by the 2013. The silhouette is classic: long bonnet, sloping roof line. The BMW kidney rises self-confidently, flanked by ultra-modern, narrow headlights. The Hofmeister kink on the C-pillar is literally staged: the famous contradictory swing that the former BMW design boss had invented continues like in fine waves, first set in chrome and then flowing out over the metal skin. The interior also has plenty of luxury, including wood from an 48.000 year-old bog oak.
BMW sees lightweight construction as one of its core competencies, as Munich once again demonstrated in Italy last year. With a tribute to the BMW 3.0 CSL from 1971. The coupé is considered the forefather of the brand's sports models. Where the original aluminum and plexiglass ensured low weight, the modern material carbon was used. The bright yellow painted body looks jagged, LED lights with x-shaped graphics are reminiscent of the taped headlights of long-distance racing cars. The three-part roof line and the all-round decorative edge with flanking graphics are also meant as a bow to the original. The large rear wing, which earned the model the nickname "Batmobile", is not missing.