[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by Fuller

The bottom picture looks better. The more "traditional" kidney grill doesn't fit well within the context of the whole car. The design language of the concept is muscular and aggressive, so a prominent grill fits. This car with the smaller grill looks analogous to a muscular athlete with a thin little neck.

Like the concept or not, the design language was built to feature the larger grill.

I agree 100%

[tturedraider]

Originally Posted by Fuller

The bottom picture looks better. The more "traditional" kidney grill doesn't fit well within the context of the whole car. The design language of the concept is muscular and aggressive, so a prominent grill fits. This car with the smaller grill looks analogous to a muscular athlete with a thin little neck.

Like the concept or not, the design language was built to feature the larger grill.

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

I agree 100%

And I disagree. I’m not alone. 77% of the poll respondents do not like the large, exaggerated grill. The car may look muscular, but it also has an elegance to it and the smaller grill suits that elegance.

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by tturedraider

And I disagree. I'm not alone. 77% of the poll respondents do not like the large, exaggerated grill. The car may look muscular, but it also has an elegance to it and the smaller grill suits that elegance.

We can all agree to disagree. The front end of that photoshop looks worse than the current F8X. At the end of the day, the larger, taller grilles are here. Photoshopping 8 Series grilles onto the front end of the Concept isn't going to change that. The 8 Series grilles don't fit the lines of the Concept. Elegance was never a 3 Series attribute, and clearly BMW does not think elegance is a good fit for the car either.

P.S. I also find it interesting that the OP photoshops his vision with different wheels, a front lip, etc., but doesn't give the Concept and visual enhancements.