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      09-14-2019, 11:02 PM   #991
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This concept is so badass beautiful, if it were a woman I'd marry her. If the production car is close enough to the concept, it's my next.
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This concept is so badass beautiful, if it were a woman I'd marry her. If the production car is close enough to the concept, it's my next.
Definitely a troll post.
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That's not true. Bangle was on that team a long time. He and his team - Golpen, Djordjevic and others - had input on the E46, E90, E60, E65 (..labeled one of the 50 worst cars of all time......only to become the best selling 7 of all time), and so on. It is BMW's Board of Directors who make the decisions, not the designers. The Board [obviously] supports the designers, but make no mistake about it......they run the show. Even Hooydonk state's that sometimes BMW likes to muscle in bold, brash designs to knock down walls (...e.g. usher in new, fresh design concepts to bring in new buyers with fresh perspectives) so the company can progress.
Hooydonk designed the flame arsed droopy eyed carbuncle that was the e65 7 series not Bangle.
Is "on that design team" difficult for you to understand? I never said he was the person who penned it. I think I was very clear and concise in that post. Your just being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.
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Presenting the BMW 4 Series Coupe Concept (G22)!

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Every car forum I checked recently had deemed this 4 Concept a laughingstock!

Not since the Bangle butt 7 has a BMW been so poorly received.
In this thread a mod stated that the BangleButt7 sold well despite the design fail, somewhat implying that may happen here as well.

I'd offer these are totally different products with totally different markets: the 7-series is for pulling up in front of the country club, and there you can pass off ugly design as irreverent ... but the 4-series, especially an M4, is for pulling up in front of the dance club, and there people will just laugh. (and no, not car club because that's a miniscule % of buyers that track their cars regularly).

In any event, the design test for the new M4 will be, when it pulls up in front of the dance club do people chant "bbbbeeeeeaaaavvveeerrr mobile!" or not?

Your move BMW.
People somewhere still go to dance clubs? In that case I'd say the big gaudy grill is perfect. Apparently bmw did their due diligence.
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This concept is so badass beautiful, if it were a woman I'd marry her. If the production car is close enough to the concept, it's my next.
"If it were a woman...", she would be booked in for facial surgery, with every box ticked
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...my wife's literal comments: "Ewwwwww... looks like something from the "Cars" movie, the red car."
I also showed front end pics of the concept 4 to my wife. She's no petrol head but she appreciates good design. She laughed and then said, "Who the f*** is going to buy one of those?". Nuff said.
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I also showed front end pics of the concept 4 to my wife. She's no petrol head but she appreciates good design. She laughed and then said, "Who the f*** is going to buy one of those?". Nuff said.
My wife threw up in her mouth.
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Is "on that design team" difficult for you to understand? I never said he was the person who penned it. I think I was very clear and concise in that post. Your just being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.
LOL, nothing argumentative about pointing out your errors, you're the one bouncing around this thread trying to pick arguments my friend.

Bangle wasn't on the e65 design team he was BMWs global design director at that time, he set the design direction (years before) others did the work and Hooydonk was in charge of the team designing that car.

You seem upset about this thread and the lack of love for the concept, perhaps you should go have a lie down.
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I know a lot of people in the past since I can remember in the 90's has always had negative things to say about the next generation but I just dont kike this design period

We will only know how well buyers like this when it goes on sale and sale numbers are published. I have looked on different BMW dealer websites, even the M340i are not flying off the lots with some people even getting huge discounts based on post on this forum, which is unusual for the 1st model year. See link below

https://g20.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1614549

In addition a fully loaded m340i reaching MSRP around $70k, one use to be able to buy an e92 m3 of f82 m4 for that amount of money not so long ago. I think the new 330i and M340i looks good, very good. If the new 4-series would just be a coupe model of the M340i, that would be a popular car IMO

Here is an article on bmwblog that states the g80 M3 will also get larger kidney grills more like the 4-series than currently on the 330i/m340i. See link below

https://www.bmwblog.com/2019/08/07/u...kidney-grille/

Next question would be, how much a fully loaded 4-series will cost
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After spending hours reading posts and looking at numerous grilles with a magnifying glass this is my analysis. The new 4 series is going to look like the renderings posted here on August 23rd. The 4 series concept was to scare us so bad that when the vehicle, as show in the renderings, comes out we will embrace it because it does not have the horrendous grille of the concept.

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I also showed front end pics of the concept 4 to my wife. She's no petrol head but she appreciates good design. She laughed and then said, "Who the f*** is going to buy one of those?". Nuff said.
My wife threw up in her mouth.
My wife goes "ehhhh wtf it looks like a wannabe Alfa"
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After spending hours reading posts and looking at numerous grilles with a magnifying glass this is my analysis. The new 4 series is going to look like the renderings posted here on August 23rd. The 4 series concept was to scare us so bad that when the vehicle, as show in the renderings, comes out we will embrace it because it does not have the horrendous grille of the concept.
Oo genius! It's like the anchoring i do: "honey i reaally want that Aston, sure it's a bit spendy ... although if you think that's too much I suppose a fully loaded m3 individual could MAYBE work ..."

So BMW shows us the most heinous rosanne-in-ass-chaps design they can come up with, but then backs off slightly with the final ...

... and so your point is we'll buy it because it won't feel so much like



excellent analysis!
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The problem with is the entire car has to exude a muscular stance to accommodate the prominent grill. The F32 was a classy, streamlined coupe, but now it's as if it's suddenly trying to look like American muscle. That hood looks like it should be housing a big, roaring v8, not a refined, gentlemanly I6 - and certainly not a 4 cylinder. I guess I'm trying to say, the style is growing on me, but it seems like that grill would be more at home on a redesigned Dodge Challenger or something. To me it's not the styling itself, it's more the context.
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Oo genius! It's like the anchoring i do: "honey i reaally want that Aston, sure it's a bit spendy ... although if you think that's too much I suppose a fully loaded m3 individual could MAYBE work ..."

So BMW shows us the most heinous rosanne-in-ass-chaps design they can come up with, but then backs off slightly with the final ...

... and so your point is we'll buy it because it won't feel so much like



excellent analysis!
Too much time in the sun at the beach today.
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Too much time in the sun at the beach today.
That's impossible.

In other news, hey BMW, here's how you do a BigBuckyGrille right - notice the actually thoughtful, integrated design lines - The Maybach Exelero:





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I also showed front end pics of the concept 4 to my wife. She's no petrol head but she appreciates good design. She laughed and then said, "Who the f*** is going to buy one of those?". Nuff said.
My wife threw up in her mouth.
Are you sure her reaction wasn't to something else?
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Too much time in the sun at the beach today.
That's impossible.

In other news, hey BMW, here's how you do a BigBuckyGrille right - notice the actually thoughtful, integrated design lines - The Maybach Exelero:





Uuuuugggglllyyyy! Damn!
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Are you sure her reaction wasn't to something else?
I am positive.

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Who the hell is okaying this poor design language??? They need to be FIRED ASAP!
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Who the hell is okaying this poor design language??? They need to be FIRED ASAP!
That camera angle isn't really representative of the actual proportions.
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