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      07-20-2021, 11:27 PM   #23
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This might be the non M sport version LCI?
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      07-20-2021, 11:42 PM   #24
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100% positive this is not the LCI and an Asian company testing new frontend and headlights.

Development photos arent usually taken in a shop or on the kitchen floor lol.
You still 100% there chief?
This is what I was thinking . Bmw is literally already making electric cars for China. This can just be one sitting around over there either being tested or inspected but chances are it's real. Well atleast for the Chinese market.
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      07-21-2021, 04:37 AM   #25
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With the DRLs flipped upwards, it now looks like a cat which you'd pull its forehead skin backwards and bare the whites of its eyeballs.
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      07-21-2021, 05:07 AM   #26
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Headlight looks terrible, they're really refreshing the car just for the sake of refreshing, it's sad
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      07-21-2021, 05:21 AM   #27
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100% positive this is not the LCI and an Asian company testing new frontend and headlights.

Development photos arent usually taken in a shop or on the kitchen floor lol.
You still 100% there chief?
Also the camo one has to be m sport, since it's in portimao blue, which is exclusive to m sport. The supposedly leaked pictures seem to be the non m sport model, or the 330i. I would say that there is a good possibility that the m sport models and m340i will retain the same bumpers, but receive the lci headlight/twilights, similar to what happened during the f30 generation.
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      07-21-2021, 05:25 AM   #28
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Getting pre-LCI E90 vibes from those grilles.
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Looks like from a shop floor in China or India not from a BMW plant…i would argue this is fake news…
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      07-21-2021, 05:38 AM   #30
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Also the camo one has to be m sport, since it's in portimao blue, which is exclusive to m sport. The supposedly leaked pictures seem to be the non m sport model, or the 330i. I would say that there is a good possibility that the m sport models and m340i will retain the same bumpers, but receive the lci headlight/twilights, similar to what happened during the f30 generation.
I don't know but based on the mirror design, being similar as the recently presented M240i, I tend to argue that this is the M340i. Also the side seems to have an m-performance sticker, both adaptations can of course be slammed on any 3-series, so doesn't say too much either.
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Here you go guys!
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      07-21-2021, 06:04 AM   #32
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DRL are upsidedown by any means.
Talk about a lack of creativity..

I guess that's how all the taillights and headlines are going to be restyled from here on out; by simple inverting the DLR/TAIL lights in the opposite direction of whatever it was prior, for each LCI revamp..
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      07-21-2021, 06:14 AM   #33
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That render looks pretty sharp.
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      07-21-2021, 06:31 AM   #34
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Great render! I actually quite like it, especially the diagonal upwards lines from the fangs that go on in the central opening.
I always hated the generic Skoda/VW like appearance of the original G20 headlights so to me the new lights are an improvement.

This leak looks very legit. The camouflaged car clearly has an indentical DRL geometry and also the projectors are the same. The picture of the camouflaged car is far to young for some Chinese shop to do an exact copy of the headlight design that quick.

My guess is that the pictures where taken at the factory of a headlight supplier while they did some fitting tests. This would also explain the Audi headlights in the back.
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Here you go guys!
Really nicely done!
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Gotta say the BMW light are looking worse and worse.

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Buy Laser option please @£1500
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No more slits in the headlights? The 2020's just getting more valuable by the day
It's a bit odd isn't it? Weirdly to me it looks almost like it could be heavily facelifted base model/SE F30 with those 'smooth' headlights and bumpers, rather than an LCI G20!
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As someone else pointed out this appears to have M mirrors. I also just noticed the M accessories black stripes down the lower door and the little black lip spoiler, bit odd given how smooth and unaggresive the front bumper section is…
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      07-21-2021, 06:56 AM   #39
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I like that a lot. Too bad BMW couldn't do something like that for the new G42. If it looked like that in the front, and the tail lights were decent too I would already be on a waiting list.
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      07-21-2021, 07:12 AM   #40
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That "orange at the edge" looks like a separate part behind the headlight, not in the headlight itself.
I think you are right.

That could definitely be the M2 headlight.
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Here you go guys!
Masterful render as always !

If the new grille fits my pre-LCI, that's the only thing I'd take over what what I have. Seems once again they are trying to get it closer to the 5-series look, which is odd since they keep saying they want to differentiate the series...
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Here you go guys!
This rendering looks much better than pictures in post#1, seeing in person really is the final verdict.
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DRL are upsidedown by any means.
Talk about a lack of creativity..

I guess that's how all the taillights and headlines are going to be restyled from here on out; by simple inverting the DLR/TAIL lights in the opposite direction of whatever it was prior, for each LCI revamp..
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DRL are upsidedown by any means.
Talk about a lack of creativity..

I guess that's how all the taillights and headlines are going to be restyled from here on out; by simple inverting the DLR/TAIL lights in the opposite direction of whatever it was prior, for each LCI revamp..
IMO F36 has much better taillights than G20/22/26 series. Current G20 laser headlights with L are quite good, also G22 laser light is good also.
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