German Bullets?

The elves from Munich just can’t seem to help themselves.  Aimed at overweight middle-aged inadequates?

BMWs Are They All The Same?

Who said BMWs are all the same.  Here’s a dozen different models all distinctive and totally unalike:

First Drive: 2013 BMW M6 Coupe [w/video]

Here is another new Beamer.  It’s like so different from anything that they’ve ever done before.

Other than this sentence the narrative is from the ever readable Autoblog.

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, BMW, First Drives, Luxury

More Pace And Better Style With Less Menace

With the dust just settling on recent tests of the $113,995 BMW M6 convertible and the start of U.S. deliveries in late May, we now get to attack some traffic-free Spanish two-lanes and the 3.4-mile track at the Ascari Race Resort in the third-generation, or F12, BMW M6 coupe, which sells for the "discount" price of just $106,995.
Let's cut to the chase a bit: The M6 coupe is far more convincing as a big M car with this bi-turbo V8 powertrain than either the M6 convertible or M5 four-door.
Of these three 560-horsepower platform-sharing M cars, it's definitely this sleek coupe that takes home the prize on dynamics. It's some 65 pounds lighter than the M5 and almost 290 pounds lighter than the convertible M6, so just on those numbers, one would certainly hope for a crisper, more responsive road and track manner.
Almost as a way of driving home this chief difference between the intentions of the coupe and convertible, BMW dressed all of the M6 coupes we were testing in both the optional five-spoke 20-inch forged M wheels and big lightweight optional carbon ceramic brake discs. The convertibles on hand at this European drive event all had standard 19-inchers and compound discs. And thus the drop tops were not allowed on the track at all, and that felt right.

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Matt Davis
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:57:00 GMT

Spy Shots: Aston Martin AM 310 Concept shows up in Italy... could it be the Vanquish?

I have previously blogged that all BMWs now seem to look the same.  Well it would appear that the contagion has spread and infected Aston Martin.  Can’t we have something new please.  They’re now looking awfully boring

Filed under: Concept Cars, Spy Photos, Coupe, Performance, Europe, Aston Martin, Design/Style, Luxury

Aston Martin recently took a right-hand drive version of the company's AM 310 Concept for a spin in Italy. The coupe was on hand for a brief photo shoot, and sported a few different details from the model we saw debut at Villa d'Este. Marked by a more sane set of wheels and a more demure grille, this machine looks almost ready for production. Aston Martin has already made it clear the concept could give us an idea of the successor to the DB9 and DBS, and some voices are indicating this could be the next-generation Vanquish.
Despite its ultra luxury products, Aston Martin may not have the resources on hand to dabble in fully-functional concepts like other automakers. As such, it would make sense for the AM 310 to serve double duty as both a concept and a prototype.
The supercar rides on the same VH chassis as nearly every other Aston Martin product, though the AM 310 borrows the 6.0-liter V12 found in the DB9.

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Spy Shots: Aston Martin AM 310 Concept shows up in Italy... could it be the Vanquish?
Zach Bowman
Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:01:00 GMT

BMW 6-series coupe revealed - Shanghai motor show 2011 - Picture Gallery - Autocar.co.uk

New BMWs are becoming anodyne and so similar that they’re really hard to tell apart.

 

Come back Chris Bangle all is forgiven.  Your cars may have been ugly but at least they were interesting and distinctive!

The Germans now seem to lack any imaginative creativity for their production cars. Or are they specifically targeted at a particularly boring clientele?

BMW 6-series coupe revealed - Shanghai motor show 2011 - Picture Gallery - Autocar.co.uk

BMW Dynamic Car Identity reimagines Roundel [w/video]

 First we had the "LOOK AT ME" headlights; now we seem to be getting the twirling propeller.  Is there no end to the desire of the Uberwursts to trumpet their self absorbed superiority?  They'll all go absolutely ape poo over this gimmick!


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Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Videos, BMW

Proposal for a dynamic BMW roundel - Click above to watch video after the jump

There's everything on the Internet, isn't that what they say? A company called Zafira Consulting & Trading has posted a proposal on YouTube for a dynamic re-envisioning of BMW's roundel logo. It's got the usual form and colors but, to quote Galileo, 'And yet it moves.'



The only other logos we know of that move on a car are on Rolls-Royces and Bentleys - the wheel caps rotate to stay centered, and the hood ornaments will retract. Zafira's idea isn't anything like that. It is neat, but... well, have a look at it for yourselves after the jump and tell us if you can see it in BMW's future.



[Source: YouTube]
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