Watchers of the upscale, Born Rich, found a shot of an Airbus prototype with an interior that's the product of BMW Designworks, the company's artsy-fartsy division headed by director Chris Bangle. Designworks, which pens everything from watches to lamps to cars and motorcycles fitted the A350 twinjet with spacious overhead bins, flexible lighting schemes and a bar, in a style destined to be known as "Smurfy-modern." The plane's insides will be unveiled at the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2006 expo in Hamburg next month.

New Airbus with BMW Interiors [Born Rich]

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For the roughly 4.78329 readers out there who don't know that BMW's roundel logo is supposed to represent a spinning propeller, well, now you know. And as we learned from watching too many G.I. Joe cartoons, knowing is half the battle. Now what type of powerplant motivated prop planes during Bayrische Motoren Werke's aviatory heyday? (Is "aviatory" even a word? What the hell, why not?) If you answered "reciprocating internal combustion engines," pat yourself on the back and move ahead three spaces. So what happens when a V-10-powered M5 goes up against Airbus' latest jumbo jet? Head on over to The Car Connection and find out.

M5 Takes on A380 [The Car Connection]

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