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2009 BMW 7-Series Leaked?

LionLT — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:03:47 EDT

Any of you actually have driven/have current 7 series? Or it's just bunch of losers who do not know what they are talking about? I actually own a current 7 series and it's the most beautiful automobile I have EVER driven. You drive it and feel like a King. This new 7 series does not look to have many changes from current, but I am sure once you drive it you will fall in love with the car. If you are looking for something that looks like a teenager's car, look somewhere else.
7 series is supposed to look "business-like". By the way... ladies LOVE BMWs! :) They sit in it, see BMW logo and melt ;)

LionLT

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carlivar — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:03:10 EDT

The '89 750iL I just bought pwns this.

carlivar

2009 BMW 7-Series Leaked?

dizzle84 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:08:26 EDT

I didn't think they could make anything uglier than the existing 7 series

dizzle84

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dygituljunky — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:50:21 EDT

Oh, another thing.

BMW would probably not design a front fascia in which a Euro plate would hang slightly over the lower air intake. The current 7 comes close but it still doesn't. US plates hang over all the time on all sorts of cars but Euro plates would be factored in to the design on a BMW. I therefore decree that the grill hangs too low because it forces the license plate down over the lower air intake.

dygituljunky

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dygituljunky — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:39:48 EDT

- The apparent rubber strips at edges of the headlights seem a little wider BMW quality control would allow.
- Different edges and seams have different levels of crispness (Mark Miller mentioned the missing bumper seam. Also, the edges of the headlights are too crisp in comparison with the seams around the hood.)
- The front grille is quite as perfectly aligned as BMW quality control would require: the viewer's right is slightly closer to the hood seam than the viewer's left.
- BMW's side auxiliary turn signals have recently been a little wedge-shaped thing somewhere close to the front of the character line (except for the Z4 where it is hidden behind the side roundel). That silver thing mid-way up the front seam of the front door doesn't seem like a BMW side aux turn signal, which BMW would make much more subtle. The side aux turn signals seem to be too low for the Euro-spec. The side aux turn signals seem to have been moved to the mirror tips of all manufacturers if not in the area of the front of the character line including on the mule we've seen in spy photos (though that may be because of the cladding they were using on the mule).
- Where are the rear side marker lights which European vehicle regulations would require to be very visible from the "photographer's" angle? And the swaths of red plastic which would surround the rear side marker lights?
- The lower air intake on the front has no texture to it. It was clearly painted with a paint tool using the color black.
- The front and rear wheels have reflections in exactly the same place which would be unlikely even when the picture was blurred.
- The front license plate is too bright. At that angle and with that cloud cover, it would have looked slightly more gray.

That's all I see.

dygituljunky

2009 BMW 7-Series Leaked?

wookie909 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:17:26 EDT

I saw a test mule on the freeway in LA 2 days ago. All those body panels (door skins, fender bulges, quarter panels, etc.) are just plastic panels bolted on to the real panels, ala last generation Nissan Frontier. I wouldn't expect the final version to look too much like the car in the spy photos

wookie909

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Rob P — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:23:25 EDT

Uglier than current generation 7-series. Not that I think the current generation is ugly.

Rob P

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Mark Miller — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:24:31 EDT

Several problems... Firstly: the artist forgot to add a seam where the right-front fender meets the bumper cap. Additionally; the driver is wearing no clothes, and the overall light-source seems to be coming from his ass.

Mark Miller

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sos10 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:16:06 EDT

The photo may be leaked but I aint drippin'.

sos10

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BMRFILE — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:45:16 EDT

It's not fake. It's the real thing. All new BMWs WILL look that ugly from now on, as they have dumped soul in favor of conformity.

BMRFILE

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FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:54:50 EDT

Headlight curves at the bottom don't seem to match. Also, there's a weird bit going on where the hood & fender mate up to the windshield - that kick toward the center just looks unnatural and dangerous to service ersonnel.

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mikedrawcar — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:45:44 EDT

hmm... looks like Toyota and Honda (new Accord) are doing some freelance work...

mikedrawcar

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DeanFun — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:46:46 EDT

the front and rear wheels are offset from each other. it's like an escher drawing that makes sense until you look at it for more than a couple seconds.

DeanFun

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bmoredlj — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:42:28 EDT

God Lord, I hope it doesn't look anything like that...

bmoredlj

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orangeroller — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:18:02 EDT

Hey... That thing looks kinda familiar.
Like a newer version of an E39.
Great work Bimmer!

orangeroller

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Ratieya — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:12:23 EDT

Looks like a Chinese knockoff of a Jaguar S-Type, but it is really just a bad photoshop.

Ratieya

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Roadster_Guy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:52:45 EDT

... looks like a goddamn Pikachu.

But in typisch German zilver.

Roadster_Guy

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boosted-lego-wagon — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:48:39 EDT

I guess this must be that new lame-surfacing they've been talking about.

boosted-lego-wagon

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crevans — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:46:36 EDT

Pontiac G8 + Honda Civic + Volvo Sedan, yet it's vastly uglier than any of those cars.

crevans

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Maymar the technophobe — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:37:16 EDT

Are plastic surgeons able to perform rhinoplasty on their own cars?

Maymar the technophobe

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norn_iron — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:37:11 EDT

the rear 3/4 looks a LOT like a passat,

norn_iron

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benztown — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:23:56 EDT

looks like a manatee

benztown

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Sloop_John_B — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:22:22 EDT

@Steel_ETC: You've convinced me.

Sloop_John_B

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///Mink — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:20:46 EDT

Wilhelm Hofmeister is rolling over in his grave right now, hopefully ending ass-up so Chris Bangle can kiss it.

///Mink

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layabout — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:18:37 EDT

And they have changed what?

layabout

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MagnumEcho — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:12:13 EDT

@Number_Six: haha i see what you did there.

i definitely agree with the size of the front plate....no way that's to scale. the blunt, upright front end could be legit though, those European pedestrian safety laws are a bitch. the whole thing just looks fake though, it's too airbrushed and "pretty". also, what the HELL is going on behind that front wheel? that's just terrible. the motion effect on the wheels isn't right either

MagnumEcho

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damnElantra — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:09:25 EDT

@Number_Six: tiss ok, not even a real word

damnElantra

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DannyBN — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:04:47 EDT

@smsolo1: Farfugnugen

DannyBN

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Steel_ETC — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:04:29 EDT

An obvious photoshop, though I have to say I don't really mind this design. If it had a little bit more hood and Z4-style taillights (since it has the same rear angles) it might be palatable. Hmmm...where to begin?

Most obvious is that both the wheels are the same image, duplicated and resized slightly. The vertical bars in the grille don't mesh with the rest of the image and were shot with a separate light source. The fender vent/sidemarker also was grafted on, as there's no shadow where the depression by the door would be. I've done better bored doodles in my datebook.

Steel_ETC

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smsolo1 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:58:21 EDT

say it ain't so. how do you say fugly in German?

smsolo1

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Number_Six — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:57:45 EDT

@damnElantra: I don't believe that that is the preferred nomenclature these days.

Number_Six

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DannyBN — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:57:12 EDT

What's with that huge door handle-level crease? Jumbo knife sharpener?

C+ on the photoshop, BTW.

DannyBN

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vwminispeedster — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:56:59 EDT

one question: does it still have Bangle-butt?

vwminispeedster

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Number_Six — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:56:48 EDT

It's not so often that one can call a design both porcine and bovine.

Number_Six

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nicjasno — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:56:34 EDT

And the current model ain't a beauty queen either...

nicjasno

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Stuntdriver — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:54:28 EDT

ps: the car looks like it was snifing shit....

Stuntdriver

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Sloop_John_B — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:53:01 EDT

Even though it's photo-chopped (most-likely), I bet it's a fairly close approximation of what the 7 series will be. To be honest, I like the current model MUCH better.

Sloop_John_B

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damnElantra — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:52:25 EDT

the front seems strangely mongoloidic

damnElantra

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Benito had lost his password.. — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:52:06 EDT

@nicjasno:
Couldn't have said it better myself.

Although, I'm not sure that the target audience of this car cares much about how it looks, because, its a bimmer.

Benito had lost his password..

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Mysterious Utility Bento — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:52:05 EDT

Easy...Its has a NORMAL trunk instead of the Frankenstein Saturn grafting the regular 7-series has

Mysterious Utility Bento

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Stuntdriver — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:52:01 EDT

change the title to:

2009 BMW 7-Series Lacking?

Stuntdriver

2009 BMW 7-Series Leaked?

cazin678 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:51:31 EDT

LOL- BMW tries to build a Bentley.... The grill doesn't work

cazin678

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mwood10 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:51:10 EDT

@nicjasno: Perfectly in keeping with the BMW design philosophy.

Maybe the plan is to try and shed the "pricks on the inside" image by making the cars so ugly that only someone dedicated to the driving experience would buy one.

mwood10

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graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:50:13 EDT

Worst. Photochop. Ever.

graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives

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JantheMan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:48:16 EDT

I rememberd the shark facia of the BMW....this pig thing...I don't know.....It just a picture....some like pigs or the artist does not like BMW

JantheMan

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cyclopticgaze — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:47:03 EDT

Lots of issues with scale. The grille looks too big, so does the side marker. The euro plate looks too small on the front. So does the roundel and the foglights. The motion blur of the wheels doesn't look right, like it's been brushed on. I wouldn't expect the headlight halos to be so yellow.

cyclopticgaze

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goatrope — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:44:52 EDT

There is a feng shui problem here: the design elements of "grace" and "beauty" are over-represented in the photograph. The real Bangle/van Hooydoonk design will contain more "visual barf" and "fugliness"

goatrope

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yisoo — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:42:52 EDT

pontiac g8 headlights OMG

yisoo

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nicjasno — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:41:09 EDT

Looks fugly.

nicjasno

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NICKNICK — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:39:34 EDT

that grille is WAY too tall. it looks like a kid with his nose smushed against a window.

NICKNICK

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SmaartAasSaabr — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:32:41 EDT

Now is this anything to do with the "turbosteamer" they were mentioning or are they sucking the smoke out of our collective butt?

SmaartAasSaabr