BMW Announce New Green Sports Car Concept for Frankfurt
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This will be interesting, make just sports car, f@*k this green or hybrid cars!!
M1 Homeage concept is too ugly.
July 30, 2009 11:09 am
"BMW Announce F1 Withdrawal Face Saving Exercise for Frankfurt" ;-)
It'd better be good...
July 30, 2009 11:16 am
i think its a good idea that each car company make atleast one or two green cars, to give diversity. this car looks nice the only thing i dont like about it is that the bonnet and wheels are completely ugly.
July 30, 2009 11:16 am
Agreed Prince Ash they are amongst some of the ugliest wheels i have ever seen. They look like you could grate cheese with them.
July 30, 2009 11:33 am
sorry to disappoint you, but electric/hybrid technologies will play a role in every new vehicle in the future. i for one prefer to fly in an airliner with high bypass turbofans rather than something with radial piston engines.
July 30, 2009 11:45 am
Having spoken to a manager in one of the car companies under Vw, I can tell u that Hybrid cars are not green...the sheer amount of energy needed to produce and then ecologically get rid of the battery cells outweighs the petrol it saves...that is why they have not adopted the hybrid technology...
All this "green" talk is really getting on my nerves...I want to save the environment, but changing the way we drive cars just so that the company's PR department is happy is BS since in the end it is more harmful to the environment...
July 30, 2009 12:15 pm
it's not to make the PR department happy, it's making the board happy. you have to at least keep pace with your opponents when it comes to environmental impact by the end user. the snowball effect took hold and we are where we are today.
that said there will are and will be many benefits for users both performance and daily commuters. why let energy get wasted as heat when it can be re used elsewhere? sure it's still early days for mass implementations across manufacturers and market segments, but the same could be said of the first motor carriage 120 years ago, and then again when a fourth wheel was added.
don't buy into that vw marketing bs. as if vw aren't working on hybrid technology. they've proven their conventional and highly refined (read: cheap to develop and manufacturer year on year) drivetrains to be as and in many cases more efficient than current generation hybrids. they aim to hit it out of the park when they deploy their hybrid system.
July 30, 2009 2:13 pm
Maybe it's 'Z Vision Concept' BMW is going to announce, not the M1. Although M1 would be delightful to see and also something BMW should have in their lineup (not the usual scaled up/down version of something already existing model).
July 30, 2009 1:15 pm
Today the best informed german magazine "AutoMotor&Sport" announced some information about the new sports car from BMW presented as a concept at the IAA: 911 competitor, about 4.5m length and a combination of two electric and one fuel engine, light weight. Sounds very promising...
July 30, 2009 3:22 pm
bmw is following honda's step by quiting F1 and ditching their sports cars for some heavyweight SUV, MPV and silly fourdoor coupe-hatchbacks or whatever you call it now
July 30, 2009 6:07 pm
Ask me, I've been involved as a BMW die-hard fan since 2000 (with WilliamsF1). F1 has lost every sense of pinnacle in motorsport technology except its name. It has become nothing but an empty shell. Indy cars have even become faster and as much advanced as Formula One cars. F1 in the early 2000-2005 were at the summit of the upmost advanced and fast race cars ever built BUT now they're totally different... crap!
July 31, 2009 3:42 am
"The BMW EfficientDynamics Vision will demonstrate how efficient a sports car can be. It will also prove that sustainability does not apply to the drive train alone, but to design and materials as well." I am interested much more in the design and materials in order to make a green car while keeping it fun to drive. I look forward to it!
July 31, 2009 8:48 am









