BMW Debuts Vision Next 100 to Kick Off 100th Birthday Celebrations

yousefnjr · 03-09-2016, 08:08 AM

Been a few days... Is this really all that's happening for the 100?

SCOTT26 · 03-09-2016, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by yousefnjr

Been a few days... Is this really all that's happening for the 100?

No that's all for now the celebrations continue into 2016.

samuraisaiyo · 03-09-2016, 10:08 PM

Very love it.

clbmw · 03-11-2016, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by SCOTT26

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Originally Posted by yousefnjr

Been a few days... Is this really all that's happening for the 100?

No that's all for now the celebrations continue into 2016.

So that picture of the i8 they teased might still amount to something?

M3ZING · 03-11-2016, 11:33 AM

I hope cars dont look like this in the next 100 years.

AKRAPOVICOWNS · 03-11-2016, 11:55 AM

I understand the idea behind this concept..showcase possible technology for future cars (which im grateful i wont be alive to see 100 years from now), but why make it so ugly? Can you explain that habib?

I dont mind self driving cars, as long as they're not mandatory..but i have a feeling soon or later they'll be. Imagine that..you'll need to go to a track, or live in a small town to drive your car. If you think humans depend on technology now, imagine 100 years forward..we wont even drive anymore..maybe we will even became useless. Machines will do pretty much everything better than we do.

X3paul · 03-11-2016, 01:03 PM

These boys need no explaining

adHudd · 03-11-2016, 05:39 PM

"Could you please get this car when you give your M3 away" ...my 5 year old son.

Bosozoku · 03-11-2016, 09:14 PM

That STANCE !!!

Bosozoku · 03-11-2016, 09:22 PM

In case we've forgotten how far automobiles have come in 100 years, here's a car that is just under 100 years old:

Bosozoku · 03-11-2016, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by SCOTT26

No that's all for now the celebrations continue into 2016.

You going to Laguna Seca for the Monterey Motorsports Reunion this year?
It'll be all about the BMW 100th Anniversary celebration.
BMW is this year's featured marque.

N & M · 03-12-2016, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Cope

Am I the only one that hates the new buck teeth kidney grills they seem to keep slapping on concept cars? I really hope that's not the direction they end up going in...

Blame Audi for inspiring the age of oversized grilles a few years ago. The end of delicate and thoughtful design language...

Also, I am really surprised they got rid of the quad lamps. Ferrari did away with the rear ones and have since reintroduced into every new facelift or all new model.

N & M · 03-12-2016, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by YungDro

how is it pointless? go away troll.

You tell him! He is nothing but negative.

N & M · 03-12-2016, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Antares

I must add my voice to the critics here.
The BMW car company holistic approach is getting into sick extremes;it makes me remember a patient that fell from a horse since feeling unwell, after a short talk it came out she was feeding on carrots and such; her skin turned yellow-orange from the caroten-pigments that got deposited in the skin.

Anyway; instead of staying true to the brand legacy, they got into the crap looking i-BMW range, plug in-hybrids are almost nowhere, coupes are 4 door limos,....
Good that the SUVs sell well, or the company would be in 2 feet deep mud.

Look, putting aside the core brand ethos and all that, I have no problem with BMW making the move to diversify its product in substance and range provided they continue to give us gems like the M2 and i8.

In the end the market, ecological and political shifts will make extinct those who do not follow this path and I for one don't want to see BMW fade away like Kodak.

N & M · 03-12-2016, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by MalibuBimmer

Compare this BMW abomination with what Mercedes Benz presented: https://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/futur...ew_F015_Luxury

I thought BMW was interested in design. You wouldn't know that by this waste-of-space exercise.

If they sort out the grilles it would be nice. They point is not design; it is conceptual direction. They want to showcase the tech and driving experience to come.

N & M · 03-12-2016, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by X3paul

Well lets see: first you wont see this car in yourlifetime (so pointless); second by the time this car is on the market all of this tech and conceptual ideas will have been surpassed (therefore pointless); third since this here wont influence any of the current, next or future generations i think again it makes it, well, you guessed it POINTLESS
I think you just made a "trump" out of yourself with your comment. Perhaps next you will sugest a wall and I should pay for it aswell??

Perhaps you should seek professional help to sort out your BMW complexes mate.

X3paul · 03-12-2016, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by N & M

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Originally Posted by X3paul

Well lets see: first you wont see this car in yourlifetime (so pointless); second by the time this car is on the market all of this tech and conceptual ideas will have been surpassed (therefore pointless); third since this here wont influence any of the current, next or future generations i think again it makes it, well, you guessed it POINTLESS
I think you just made a "trump" out of yourself with your comment. Perhaps next you will sugest a wall and I should pay for it aswell??

Perhaps you should seek professional help to sort out your BMW complexes mate.

Now thats what I now call a "trump" comment

X3paul · 03-12-2016, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by N & M

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Originally Posted by YungDro

how is it pointless? go away troll.

You tell him! He is nothing but negative.

Seems I am not the only one (this mornings autocar review on a bimmer I might have considered)

N & M · 03-12-2016, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by X3paul

Seems I am not the only one (this mornings autocar review on a bimmer I might have considered)

does not make everything bad. You just see nothing but bad and can't see anything positive. I am lucky enough to drive some of the best cars in the world and I always find myself thinking what a pleasure it is to still have the choice to buy a BMW.

If you think the brand is not for you then find another and blow sunshine on its fan forum.

Bosozoku · 03-13-2016, 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Jason

“So our objective with the BMW VISION NEXT 100 was to develop a future scenario that people would engage with.”

And step number 1 is to hide those ultra-skinny ultra-aerodynamic tires.
Hence the flexible wheel pants/fenders.

I really like the overall profile and "presence." But I doubt cars will look like that in 2116.
It's like a carriage-maker in 1916 imagining what a 2016 horse-drawn carriage might look like.

X3paul · 03-13-2016, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by N & M

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Originally Posted by X3paul

Seems I am not the only one (this mornings autocar review on a bimmer I might have considered)

does not make everything bad. You just see nothing but bad and can't see anything positive. I am lucky enough to drive some of the best cars in the world and I always find myself thinking what a pleasure it is to still have the choice to buy a BMW.

If you think the brand is not for you then find another and blow sunshine on its fan forum.

Look mate we are here to discuss the good AND the bad. You can always choose not read my posts you know? But you cant deny bmw has been loosing its plot for awhile now. From the death of NA engines to fwd and more and more dull cars its not exactly at its best you would agree no? Look at porsche. Just introduced the 911r manual rwd NA engine and looking to introduce that philosophy into the rest of the lineup. So it is possible to do it. Bmw just chooses not to. The goal now is profit above all. The ultimate money machine. And if you bothered to read some of my other posts you would find I am the owner of 4 bmw's (5 until I traded my daily driver x3 for a Macan) and a huge fan of the i3 and future owner of it aswell (just waiting for the new extended range batteries).

SCOTT26 · 03-13-2016, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by X3paul

Seems I am not the only one (this mornings autocar review on a bimmer I might have considered)

Is this not the eDrive model they are testing against the Plug-in Hybrid XC90?

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