Another 'modern' e9 rendering

I know the universe isn't begging for modern tributes to every classic design but those types of exercises have to be crucial to continuity in a brand. I looked again and I don't see any industry affiliation with the actual fellow who did the art. Imagine if this board commissioned a 3D modeler to do a "modern tribute" to our cars by committee (as a way to advocate for a traditional BMW style cues -- or just for fun). Would it end up looking exactly like an e9 again?
 
Why doesn't someone try taking an old ugly car and make it better. Like say a Pontiac Aztek or 58 Continental or AMC Rambler. They may actually succeed. I mean it'd be pretty easy to make them look better and everyone will sing your praise.

Instead they start with one of cardoms, most lovely, sublime shapes and butcher it...
 
...or is the exercise about proving it's possible to retain some classic styling language while corporate BMW is veering off on a puzzling path in real life? Perhaps the answer is that the new cars should be clean sheet designs. I bet the designers of the Mustang wrestle with this problem (just for instance) and would probably be embarrassed if their most radical preliminary renderings were made public. To be clear, I would't buy the car in the pictures that started this discussion. I gravitate to old cars. But it made me smile that someone took a stab at it. I feel like it was out of love.
 
There really wasn't any part of that redesign that was well rendered. It's a travesty of ideas thrown at a delicate shape. Just because one tries, doesn't make the result worth the exercise. My 2 cents of course
 
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