CSL Hommage Concept

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Pardon me if this has already been posted but the August 2015 Car and Driver at p. 16 features a two-page spread on this concept which will never be built. Here's a link to some photos:

http://www.caranddriver.com/photo-gallery/bmw-concept-pays-homage-to-the-3-0-csl

Funny that I just posted less than an hour ago about determining the value of my coupe for a possible sale. Seeing this article causes extreme hesitation in me to even consider a sale. Long live the coupe!!
 
RDS There has been quite a bit of reaction to that particular concept car. Perhaps others on this site can tell you how to find it.

This car gave me, and probably some other coupe owners, the "10 Best Reasons Why" we should never, never think for a nano-second about selling our beauties.

I have owned coupes for a long, long time. I estimate that over 250 people have approached me when I had my coupe out and told me one of two stories. They always wanted one but thought they were too expensive(that is getting to be true by the month). Or, they sold one and regret it every day. You don't want to be one of the second crowd.

Stve
 
This has nothing to do with anyone who likes this car and is not a personal attack on those who 'made' this concept....

But this car really,really,really gets under my skin.

I just keep on thinking that a lot of baby seals had to die for this to be in existence.....

And of the 100's of things I can find wrong with it, the very first and basic problem has to do with its lack of proportion.....

....the concept is proportioned more like a smurf than a thoroughbred....a real miss IMHO

Others may agree or disagree.

MF
 
CSL Hommage

Well, obviously we all have opinions of our own and for once I know I can share them, without upsetting anybody and or their car.

I absolutely love the CSL Hommage and would order one tomorrow if I could.

Many of you that know me, know I have E9s running through my blood, I think they are absolutely gorgeous. But, I also love art and this to me is just a wonderful modern interpretation of something I already am in love with.

Like me being able to love my wife, as I do - I will never change her and nobody will replace her - but imagine if she allowed me to have a younger mistress?

The Hommage would be my younger, vivacious, dangerous mistress:-)
 
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Does anyone know if this car will be at the Legends in Monterey this year?
 
One of the problems for me is the "busy-body." Too many angles and curves, hard edges and soft edges, scoops and wedges. Design for the sake of design. Cadcam Gone Wild like those mistresses you fantasize about Pete. But let's admit it, we are all like Pete one way or another.

My problems with it are especially apparent in the photo of the Hommage next to the Polaris CS.

Karen, my wife, says I treat my coupe like an ageing starlet. Perhaps she is on to something.

This is what I love about this forum. The calm exchange of ideas. Respect for each other's opinions.

Steve
 
I'll post several times to keep things short & sweet.

From a fundamental standpoint, this car is flawed, but not too far gone...

If it were parked next to its 'm' cousins and worked on by racing staff and engineers, they would soon see where to cut the fat and start giving this machine a real shape.

As it sits, I can only see a m3 gtr style chassis (not really suitable for a road design aesthetic)

I also think there was a rush to get this released at villa d'este, that and the fact that today's designers are pushed to be impractical and can lose sight of certain design ideology. There is too much modern racing style in it & not enough grace and glamour design for me to give this my undivided attention.

Too bad the design houses are not what they used to be....that is the truely tragic lesson I have learned....

MF
 
there is nothing about this that gives any hommage to one of the prettiest cars ever. i agree that most designers have lost the glamour that cars like the e type jag, the ferrari daytona + 246 dino have. they have gone the way of the angular / muscular shape that was initiated by lamborghini with the countach ... and then further abstracted by racing aerodynamics.

is it intriguing - sure it is. there is just too much going on. its like every design idea in the bag has been dropped onto this platform.

remember, the CSL grew out of the CS / CSi to go racing. not too different in the more serious approach that BMW did with the phenomenal e30 M3 ... where they really changed the basic body to work better for motorsports. both of these racing cars had fantastic motors.
 
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Stan, Chris and Steve,

I laughed out loud at the wonderfully honest comments about my mistress gents :-)

As they say "one mans meat is another mans poison" looks like I am in for a dose of the poison:-)

My thoughts are BMW have a theme with the I-8 and they have continued it here, like Frank Gehry's buildings, we now have the ability to do weird and wonderful things with computer design and being brave has always been a BMW trait. Time will tell if they were being brave and forward thinking or have simply lost their minds....
 
BMW Pete said:
My thoughts are BMW have a theme with the I-8 and they have continued it here, like Frank Gehry's buildings, we now have the ability to do weird and wonderful things with computer design and being brave has always been a BMW trait. Time will tell if they were being brave and forward thinking or have simply lost their minds....
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Gehry's buildings are more about pushing the technological boundaries to document the process of creating the art of architecture .(sculpture if you will) .. his office developed technology to be able to produce drawings of the design ideas. I worked with Gehry on a 50 story condo + hotel for downtown LA that got killed by the crash - very fun process. these are 2 very disparate approaches - one pure creation, and the other is this car idea.
 
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