Lexus LS commercial is better. Alot. ALOT. Also see the “Moments” ad where it doesn’t even look like a commercial until the very end. Beautiful poetry!

Luckily, many buyers of this car only care that it says 750iL and carries a few blue and white propellers.

You’re doin’ a heckuva job, Bangie.

I don’t understand (and from what I’ve read I’m not the only one) what BMW was thinking with that rear end. They just copied the rear end of the LS460, which in turn copied the rear end of the E65. Frankly, those lights are not only ugly, but don’t work well with the rest of the rear. BMW seems to be unable to surpass the tail-light-placement fiasco that is the 6-series, so they did a half-assed job on the F01.

Speaking of BMW grilles: http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2006/06/largest-bmw-kidney-grille-exhibits-at.html

Clive Owen was great in the originals. I’m not sure if you can still buy them from the BMW site, but they did have them for about $7 shipped a few years back.

I generally like the new 7er, but I’m still not sold on the HUGE grills. I appreciate the return to a much simpler design, though it does look like a big 5er (just like the older models did).

It’s a minor thing, but they seemed to have abandoned orange lighting for the gauges (at least in the press shots, but the gauges are computer generated, so maybe there is an option buried somewhere in iDrive to change it).

Whatever happened to “The Hire” series? A BMW in dynamic motion [sic, department of redundancy department] is way more captivating.

Nice to see that BMW has circled from the quintessential (E38) to the bizarre (E65) to the flat-out boring (F01). A Lexus LS now has a more intriguing shape. Holding out hope for the next gen…