Comments on: TTAC Photochop: New BMW X4

By: guyincognito

guyincognito — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:55:09 +0000

What about the X0? Come on Bimmer its the only logical place to go from here, 1 passenger microcar with 24″ of ground clearance and no storage capacity whatsoever.

By: jkross22

jkross22 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:34:48 +0000

edgett and Samir… still laughing from your comments. Well done!

By: Samir Syed

Samir Syed — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:51:17 +0000

Another 16 or so models and BMW’s product line should be complete.

By: Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:19:10 +0000

Nice photo. Too bad they didn’t roll the hood back on itself, just to make it look completely like a midevil dwarf’s shoe.

Seriously, this car makes me want to do the “Safety Dance.”

By: carlisimo

carlisimo — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:55:43 +0000

Just a comment on the doors in concept cars (usually gullwing doors, or suicide doors, etc): they aren’t like that because they’re being considered for production, but because it’s the only good way to show off the interior of cars that no one’s allowed to sit in.

By: edgett

edgett — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:54:27 +0000

Andrei – Nice photoshop work; unfortunately this thing is not nearly ugly enough to pass the Chris Bangle’s “mangled-another-one” test. You might want to try one with gratuitous headlight cutlines that lead into the door openings, add a ‘flame surfacing’ element that aligns with the windshield and then ensure that the back end can trace its lineage to one of the weird Rodan-meets-Godzilla Japanese cars of the 1970’s. The grille is far too tasteful for a Bangle design; I might suggest a nice handlebar-moustache-shaped chrome element to cap the double kidney; you might cap it off with overly large headlamp buckets to complete the design statement.

Bangle’s designs are so well received that my local dealer is selling Z4’s at $13,000 off MSRP. It seems sad that an otherwise enormously competent little coupe is selling at $10,000 less than its direct competitor, the Cayman.