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09-20-2015, 11:46 PM | #112 |
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To me, if BMW delivers the engine as mentioned in the article, they would be mad to give the tranny design to Macca. The entire powerplant will be designed by the boffins at //M, you can bet on that
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09-21-2015, 08:27 AM | #113 | |
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I'm just kind of hoping someone at BMW reads my post and goes "Oh, we never actually make a supercar, do we? Well, let's just show this kooper so-and-so and approve production of our supercar. That'll shut him up for good!" If my plan fails, then I'll just move onto more extreme methods. There's not much I won't do to see an actual, post-'80s BMW production supercar. |
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09-22-2015, 11:03 AM | #114 |
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Its gonna be big...
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09-22-2015, 12:31 PM | #115 | |
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I think maybe you should re-think whether a Mclaren Partnership is actually a cost saving measure. I'd gander it's actually the opposite.
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09-22-2015, 04:09 PM | #116 |
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09-23-2015, 07:40 AM | #117 | |
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http://www.motoring.com.au/news/2015...supercar-54069
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09-23-2015, 09:14 AM | #118 |
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I would much rather have BMW build something in the giant market between their current top performing car and a "Supercar". Building an ultra exclusive, high end car I may never see doesn't do much for me. The $100k-$200k market would make it much more accessible and far more likely to see at a dealer, at the track or around town.
Also, building a super car in extremely limited numbers only to show what you can do, not caring that it isn't profitable and making no business sense besides marketing, only to go back to building every day cars also doesn't matter that much to me.
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09-23-2015, 10:41 AM | #122 |
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It would be nice to see an official successor to the F1. Not the P1 we have seen. An official F1 v2.
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I'd prefer a joint McLaren vs a joint Toyota supercar. And I was just getting excited about BMW finally creating a super car after so many years. :
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As a company and indeed a business we talk to many throughout the industry.
Just because we talk to them does not mean we make a deal with them. But we have spoken to a few sports car manufacturers to project certain discussion on which could be shared or indeed be a beneficial proposal. We have recently begun a strategy at BMW under the guise of "Gene Sequencing" in order to integrate further products through proposal into gaps of the brand. Which we can count the BMW M2, BMW M4 GTS, BMW X7 and BMWi5 as part of this strategy but also the BMW 9er our Maybach rival proposal for late 2018,early 2019 which will share innovation with the next generation of RR models.
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09-23-2015, 06:27 PM | #127 | |
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09-23-2015, 07:08 PM | #128 |
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Uhhh, maybe, nobody in your world, as in Audi, Mercedes, and other high-end manufacturers. But the likes of super-highend sports cars like Koenigsegg and McLaren, who, in particular produces every single car they make based on a complete carbon fiber monocoque, not just a couple, relatively low volume models. And that's not even going into race-car manufacturers, which, HOLY SHIT! McLaren is one, and has been implementing it in their race cars for 3 to 4 times longer than BMW has even had the capability in production cars. Yes, including carbon fiber elements in the sportiest cars in the range, the new 7 series, and the i vehicles is something to be proud of, but saying you are the best at carbon fiber is a bit of a stretch. I knew this fabled new supercar wasn't going to happen though, based on the sheer fact that the "telephone numbers investment" cost sunk into the i8, BMW would stubbornly say no to any other car near it, let alone better than it in the line up. It just simply wasn't going to happen. Maybe after the i8 is gone, but by that time the enviro-nazi's will have laws preventing anyone from bringing to market anything with less than 40mpg and a quad-turbo V8 without anything but heavy electrical boosting is a fantasy. So yes, what I'm pretty much saying is this is never going to happen. Sorry to burst everyone's bubble. I would have liked to have seen this too And like the article said, it would require heavy reworking. Which I doubt BMW would do based on the halo-car argument Frank said earlier in the article. So, really, it's "i8 or nothing." ///Mike
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BMW is so stubborn...
Just make a mid engined supercar already!
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