[TheBingoBalls]

Originally Posted by Westside Guy

The G29 concept car was reasonably close to the actual production car.

By concept, I mean designs of cars that were never meant for production build. The G29 concept for the Z4, we knew was coming. I was referring to things like the Z4 Touring Coupe where it was nothing more than a tease - we could technically make it, but we don’t want to because of x, y, z.

[Hadden14]

Please don't be fat and electric.....

[Poiseuille]

so, no grills from an M48 tank, eh?

[JK479]

Originally Posted by VolTekka

This should have been an M car over the xM…

Personally it should be the 8 series and people might flock to it. Headlights and proportions are perfect

[Bimmerfun82]

Originally Posted by JK479

This should have been an M car over the xM…

Personally it should be the 8 series and people might flock to it. Headlights and proportions are perfect

This is an SL competitor, so I’m guessing we’ll see a pretty high price point and a hybrid powertrain.

[mubarak]

It is 9 series…..

[JK479]

Originally Posted by Bimmerfun82

This is an SL competitor, so I’m guessing we’ll see a pretty high price point and a hybrid powertrain.

Right. I think in another post I called it a 9 series.

This should have gone to market as and M before the xM maybe!

[snareman]

Looks like a revamped 6.

[cosmicamnesia]

I wonder if this could be the i16, which was the i8-follow up/M1 homage that was almost fully developed, but got canceled during the pandemic and replaced with the xM, because apparently BMW thought the xM was the "safer" option.
The i16 was apparently going to have a mid-engined S58 with a hybrid system. That actually sounds like it would have been really, really cool. I've no idea why BMW thought the xM, a $180k SUV that should've just been called the X7M, was a safer option than the i16.