This morning, as it turns out, I am ill. No, really, I am. Having just been diagnosed with the worst case of Man Flu ever recorded, I wasn’t going to post today. But then, something caught my attention. Something that warranted crawling out from beneath my illness cocoon, and speaking to the world. The car industry has been a bit quiet lately. No really exciting stuff has been unveiled in a while, probably because most of the manufacturers are still searching around the back of the sofa for some spare change. But it seems that things have gone a bit dry on the creative front. It seems as if the designers have just put down their pencils and gone to sleep. At least, that’s what I thought. Because, if the latest designs from BMW are to be believed, they have in fact been quite busy.
Their business comes in the form of two completely new cars. And for once, both of them seem too good to be true. BMW has long described themselves as providing “the ultimate driving machine” and if I’m honest, I could never really tell why. Most BMW’s simply look like “another car” on the road. It may well be a good car, but at BMW they’ve never put too much emphasis on the looks department, having completely cocked up the 3 series the manufacturer seemed to be applying facelifts where they weren’t needed, until even the celebrity models of the M division weren’t safe from “forced improvement”. Well hey; they are German. But now, both these designs look absolutely stunning, and the word on the street is that BMW will actually start making them in the near future. So, let’s take a look, shall we?
Now be honest, that looks great doesn’t it. This is the new Z10, BMW’s first attempt at making a proper supercar. But, I hear you ponder, in this economic climate why do we need another supercar? Well, that’s a good point. Which is why BMW have flung themselves into the deep end, and are making this supercar as green as it can be. Using something called Efficient Dynamics; they’re attempting to create the world’s first economical supercar. Think about what an achievement that would be, about what that would mean for the worlds supercar industry. And I reckon that if the project is successful, other manufacturers would follow suit. Can you imagine a green Ferrari, or a new Zonda that manages 3,000,000 mpg? Well, if this thing works, that might be a lot closer than you think. Of course, this being a supercar, its probably going to be fitted with lashings of carbon fibre to keep the weight down. But still, if it ends up looking as good as this, you can sign me up for one right away.
So far then, team BMW are really strutting their stuff. You’d be forgiven for thinking that things couldn’t get much better over in Germany. But, trust me, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
See what I mean? Let me introduce you to the vision. BMW’s coolest concept car to date. Its just been showcased over at the Frankfurt motor show, where it drew huge crowds over to the BMW stand. And you can see why. That design is frankly biblical, with those gull wing doors nicked from a Lamborghini, and those tyres, sitting like a layer of dust over the wheels. This is what modern car design is all about, taking a boring BMW and making it more exciting that Keira Knightly and Emma Watson having a mud wrestling match.
And don’t think that the vision is all pretty eyes and shapely curves either. Because this pretty boy has the power to match. This futuristic sports coupe has a whopping 356bhp, producing 800nm of torque off the line. And all of that coming from a three cylinder turbodiesel engine, supported by two electric motors. So not only does it look godly, and go like the clappers. It also has the potential to be green as well.
So there we are then, the boys over at BMW have certainly been busy. And it proves that even though the world is, economically at least, up a creek without a paddle, the worlds car manufacturers aren’t ready to bail out just yet. Hopefully this will encourage the world’s car designers to pick up their pencils and give us some new stuff.
Now then, having told you all about these two new cars, I’m off to drink my weight in Lemsip, and consume a dangerous amount of paracetamol before spending an inordinate amount of time in bed. Goodnight.
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