06-30-2007, 08:56 PM
Okay. The new MY 2008 6ers are going to have LED turn indicators all around, a slighty deeper door sill line, a bigger Bangle butt (thicker all the way around) and wrap-around lower rear lamps that extend to the license plate frame. The front air dam is shaped slightly different and fog light placement is more toward the edges. The rear middle brake lamp is larger and higher up on the Butt, and the coupe gets it along with the convertible. And a few new colors and tweaks on the interior and new wheels which may or may not make it to the US. Of the 650is. No word if there will be any changes yet on the M6s. That was easy, wasn't it?
Apparently not believing that a picture is worth a thousand words, BMW has issued a bloviating, exultant, hyperbolic, last-year's-news press release, now posted on the BMW NA site http://www.bmwusa.com/NR/rdonlyres/C34C ... teaser.pdf (http://www.bmwusa.com/NR/rdonlyres/C34C5628-8DE1-4176-98A4-C7BD61A07BA0/0/070626_2008_BMW_6_Series_teaser.pdf) . Thousands of words -- where a picture would have been enuogh. And there were loads of pictures, too. I guess BMW was trying to be prepared for the seeing impaired. This press release must have been written by a team of writers in competition with the writers of the new M3 press release to see who could be more overblown and over the top. (I call it a tie.)
It will be interesting to see the new car in the metal. The pop-forward headrests seem like an interesting but rather modest safety feature in the face of the "pre-safe" system in the new Mercedes S and CL classes for the last year. And the stop and go cruise control is only a year late. But to tout modest, incremental changes as if they were the second coming of the design of the automobile is a little much. But, hey, while BMW makes the Ultimate Driving Machines, its press releases are written by the Ultimate Bloviating Machines.
Would someone else be kind enough to lift some photos and post them? If you look at the pictures you don't really need any words. Something the writers for BMW will never understand. Less is more.
Apparently not believing that a picture is worth a thousand words, BMW has issued a bloviating, exultant, hyperbolic, last-year's-news press release, now posted on the BMW NA site http://www.bmwusa.com/NR/rdonlyres/C34C ... teaser.pdf (http://www.bmwusa.com/NR/rdonlyres/C34C5628-8DE1-4176-98A4-C7BD61A07BA0/0/070626_2008_BMW_6_Series_teaser.pdf) . Thousands of words -- where a picture would have been enuogh. And there were loads of pictures, too. I guess BMW was trying to be prepared for the seeing impaired. This press release must have been written by a team of writers in competition with the writers of the new M3 press release to see who could be more overblown and over the top. (I call it a tie.)
It will be interesting to see the new car in the metal. The pop-forward headrests seem like an interesting but rather modest safety feature in the face of the "pre-safe" system in the new Mercedes S and CL classes for the last year. And the stop and go cruise control is only a year late. But to tout modest, incremental changes as if they were the second coming of the design of the automobile is a little much. But, hey, while BMW makes the Ultimate Driving Machines, its press releases are written by the Ultimate Bloviating Machines.
Would someone else be kind enough to lift some photos and post them? If you look at the pictures you don't really need any words. Something the writers for BMW will never understand. Less is more.