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BMW's Concept XM Will Be The First Electrified And Most Powerful M Car Ever - Jalopnik
If you didn't like the massive kidney grilles before, you may want to be sure you're sitting down
BMW's Concept XM Will Be The First Electrified And Most Powerful M Car Ever - Jalopnik
At the Art Basel art fair in Miami, Florida (not Basel, Switzerland; the show is international, so, you know, keep up) BMW showed the world their new concept car, which is notable for a lot of reasons: it’s BMW’s first M car not to be based on a current production model since the M1 they stopped...
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Opinion: the BMW Concept XM makes me feel apathy, not anger
One TG writer just can’t help but shrug pitifully at the sight of M’s new SUV thingy
BMW M is fifty next year. It’s a big deal. I’d rank M Division’s produce – and its core model, the M3, in particular – alongside GT department Porsches, RenaultSport hot hatchbacks and V8 mid-engined Ferraris as the four pillars of the performance car world.
So I’ve probably got every right to be incandescent that the car apparently marking M’s big five-oh is the BMW Concept XM, an OTT SUV with a frankly ludicrous grille and a pointless amount of power. But I’m not angry, nor disappointed. I’m not even surprised.
In fact I’m kinda ambivalent to the whole thing. BMW and M are ultimately making what they know will draw up huge profit margins and a heck of a lot of publicity. The fact Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche – among others – are trying to sell us an electric future while still launching vastly overpowered two-tonne lumps annoys the hell out of me, but the cars are clearly selling and these are companies making money, not charities saving the world.
Should M Division’s first standalone model since the very first – the delectable M1 supercar – be anything other than a posh plug-in hybrid crossover? I’d say so. Should it be a stripped-out, driver focused-sports car of some description? Absolutely.
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One TG writer just can’t help but shrug pitifully at the sight of M’s new SUV thingy
BMW M is fifty next year. It’s a big deal. I’d rank M Division’s produce – and its core model, the M3, in particular – alongside GT department Porsches, RenaultSport hot hatchbacks and V8 mid-engined Ferraris as the four pillars of the performance car world.
So I’ve probably got every right to be incandescent that the car apparently marking M’s big five-oh is the BMW Concept XM, an OTT SUV with a frankly ludicrous grille and a pointless amount of power. But I’m not angry, nor disappointed. I’m not even surprised.
In fact I’m kinda ambivalent to the whole thing. BMW and M are ultimately making what they know will draw up huge profit margins and a heck of a lot of publicity. The fact Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche – among others – are trying to sell us an electric future while still launching vastly overpowered two-tonne lumps annoys the hell out of me, but the cars are clearly selling and these are companies making money, not charities saving the world.
Should M Division’s first standalone model since the very first – the delectable M1 supercar – be anything other than a posh plug-in hybrid crossover? I’d say so. Should it be a stripped-out, driver focused-sports car of some description? Absolutely.
Opinion: the BMW Concept XM makes me feel apathy, not anger
One TG writer just can’t help but shrug pitifully at the sight of M’s new SUV thingy
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You Know, BMW Already Designed The Perfect M1 Successor Once Before
At a different time and place, BMW's original pitch for a modern M flagship kept with the brand's roots.
BMW knew exactly what it was doing by naming its new 750-horsepower, plug-in hybrid SUV simply “XM.” Fans knew it, too. The XM isn’t obviously based on any existing BMW car or SUV, like M cars tend to be. It’s its own thing. When it begins production next year, you won’t be able to get an X-sans-M. This is a standalone model that belongs entirely to BMW’s performance division. The last time BMW made a car like that, it was called the M1.
The thing about the M1 is that being a flagship wasn’t the reason for its creation. Of course it was, but that outcome was secondary. The M1 was made for racing and had to be homologated as a road car to compete in various categories. So BMW sold examples to the public, too.
I know this is all very obvious, and I know it’s no fun to pooh-pooh new things just because they’re new and different and weird. The XM can evidently claim a scourge of broken keyboards and smartphones, judging by the prevalence of self-reported nausea from internet car blog commenters over the last 24 hours. We’ve all read enough of the incendiary, entitled takes every time BMW does this — I don’t need nor want to add to them.
At the same time, I also can’t accept the XM as the “M1 successor” many bloggers and enthusiasts have painted it as based on a technicality, the double roundels above the rear window and a couple sentences in BMW’s press release. You know, BMW also mentions the XM’s “coupé-like character” in its text so passively as if to Trojan Horse that statement into the reader’s psyche as fact. Does that make it so?
Maybe the XM reflects what M is now rather than what it was. I can accept that. But I can’t read it as an M1 sequel, partly for the aforementioned reasons and partly because BMW already visualized such a vehicle more than a decade ago. It was called the M1 Hommage.
The M1 Hommage bowed at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in April 2008. The car was clearly never intended for production — it’s never been seen in motion and didn’t have an interior. Even if BMW had been planning to make it, the global recession hitting critical mass later that year would have scuttled such plans.
In that sense, the M1 Hommage was less a car and more sculpture. But it did inspire the design of the i8, and that very much was a car. You can especially see the resemblance in how the side windows trail past the C pillar, separating the bulk of the body from the top.
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At a different time and place, BMW's original pitch for a modern M flagship kept with the brand's roots.
BMW knew exactly what it was doing by naming its new 750-horsepower, plug-in hybrid SUV simply “XM.” Fans knew it, too. The XM isn’t obviously based on any existing BMW car or SUV, like M cars tend to be. It’s its own thing. When it begins production next year, you won’t be able to get an X-sans-M. This is a standalone model that belongs entirely to BMW’s performance division. The last time BMW made a car like that, it was called the M1.
The thing about the M1 is that being a flagship wasn’t the reason for its creation. Of course it was, but that outcome was secondary. The M1 was made for racing and had to be homologated as a road car to compete in various categories. So BMW sold examples to the public, too.
I know this is all very obvious, and I know it’s no fun to pooh-pooh new things just because they’re new and different and weird. The XM can evidently claim a scourge of broken keyboards and smartphones, judging by the prevalence of self-reported nausea from internet car blog commenters over the last 24 hours. We’ve all read enough of the incendiary, entitled takes every time BMW does this — I don’t need nor want to add to them.
At the same time, I also can’t accept the XM as the “M1 successor” many bloggers and enthusiasts have painted it as based on a technicality, the double roundels above the rear window and a couple sentences in BMW’s press release. You know, BMW also mentions the XM’s “coupé-like character” in its text so passively as if to Trojan Horse that statement into the reader’s psyche as fact. Does that make it so?
Maybe the XM reflects what M is now rather than what it was. I can accept that. But I can’t read it as an M1 sequel, partly for the aforementioned reasons and partly because BMW already visualized such a vehicle more than a decade ago. It was called the M1 Hommage.
The M1 Hommage bowed at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in April 2008. The car was clearly never intended for production — it’s never been seen in motion and didn’t have an interior. Even if BMW had been planning to make it, the global recession hitting critical mass later that year would have scuttled such plans.
In that sense, the M1 Hommage was less a car and more sculpture. But it did inspire the design of the i8, and that very much was a car. You can especially see the resemblance in how the side windows trail past the C pillar, separating the bulk of the body from the top.
You Know, BMW Already Designed The Perfect M1 Successor Once Before - Jalopnik
BMW knew exactly what it was doing by naming its new 750-horsepower, plug-in hybrid SUV simply “XM.” Fans knew it, too. The XM isn’t obviously based on any existing BMW car or SUV, like M cars tend to be. It’s its own thing. When it begins production next year, you won’t be able to get an...
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BMW Concept XM - Art Basel Miami 2021.
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Autocar confidential: Why BMW's XM isn't called the X8, Ferrari's design team harmony and more
Our reporters empty their notebooks to round up a week in gossip from across the automotive industry
Why the BMW XM won’t be called the X8
The new BMW Concept XM previews a performance SUV that will sit above the X7 and adopt a more rakish roofline, so you would think it would be called the X8 in production, right? “No. That would be wrong,” BMW M boss Frank van Meel told Autocar. “It is XM. It is X and it is M.” That’s that cleared up, then.
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Our reporters empty their notebooks to round up a week in gossip from across the automotive industry
Why the BMW XM won’t be called the X8
The new BMW Concept XM previews a performance SUV that will sit above the X7 and adopt a more rakish roofline, so you would think it would be called the X8 in production, right? “No. That would be wrong,” BMW M boss Frank van Meel told Autocar. “It is XM. It is X and it is M.” That’s that cleared up, then.
Autocar confidential: Why BMW's XM isn't called the X8, Ferrari's design team harmony and more | Autocar
Our reporters empty their notebooks to round up a week in gossip from across the automotive industry
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BMW X8 Still In The Works Alongside The XM
BMW took the covers off the very controversial BMW XM SUV the other day and it seems they will not be stopping there as they are still planning to roll out an X8 as a coupe-styled derivative of the X7 luxury SUV.
While most of us had thought that role has been attributed to the XM, the second dedicated M model in history after the M1, it would appear the Bavarians believe the two can peacefully coexist.
A report by Auto Bild suggests the BMW X8 will be positioned above the X6 which makes sense with a reveal to take place sometime next year.
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BMW took the covers off the very controversial BMW XM SUV the other day and it seems they will not be stopping there as they are still planning to roll out an X8 as a coupe-styled derivative of the X7 luxury SUV.
While most of us had thought that role has been attributed to the XM, the second dedicated M model in history after the M1, it would appear the Bavarians believe the two can peacefully coexist.
A report by Auto Bild suggests the BMW X8 will be positioned above the X6 which makes sense with a reveal to take place sometime next year.
BMW X8 Still In The Works Alongside the XM
We are yet to see spy shots of prototypes which makes us a little sceptical but we can only wait to see what happens.
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Fahrk!!! That's ugly.
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The XM Concept takes the number 1 spot:
Top Gear’s Top 9: biggest WTF moments of 2021
It’s been another wild and weird year in the world of cars…
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Top Gear’s Top 9: biggest WTF moments of 2021
It’s been another wild and weird year in the world of cars…
Top Gear’s Top 9: biggest WTF moments of 2021
It’s been another wild and weird year in the world of cars…
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BMW M-pire Down
BMW M Division’s new halo car rings the division bell.
When they ship the next tranche of recorded human history data files off into outer space, may I propose that, under the section entitled “Automobile – sub-section Supercars”, they include the BMW M1 alongside the McLaren F1 and the Gordon Murray Automotive’s T.50. Before you set a Twitter mob on me, however, allow me to explain.
It’s not that the BMW M1 was blindingly fast, or achingly beautiful – although in fairness, it was both pretty and sufficiently quick in its heyday – it is just that few cars can match its legacy as the progenitor of such a prolific line of hugely desirable performance offspring. As the machine that started the M-car Empire, the BMW M1 is halo-car royalty.
Just look at it! It’s clear Giorgetto Giugiaro’s 1970s folded-paper design language forms the basis, but as ever, it’s the proportions and the details that deliver the excitement: the low nose, dinky kidneys, pop-up headlights, heavily raked windscreen, vented C-pillars, louvred rear screen and those signature sink-strainer rims. The Paul Rosche and Martin Braungart-engineered M88 3.5-litre 24-valve inline-6 motor was a masterpiece. That same engine also powered the M635CSi and the first M5 – two of BMW’s most successful and influential cars of the 1980s. As a machine designed for pure driving pleasure, the M1 was so significant that BMW decorated its rump with two blue-and-white propeller badges instead of the usual one.
Poring over the design of this patriarch of all BMW sports machines, you get a sense of the way things were, and the way things should be. Sadly though, it appears BMW does not agree. You see, there’s a new M-car in play and it’s so disruptive it’s tearing a hole in the space-time continuum. It’s called the BMW Concept XM and it has me deeply vexed.
It’s like the Tesla Cyber(dump)truck happening all over again. Here’s another new design that purports to be futuristic, but riffs off a 40-year-old car instead. Whereas the Cybertruck might as well have been a DeLorean pickup, the Concept XM wears two badges on a rear end that is clearly styled to channel the distinctive flying buttresses of the M1. Sporting two BMW roundels was perfectly correct on the 2008 M1 Hommage and again on the astonishing 2019 BMW Vision M Next, but seeing them on the eyeball-assaulting behemoth that is the Concept XM is sacrilege. That’s like Mercedes-Benz unveiling a next-gen Gelandewagen Coupe with gullwing doors and then announcing that it channels the 300SL!
The heritage-sullying silliness of twin badges on a monolithic SUV would be a fraction more palatable if the vehicle had been styled to beguile. But no, it has not.
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BMW M Division’s new halo car rings the division bell.
When they ship the next tranche of recorded human history data files off into outer space, may I propose that, under the section entitled “Automobile – sub-section Supercars”, they include the BMW M1 alongside the McLaren F1 and the Gordon Murray Automotive’s T.50. Before you set a Twitter mob on me, however, allow me to explain.
It’s not that the BMW M1 was blindingly fast, or achingly beautiful – although in fairness, it was both pretty and sufficiently quick in its heyday – it is just that few cars can match its legacy as the progenitor of such a prolific line of hugely desirable performance offspring. As the machine that started the M-car Empire, the BMW M1 is halo-car royalty.
Just look at it! It’s clear Giorgetto Giugiaro’s 1970s folded-paper design language forms the basis, but as ever, it’s the proportions and the details that deliver the excitement: the low nose, dinky kidneys, pop-up headlights, heavily raked windscreen, vented C-pillars, louvred rear screen and those signature sink-strainer rims. The Paul Rosche and Martin Braungart-engineered M88 3.5-litre 24-valve inline-6 motor was a masterpiece. That same engine also powered the M635CSi and the first M5 – two of BMW’s most successful and influential cars of the 1980s. As a machine designed for pure driving pleasure, the M1 was so significant that BMW decorated its rump with two blue-and-white propeller badges instead of the usual one.
Poring over the design of this patriarch of all BMW sports machines, you get a sense of the way things were, and the way things should be. Sadly though, it appears BMW does not agree. You see, there’s a new M-car in play and it’s so disruptive it’s tearing a hole in the space-time continuum. It’s called the BMW Concept XM and it has me deeply vexed.
It’s like the Tesla Cyber(dump)truck happening all over again. Here’s another new design that purports to be futuristic, but riffs off a 40-year-old car instead. Whereas the Cybertruck might as well have been a DeLorean pickup, the Concept XM wears two badges on a rear end that is clearly styled to channel the distinctive flying buttresses of the M1. Sporting two BMW roundels was perfectly correct on the 2008 M1 Hommage and again on the astonishing 2019 BMW Vision M Next, but seeing them on the eyeball-assaulting behemoth that is the Concept XM is sacrilege. That’s like Mercedes-Benz unveiling a next-gen Gelandewagen Coupe with gullwing doors and then announcing that it channels the 300SL!
The heritage-sullying silliness of twin badges on a monolithic SUV would be a fraction more palatable if the vehicle had been styled to beguile. But no, it has not.
BMW M-pire Down
The BMW M1's timeless design gives you a sense of the way things should be. Sadly, the Concept XM is so disruptive, it tears a hole in the space-time continuum!
This design reminds me of when someone learns a new design tool in a CAD package and just starts using it everywhere.BMW's Concept XM Will Be The First Electrified And Most Powerful M Car Ever - Jalopnik
If you didn't like the massive kidney grilles before, you may want to be sure you're sitting down
BMW's Concept XM Will Be The First Electrified And Most Powerful M Car Ever - Jalopnik
At the Art Basel art fair in Miami, Florida (not Basel, Switzerland; the show is international, so, you know, keep up) BMW showed the world their new concept car, which is notable for a lot of reasons: it’s BMW’s first M car not to be based on a current production model since the M1 they stopped...