Why do car companies always do this? Here's our "experimental" model, which is beautiful, well thought out, and thoroughly awesome, and here is our less attractive, less efficient, less well thought out production model. What the hell?! Why can't car companies for once, FOR ONCE, make one of these cool concepts a reality? Somebody explain that to me please! And don't say: because nobody would buy one. (Admittedly) Just speaking from a personal standpoint, I would sell my sister for one of these machines.
@LouisJebber: Out of curiosity, did you have some sort of success at Engadget with that pretty lame comment? Success enough to wait two days, think about it a lot, then decide to post it here?
@Pope John Peeps II: No, Gizmodo was just 2 days late of announcing this news. It was on Engadget 2 days earlier. I've been noticing that a lot lately. Engadget announcing stuff only to have Gizmodo be late on the ball. I apologize "pope" if I'm offending your fanboyism for Gizmodo... #bmwsimple
Again, reminding me of the whole "enclosed motorcycle" thing that kept showing up in cyberpunk. I might actually get something like this, though, if it was cheap enough to justify the lack of flexibility inherent in having a one-person transport.
So basically they bought a Carver, took it apart, rebuilt it, slapped a bimmer label on it and called it a concept vehicle. Um...its been in production for a while now.
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@OME6A: With the 5, 6 and 7 series still in existence, I see Bimmer pumping out butt fugly for years to come, cuz man are those some piggish nightmares to look at.
@Kaiser-Machead: Ah, but Chris Bangle has left BMW as head of design, so there's hope that the ugly will be shaken out of those lines in the next 3 or 4 years.
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The delay is due to engineers having a problem combining the terms "BMW" and "Simple"
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(Sis, if you're reading this... tough.)
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George Lucas called, said he wanted his car back...
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inverted the wheel position, but this mercedes life-jet was around in 1997:
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