![]() 06/05/2016 at 17:21 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
today I used my dream car as a camera car. today was awesome.
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![]() 06/05/2016 at 17:30 |
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I love everything about that car...except the double roundals
![]() 06/05/2016 at 17:33 |
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as someone who loves symmetry but not unnecessarily, this is very confusing to me
![]() 06/05/2016 at 17:36 |
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![]() 06/05/2016 at 17:42 |
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One central roundel is ok in my eyes...but having two duplicated roundels is like...ugh. But it’s fine, the car is incredible, the badges didn’t even cross my mind when we were WOT through a tunnel or three.
![]() 06/05/2016 at 17:51 |
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Yeah, what the hell is that about?
![]() 06/05/2016 at 17:52 |
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I happen to like that detail. They are weird, I admit that but they still look nice to me.
![]() 06/05/2016 at 17:59 |
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Never noticed that before. Fixed it.
![]() 06/05/2016 at 18:01 |
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Only BMW ever with double badges.
![]() 06/05/2016 at 18:16 |
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Apart from those owned by douchebags who slap on extra badges.
![]() 06/05/2016 at 18:28 |
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Only factory double badge.
![]() 06/05/2016 at 18:46 |
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You just took away about 30 horsepower.
![]() 06/05/2016 at 19:02 |
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Funny - that’s exactly what I’ve always thought about the back of that car.
![]() 06/05/2016 at 19:13 |
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No source, but if I recall, it was designed in Italy and started life as an Italian project. BMW took over and wanted to make sure no one thought it was a Ferrari when it when by.
![]() 06/05/2016 at 19:25 |
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It was a BMW project, but they farmed out chassis and bodywork to Lambo(they also built the prototypes and were slated to build the production cars). Lambo went bankrupt after getting like 90% of the work done and BMW literally had to steal the mostly-finished cars out of a warehouse to get them back. They hired a group of ex-Lambo engineers to finish the job and built the cars themselves.
The design was cribbed from the BMW Turbo concept car , which also had dual rear badges.
![]() 06/22/2016 at 06:07 |
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that photo credit link is wrong
![]() 06/22/2016 at 08:12 |
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Ok