In an alternate universe, BMW gave us the CS Vintage Concept instead of the rodent-faced M3/M4

"marshknute" (marshknute) 09/28/2020 at 14:42 • Filed to: None

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I’m still not entirely convinced the narrow kidney grilles work, but it’s a HELL of a lot better than the new M3/M4's buck teeth.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 14:46

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I would MUCH rather have that than the current abomination...

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 14:47

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I also don’t like this, but it doesn’t make my physically ill like actual new BMWs do.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 14:48

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For Sweden > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 14:49

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That looks like a rodent with narrow teeth

Tripper > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 14:50

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That’s what I’m talking about. I’d like to see the front end “motorsported out” a little bit otherwise ... right on

Milky > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 14:55

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These are better then what we got too.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 14:56

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Nice profile, but I also don’t like the front of this, fwiw.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > For Sweden 09/28/2020 at 14:56

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...and sunglasses?

Textured Soy Protein > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 14:58

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This generally works for me but the front fascia needs tweaking. I don’t like the large flat uninterrupted body color surface surrounding the kidney grille.

Get rid of the bar that connects the top of the headlights, move the kidneys up so their top edge is more aligned with the top of the headlights, make the headlights a little taller by extending their lower edge downward , and change the shape of the lower air opening to be more of a “dog bone” shape like Mercedes.

Future next gen S2000 owner > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 14:58

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I fell like there is a lot of Alfa vibes in that front end.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 15:02

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Can I has this instead?

Jb boin > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 15:14

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While is sort of like the concept (it would be better with two separate headlights and maybe a bit more opening on the bottom/side), it also makes me think of someone :

But the actual rodent face is also not looking like a good guy :

WilliamsSW > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 15:15

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No. Because this is still the ugliest BMW nose ever made, and copying it is a terrible idea.

Sovande > marshknute 09/28/2020 at 15:27

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Yuck. 

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Textured Soy Protein 09/28/2020 at 15:40

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Dog bone? I always call them chipmunk cheeks.

Shoop > Milky 09/28/2020 at 15:47

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Hehebeheheheeeheeheheh

- that car

benn454 > Shoop 09/28/2020 at 18:21

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 "I left an oil stain on the carpet and no one knows it was me. Hehehehehe"

ranwhenparked > Textured Soy Protein 09/28/2020 at 18:51

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Yeah, that’s kind of the same problem the Challenger has. Faithfully reproducing a design from the era of separate chromed bumpers with modern materials and construction techniques results in a large, unbroken body colored mass

Textured Soy Protein > ranwhenparked 09/28/2020 at 19:12

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The Challenger doesn’t have the same problem for me as the headlights and grille are one continuous space and then there’s the lower air opening. It’s inoffensive.

It’s helped by the fact that there’s an upper ledge to the “bumper” instead of being totally flat like the front of this new E9 concept.

Actually the front of Challengers that have plain mesh grilles like this without those 2 rectangles that call back to the old ones...

Look a whole helluva lot like an E9, E21, E24, E28 etc without the kidneys, amber side markers, or forward slant . Although unlike those later cars the E9's kidneys are in a separate body-color portion and not floating on top of a continuous black grille.

If BMW wanted to do a retro-modern interpretation of an E9 or any of those other late 70s/early 80s front ends, it could very well end up looking kinda like a Challenger with kidneys and amber sidemarkers.

ranwhenparked > Textured Soy Protein 09/28/2020 at 19:17

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The Challenger is definately not as egregious, but when you have to kneel down and scrape all the accumulated dead bugs off, you get a new appreciation for how much painted area there is facing into the wind

NebraskaStig > For Sweden 09/29/2020 at 00:08

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I always thought it started with the below , but apparently the above is why the M3/M4 look as they do now

NebraskaStig > Shoop 09/29/2020 at 01:05

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- Uuuuuuh, huh huh. Uuh,... settle down Beavis...huh huh uuh huh...