BMW's Vision EfficientDynamics concept won't look a tenth this wild when it hits the streets
By Paul Miller 
posted August 30th 2009 12:57AM
posted August 30th 2009 12:57AM
posted August 30th 2009 12:57AM
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WANT!!! Oddly enough the engineers talk as if they're actually planning to release this baby.
They talk as if they're competing to see who can fit the most buzzwords in a sentence.
In my opinion car makers should stop making concept cars to prove to us what they can make but actually make the car mainstream. I want to see something that I can go into a dealership to take a look at. Stop wasting our time on these cars that wont even hit the streets.. After all, they make them only for bragging rights.
Yeah I'm pretty sure there once were some guy saying the exact same thing 40 years ago when the first hybrid concept car showed up.
door dings are going to be expensive.
I would buy this even if I had to sell everything i own.
I would buy this even if it meant selling everything I own!
oops I just parked meine Vanagon on top of it!
Man that thing is beautiful.
looks more like those game trailers ... effing strategic mgmt
umm looks like an overpriced chevy volt lol straight up
The first thing i noticed was the size of the vehicle. It lookes like you pretty much have to crawl into this thing. I'm just saying this car looks extremely small and comparing that to overweight trend that we are going towards, I see a few issues. If you can somehow fit two overweigt people in this thing gl getting the doors shut and hope to god it doesn't bottom out.
With a car like this your not suppose to have fat friends..
Get rid of the grotesque blue LEDs, fit it with some normal doors (preferably not anything Gullwing-ish) and a darker interior. Oh, and don't forget to raise the suspension a bit, so we could actually drive over a speedbump. Then I'll take it for whatever the price, BMW. Annoyingly this will never ever make it to production stage (what some commenters have already pointed out). Instead they're probably gonna make it a boring plugin-hybrid BMW 1. :(
It's called a "concept car" because it's just an idea, a representation of future posibilities. If it was meant to be anything otherwise, they would have called it a "new model". Expand your brains and just imagine!
Am I the only one who hates this whole futuristic car look? YUK!
Hope cars never look like that.
Yes you are.
That is too wild? Wow, you americans sure are behind in everything.
I want one...
Dude wtf are you talking about?
There's no such thing as a "cure for aids".
I have owned a couple 3 series, a couple Z series and an M3. I was in a horrible crash once and a 2002 saved our lives where none of the 3 of us were wearing seat belts. I am VERY loyal to BMW. This, however, is a very UNattractive car. Too modern, stripped of character and low to the ground. Diesel, the most polluting of all the auto fuels. Yuk. When is BMW going to start asking their current and past car owners what THEY want in a car?
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Henry Ford
M3-like performance + hybrid efficiency. That's pretty attractive in my book.
Um... get your facts straight...
"Diesel-powered cars generally have a better fuel economy than equivalent gasoline engines and produce less greenhouse gas emission. Their greater economy is due to the higher energy per-litre content of diesel fuel and the intrinsic efficiency of the diesel engine. While petrodiesel's higher density results in higher greenhouse gas emissions per litre compared to gasoline,[10] the 20–40% better fuel economy achieved by modern diesel-engined automobiles offsets the higher-per-litre emissions of greenhouse gases, and produces 10-20 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than comparable gasoline vehicles."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_fuel
I like the lofty appearance of the car with those 'cut open' / welded surfaces, very cool. Agree with the blue LED overkill, the car would just look so much more classy without those along with some other ting-a-ling german techno-porn features. They should have more concentrated on making the car look 'essential' and purist, it would have helped them to get their message of sustainability across.
anyone think this (NEW, AMAZING and INNOVATIVE) design could be the helping work of Apple.
Good job on finding such a sleezy guy BMW, and it shows you know your market, which is 50% dodgy criminal types over here.
Why do these car companies spend all this money bnuilding these concept cars with such radical designs... spend millions of dollars on something that clearly wont ever be streetworthy. Show it off to the public saying "look how cool this is". then when they finally release the car it looks just like the last mobel, dull as hell. So they spend another couple million redesigning it down to a normal body that they new they were gonna half to do in the first place? Throwing away money, its no wonder the car companies are going bankrupt.
it's funnn how companies can throw millions on designing a concept car..then approve it for production after millions more are poured into focus groups..then turn around and butcher it to make it more cost efficient... and now it looks like last years model..
i guess it's still a BMW....
I jizzed watching this.
hmm... I predict speed bumps being hell in the future...
Also, when I saw this, I thought WipEout
its already has a flat tire!
That looks sexy
This car has share standards-compliant ecologies that incentivize user-centred ecologies. Please don't try to put down this car by disintermediate blogging network effects. The design definitely captures user-centred value. I wish they would show the dashboard integrate rich-client platforms. I also desire that BMW would remix embedded folksonomies, but alas they didn't. But what really excites me is the possibility for undefined data-driven synergies and for utilization of mission-critical e-markets. What this car will do is revolutionize transition transparent relationships between green companies and oil companies. Well done again BMW!
I just so want a new BMW X6!
don't need this, I have a big Johnson alreay ;-)
Can't wait to drive that German built Prius.
What more cars need is thin seats like in this concept.
One of the reasons cars keep getting bigger and bigger with the interiors staying the same is that seats are getting thicker all the time. Mazda did it right with the RX-8 -- very thin seats. You could built a seat like an Aeron chair and have a ton of rear seat space as a result.
Awesome looking car. BMW makes great stuff, so this shouldn't be any different (I hope).
If it looks tenth as good, I'm still a buyer....
Man, I can't wait for the Aptera. Now's that is a concept car turned reality!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M9SizIzpQg
neon lights and cheap polycarbonate-looking body.. go figure
And where are the solar panels we desperately need on top of our eco-vehicles these days? sheez were baking out here, take advantage!
its ugly. and put at least a v8 in it, a nice LOUD v8. a small electric for when you are just driving, but the v8 for when you really want to DRIVE
But Mr. Van Hooydonk, where are the cupholders?
...(still salivating. though)...
Just because it`s a `Concept`, doesn`t mean that swome of the ideas involved wont be used on future cars! The idea being that if it would work on paper, maybe it could be incorporated in real time. At least they seem to be thinking about `Hybrid-Engines`, even if it doesn`t actually appear anything like the `Concept` looks!
It was also interesting to note that it`s not a `Rear Wheel Drive`, as most if not all B.M.W.s are! I agree it can be a 4 wheel drive, but the electric engine powers the front axle