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BMW: birth of a sports car TV Show
This week was the testing and revisions of the E63 6er. It is neat watching how the vehicle progresses as it gets closer to production. The early test mules had a square rear end with e46 Touring tail lamps. Other than that, they used relatively little camoflage that didnt do much to hide the shape of the car. Two weeks from today, Production.
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Correction, one week from today. 12/25 at 3pm PST 6PM EST.
12/4 design
12/8 test
12/5 production
Quote: | This week was the testing and revisions of the E63 6er. It is neat watching how the vehicle progresses as it gets closer to production. The early test mules had a square rear end with e46 Touring tail lamps. Other than that, they used relatively little camoflage that didnt do much to hide the shape of the car. Two weeks from today, Production. |
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It appears to be a German-Canadian production. The narrator and translators all have noticeable Canadian accents. ("Oot" instead of "owt"; ""doe-larrs" instead of "doll-ares." And in both episodes the narrator talks about the car costing $100,000. True, if its Canadian.)
The only times it got really interesting, when there were problems that had to be solved, the film then shied away from the resolutions, except for the windshield heater. How did they resolve the engine overheating problem? I guess BMW didn't want us to worry! Same was true in eipsode 1 when the rear roofline design of the coupe was too low. The implications of the problem were stated, there was a brief hint at the resolution, but nothing to let us know what it meant in the real world of designing this car, and how it changed the overall design initially approved.
All in all interesting to a lot of us because we are driving the end result, but, realistically, total pablum written and paid for by BMW's PR department. (Why can't BMW send us the DVD?)
Having said that, I can't wait for episode 3! (Oh, are we a brainwashed crew!)
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The engine overheating problem is quite curious. 
Any correlation with the ice bucket being offered in the 7 series? 
Quote: It appears to be a German-Canadian production. The narrator and translators all have noticeable Canadian accents. ("Oot" instead of "owt"; ""doe-larrs" instead of "doll-ares." And in both episodes the narrator talks about the car costing $100,000. True, if its Canadian.)
The only times it got really interesting, when there were problems that had to be solved, the film then shied away from the resolutions, except for the windshield heater. How did they resolve the engine overheating problem? I guess BMW didn't want us to worry! Same was true in eipsode 1 when the rear roofline design of the coupe was too low. The implications of the problem were stated, there was a brief hint at the resolution, but nothing to let us know what it meant in the real world of designing this car, and how it changed the overall design initially approved.
All in all interesting to a lot of us because we are driving the end result, but, realistically, total pablum written and paid for by BMW's PR department. (Why can't BMW send us the DVD?)
Having said that, I can't wait for episode 3! (Oh, are we a brainwashed crew!) |
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I'm sure the overheating thing was a just another problem that's worked out during the testing phase.
Apparently, BMWs have a reputation of running their cars hotter than everyone else, and this allows them more packaging flexibility. No one else can consistently do this with their cars, and so everyone else looks towards BMW as a model for this particular aspect of design.
--Andre
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Quote: It appears to be a German-Canadian production. The narrator and translators all have noticeable Canadian accents. ("Oot" instead of "owt"; ""doe-larrs" instead of "doll-ares." And in both episodes the narrator talks about the car costing $100,000. True, if its Canadian.)
Having said that, I can't wait for episode 3! (Oh, are we a brainwashed crew!) | That explains it, the alleged $100,000 price tag was starting to annoy me. That also explains why they use that jibberish of a measuring system called Metric  . If episode 3 (revenge of the 6th) is production, it will be like going to the Performance Center plant tour, but not really.
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BMW: birth of a sports car TV Show