This too... I had one of the very last E82 BMWs. It was a 135is and I hope the new owner loves it as much as I did.

Except for inordinate amounts of frame rust.

I don’t quite “miss it” but i do have some fond memory of them

Andrew! Hope you are doing well. Buy an XC90 or something. Comfortable, refined, and capable. Maintenance runs on the pricey side, but if you aren’t driving too often that doesn’t matter much.

Nice looking bike.

Yeah, paint was my first thought as well when I first saw it. They kinda just magicked away the explanation though. Their testing for the “life” of the car was probably only a few hundred cycles though, since most of these will just be driven at 5mph from the garage to a trailer, and from the trailer to some spot on a…

Whatever. Camaros have come standard with red necks for decades.

“Now, the diesel V10 Touareg? That’s scary!”

Nope, its a 720s with some ugly af wheel covers and long tail, also they threw in some cf Pagani Huayra aero flaps. I bet this thing wont out perform a Koenigsegg and if it does it wont be by much.

It never stopped looking shockingly fucking awful to my eyes.

Nope.  25 years on from the F1 and we got....longtail bodywork that looks like a freshly pinched off dog turd, a centre driving position and a MP4-12c/570/650/720 snout with some LCD screens and all the interior ambience of a mid 90s Tokyo conference room.  What a waste of potential.

Am I alone in being completely underwhelmed by this thing?

Not to trash it or anything, but this looks almost like what a Lincoln version of the Mustang would be. If the guys at Ford were like we need to take the Mustang and make it a bit more luxurious.  It’s all I can see when I look at it.  My brain knows this is a BMW 8 series, but it keeps trying to say there is…

like a mustang with a malibu ass job

I’m still way more partial to how the concept looked. I know the oversized “pig-snout” gets some flak but to me, it looks closer to what a successor to the E31 should look like. I don’t think the new car looks bad either but that’s just me.

McLaren’s design team goes for a walk during lunch.

“Hoonitruck”......... Ken Block is to cars, what Guy Fieri is to food....

I think this is about as much as a “truck” as these are.

As long as people don’t wear flat caps and tuck their ears under the cap.

Once you see the similarities, it can’t be unseen.