I was going to say, I felt the front end was the best part about the car. If anything, the need to fit a large rear trunk was the decision that did the most damage to the design. 

Counterpoint: it doesn’t.

Tell that bum Tacos (I’m not typing that whole name out) that America is winning at cars. This thing looks like a Chinese knockoff of a Mustang and a Corvette mixed together. We don’t like the Chinese right now. I don’t think we do anyway, we might not. Look many have doubted my ability to have a 10 year old son. I…

That’s because all mid engine cars are kind of “similar” looking. Personally I think it looks like a Ferrari body designed by Lamborghini.

I disagree. The rendering looks like a mustang rear end hastily photoshopped onto a c8 with the windscreen pushed back. The C7 looks much better than that render.  That said, I adore the C8 body. 

This is a bad take

It looks a lot more like an NSX, McLaren or Ferrari now. And those are totally rad.  I don’t know why I object to that, but some part of me does.

Yep. The LC500 murders this in the looks/style department and tops out in the low $100k territory, and the 911 does “sports car” better. Imagine paying $155k to have your “symbol of opulence” parked next to Mustangs at the downtown nightclub.

That huge open pillarless design...

I think the problem is that BMW overestimated the demand for a “more expensive” 6 Series. They can repeat that the 8 series is not a replacement for the 6 series until they are blue in the face; but they literally filled every niche they had developed with the 6 with the new 8. Ask yourself this question, if BMW did…

Oh right... BMWs used to be attractive.

Ouch, too many beautiful pics in your comment. My heart can only take so much!

In the last year the 8 series was produced 1999 it was so out there and really stood apart from the BMW line up as truly something special. Here it is compared to the rest of the lineup. I think the equivalent today would be the i8 in how polarizing the 8 series was in 1999 compared to the rest of the lineup.

It doesn’t in person. I’ve seen several, and it looks like BMW were trying very hard to make it look like a mid-engined car because of that windshield being so far forward and the roofline being long.

Or,

The last time they went 6-> 8-Series they introduced a new platform with a V12 which replaced a dated 15 year old platform. This was back in 1990, btw.

I’m a little over 6' and there is a lot of extra room left in my e-Golf.

My brother is 6'3" and he’s never complained about his mk6 and my old roommate is 6'4" and dailies a mk7 Golf R...with a stick too.

Did yall forget these still exist?