2009 BMW M Concept Design by Idries Noah
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(from Idries Noah) I grew impatient waiting for BMW to bring out an R8 rival, so I decided to design my own version of it. The recipe was simple. It needed to look Aggressive, Sleek, Agile and totally different from anything on the road today.
Usually I’d study
legendary cars and draw inspiration from that. When designing
the Ferrari F250 Concept e.g. I drew inspiration from cars like the
Dino and 250GTO. This time however I needed
to clear my head and come up with something totally unique while
still keeping some BMW details.
So elements like the
trademark grille and hockey stick pillar remain. My
inspiration for this design however came from nature. More
specifically water and the way it flows and ripples. The side
detailing was inspired by what’s called in surfing terms “ a Barrel
or Tube”. It’s where the wave is hollow when it breaks.
Dimension wise the car
is roughly the same as the R8 and would be powered by a tweaked
version of the 5L V10 found in the M6. It should be good for 400kw
plus. If this car had to go into production in today’s day and age
it would probably lose most of its aggressiveness and bold design
features
And that’s sad because imagine pulling up next to an R8 in this….