8 Series (G15) [Official] BMW 8 Series Coupé (G15)

[Betty Swollocks]

Humans are used to reading from left to write. Reading the rev counter from bottom to top and having to decide whether to use the left or right reading isn't user friendly.

I would think the aim is for it to be more visible in your peripheral vision than actually being able to "read" it.

 

[Centurion]

I would think the aim is for it to be more visible in your peripheral vision than actually being able to "read" it.

Colored shifts lights like on F1 cars steering wheels have very high pheriperal visibility and dosntrequire reading.

 

[Betty Swollocks]

Colored shifts lights like on F1 cars steering wheels have very high pheriperal visibility and dosntrequire reading.

I would suspect also that HUD will have a high take-up rate on the M8, if it's not standard anyway.

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

Slightly OT as I've wondered about this for awhile now: is there a reason that BMW's have historically fitted their speedometer on the left and their tachometer on the right? Their non-digital gauges have always been legible and considered the benchmark, but the main gauge placement have always annoyed me.

 

[manuelf]

First vids from the Nordschleife Industrypool fast laps already hint at a ring time sub 7:30 for M8 (not sure if in vanilla or Competition guise). Note: Those are first time trials even with some traffic and not with the fastest test drivers of ///M.
So I would expect Jörg Weidinger doing a fast lap on closed circuit with M8 Comp with Semis (if BMW decides to offer semis with the M8 Comp at all and doesn't hold back such an offer for a future M8CS) in the range of 7:1x!

Although this is lighning fast and almost no customer of an M8 will ever accomplish this himself ... at the time the M8 Comp. gets on the market, there will be a 992.1 turbo S, which does a 6:5x in the hands of a Lars Kern or Kevin Estre ... so maybe ///M could already stop optimizing for the very last seconds?

 

[klier]

Its as if BMW asked a 12 year old to reimagine the instrument cluster. The track theme is gimmicky and doesn't improve legibility.

Humans are used to reading from left to write. Reading the rev counter from bottom to top and having to decide whether to use the left or right reading isn't user friendly.

Basically there are now three different ways of...

Three different ways sure. If you put in an example from 1980 it would be even more different. You're just throwing old and new together. Old as in the 1er, middle in the 5er, and new (like how they will ALL be) with the Live Cockpit. Next year everthing will be the same new BMW style. And while I find this screen I have seen of the M8 Live Cockpit confusing, it's still BY FAR the best of the entire industry.

And calling that Lambo UI good is absolutely laughable. It looks like a complete disaster. And what McLaren does is clean and simple, but looks straight from the early '90s.

Also, humans are used to reading from whatever way. Some read from up to down and others from right to left. And another good portion doesn't read at all.

...at the time the M8 Comp. gets on the market, there will be a 992.1 turbo S, which does a 6:5x in the hands of a Lars Kern or Kevin Estre ... so maybe ///M could already stop optimizing for the very last seconds?

But can you race the Ring with 4 adults and 3 Golf bags in your 911 Turbo S
BMW needs it's own sportscar to fend off VAG. Really not that hard.

 

[Centurion]

Three different ways sure. If you put in an example from 1980 it would be even more different. You're just throwing old and new together. Old as in the 1er, middle in the 5er, and new (like how they will ALL be) with the Live Cockpit. Next year everthing will be the same new BMW style. And while I find this screen I have seen of the M8 Live Cockpit confusing, it's still BY FAR the best of the entire industry.

And calling that Lambo UI good is absolutely laughable. It looks like a complete disaster. And what McLaren does is clean and simple, but looks straight from the early '90s.

Also, humans are used to reading from whatever way. Some read from up to down and others from right to left. And another good portion doesn't read at all.

Not that car's should stick to circular guages forever, but the reason why the aviation industry use them despite digitalising cockpits, is because they are easy to read at a glance. If the needle for speed is moving to the left while the one for haudralic pressure and engine RPM is doing so, you can tell within a split second that you have a serious.

It will be interesting to see what BMW instrument clusters will look like long term. Porsche famously got it wrong when they fitted PDK cars with buttons instead of paddles. It was a stupid idea and it didn't take more than 1-2 models years for Porsche to ditch the idea and offer paddles as a retrofit.

 

[Ali8Asad]

And here we go
M8 Competition

 

[Centurion]

I like the black bits on the bottom of the front bumper.

 

[advantage20]

Looks photoshopped to me

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

///Massive-looking ///Mirrors.

 

[Ali8Asad]

Looks photoshopped to me

Yes it’s photoshop

 

[hovabongZA]

No four wheel steering for the M8. Guess haven’t found a way to make it fit or work in their BMW M cars.


https://www.motoring.com.au/bmw-m8-will-be-a-porsche-turbo-killer-118426/

 

[hovabongZA]

And here we go
M8 Competition

That front bumper looks much better than I had anticipated!

 

[nikola1984]

 

[SCOTT27]

I think we have reached the stage where we know what it looks like that is no point in trying to render something that does looks anything like the actual leaks.

 

[Monster]

I think we have reached the stage where we know what it looks like that is no point in trying to render something that does looks anything like the actual leaks.

@klier leaked it months ago already. I don't get why people are still posting crappy PS jobs.

 

[Betty Swollocks]

@klier leaked it months ago already. I don't get why people are still posting crappy PS jobs.

For the same reasons these people continue to post spy shots after the official launch. Thinking takes too much energy.

 

[nikola1984]

 

[advantage20]

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