OMG! Finally a journalist who got it right!

[Mr Robert]

By, the mags do not write articles, people ("journalists") do. For a same mag author A can write a trash, while author B on the other hand can write an excellent write-up. And in the end it's all up to the editor what he is publishing, and what not. But that's another story.

True, but most magazines have an image and subscribers identifying themselves with that image and the values expressed by the authors. A magazine like MT, for example, might be the equivalent of say Car or Evo here in Europe and those have an adverse attitude to things like SUV:s. The fact that cars like the Porsche GTS or BMW X6 tries to do somehting else han they look like they would do, might very well place them in the pointless-bin. The placing is highly dependant on how you chose to look at it - is it innovative, waste of a good engine or just plain silly? The car is still the same.

 

[EnI]

Hey eni would there be any images of the clay e65 anywhere? I'm interested in seeing how it looked and what exactly was lost in translation.

All I could find in my archives are the sketches of E65 interior & exterior.
But I remember the early clay models were very much more true to the original sketches. But than all the problems began - since design engineers & development engineers didn't do their job properly IMO - and many details on the front (kidney grille, headlight clusters, bumper / air intake) & rear (boot-lid incl rearlight strip).


Exterior sketches by Mr. Adrian van Hooydonk




The initial proposal (also first smaller clay models) offers more compact grille (less horizontally stretched) with a bit more pointed edges. Air intake was more similar to the one then seen on original E60 5er. Headlights were more angular & more fallen-P-shaped, while production version was more a fallen-B-shaped (due light projector sizes). Also the eyebrow turn signal was initially planned to be the same tech as the rear lights of Z8. But the production solution was quite dorky - since using regular bulb.

On the rear the boot lid was initially more similar to FL version - so, more refined. But developers were obsessed with golf bags & putting them into the boot. Also they tried to produce better drag coefficient therefore the boot was raised. And since it was raised they were forced to reposition the license plate holder & light strip to make the rear visually more balanced.
Btw, initially E65 the main tail light graphics was the same as seen on E63 6er, while the light strip on a boot contains fog lights & reverse lights.

So, quite some changes were made before the car went into production.
Eg. similar case happened with eg. E90 3er tail lights - but the reason why they changed it was different.




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Interior sketch by Mrs. Swantje Roessner:

 

[LaArtist]

umm someone really lost the plot from that drawing to the product

 

[klier]

^ LOL...kinda true....but read Eni's post above....kinda looks like the production model got the cheap solutions, like bulb light eyebrows instead of sleek LED ones.....

 

[Giannis]

Eg. similar case happened with eg. E90 3er tail lights - but the reason why they changed it was different.

OT, but why did they changed them?

 

[Jdt90]

Thanks a-million ENI, very insightful...disappointing at how a design could fall apart during the design stage instead of come together.A Lesson that I'll hopefully learn some day.

 

[Deleted member 25]

OT, but why did they changed them?

They were similar to the facelifted A4's tail lights, i dunno if it's the reason though.