Real-life Observation that defies explanation...

[EnI]

My bad ...

I was told yesterday the pics on mediapool were the official pics of prototypes from the DPC presentation / test driving.

 

[SCOTT27]

You are not entirely to blame the mediapool was uploaded with X6 marketing material but we had a last minute delay , In which the engineers had to finalize something - We always have constant improvement , since our early problems with the E65 each model devlopment plan is prolonged to make sure something like that does not happen.

An M3 Cabrio shot of the car with roof erected driving through a torrential downpour had to be axed because the result did not turn out to what we wanted.

Plus in our marketing one of our hired free runners was injured so we had to go and do something else and then return to the Milenium Stadium in Cardiff UK so he could jump the Chasm of the sliding roof - we had four cameras one in a helicopter above , a helicopter beside and a camera looking up from the ground. But arrrgh! You are not allowed to smoke inside buildings in the UK anymore....

One car ready to go though for the end of January is the BMW 135i Cabrio (seperate marketing for this model).

 

[Zafiro]

So no more BMW news this year?

 

[SCOTT27]

So no more BMW news this year?

No there will be news to end 2007. Something has to end for something new to begin...

 

[klier]

So it is in 2007 not possible anymore to simply take some great shots of a new car, with nice wheels and a nice color?
You now have to hire people to jump off roofs with helicopters to film it for the launch of a new car so that people can get injured and we have to wait weeks longer for our beloved pics?

Instead of all this crazy stuff, why not take some time to get some good angles for the initial press shots and a more neutral exterior color (not like the reddish M6 and greenish 1er cabrio, for example)

Give me the X6, and you will have awesome press shots next day. Plus, just you you guys, it's free

No there will be news to end 2007. Something has to end for something new to begin...

Well that's great! At least we have something to look forward to this month then. It would have been a quiet December month without any new BMW

 

[EMpower]

Okay, lol. Just making sure I wasn't dreaming. Thank you for the reassurance EMPower, you know how it is when you start going slightly crazy over something, reality begins to blur along its fine line. Do you know when they might plan on launching it, will it be a long while after the X6 debuts (like in 2009)?

Yes, in 2009.

 

[EMpower]

No there will be news to end 2007. Something has to end for something new to begin...

So, no X6 press release this year? That will be a sad christmas.

 

[EMpower]

My bad ...

I was told yesterday the pics on mediapool were the official pics of prototypes from the DPC presentation / test driving.

Did you see this post by Scott?

 

[EnI]

Did you see this post by Scott?

I have now.

But again: I was told the material from DPC presentation test drive is available there - incl some X6 pics. Yet still the taped prototypes - as seen in magazines. Kind a false alarm.

I guess there will be a "big boom" presentation of X6 at the NAIAS press conference in January 2008, and press material released just after that.

 

[Zafiro]

Hopefully we see M3 Convertible and the new DCT gearbox this month.

 

[vedjo01]

Hopefully we see M3 Convertible and the new DCT gearbox this month.

That would be something..A real christmas present by BMW,wouldn´t you say?IMO,I really want to see this new gearbox in action and what it can do to performance of new M3..but I bet it will be a real masterpiece .

 

[JadeVetti]

**Warning: My forlong expressions are beginning to reflect in my posts in the attempt of acquiring news about the X6.**


Damn 2009 seems so so far away...(sigh). I don't know...now I'm thinking of what car to get to get me over until the X6M arrives...I never thought of the back up, figured I'd be swapping my Honda in Spring when the lease is done for this one...

Like I've said (it before), Damn You, BMW--

 

[martinbo]

Buy yourself an X5 3.0d, that way you'll get accustomed to the height, weight and dynamics of the car as well as ensuring good residual values (don't know about US but 3.0d X5's down here show remarkable resistance to depreciation).

You'll get the nice feeling of owning and driving a BMW SAV without diluting the excitement of moving on to the X6M.

 

[JadeVetti]

I've come to a conclusion. I will buy out my lease, and if anything changes, I'll trade it in. I regret now not doing the X5 over a year ago when the new body changed. I'm obsessed with the "must be first, ooh" effect.

Thanks for your opinion, Martin.

 

[martinbo]

I've come to a conclusion. I will buy out my lease, and if anything changes, I'll trade it in. I regret now not doing the X5 over a year ago when the new body changed. I'm obsessed with the "must be first, ooh" effect.

Thanks for your opinion, Martin.

I've gone the other way Jade. I'm not prepared to be any manufacturer's guinea pig any longer. I am of the absolutely certain opinion that one should steer clear of owning the "latest and greatest". My own experience and history have proven that the best cars to buy are the mid-life facelift models where the "bugs" have been ironed out.

Cars these days are an amalgamation of spectacular mechanical precision mated with mind-boggling systems management software. In a sense, cars are becoming more like cellular phones from early adopter's point of view; sure you can brandish your latest mobile communication device replete with GPS, Playstation games and laser bomb guidance but chances are it'll need a software patch sooner rather than later.

Cars are much more complex than cellphones and they too require endless testing and evaluation to ensure that the product is at least consumer ready to a point. But they don't always get all the problems sorted out. A hundred test cars can't mathematically yield the all possible failures that will emerge with the first 5000 cars sold.

Even something as mechanically robust and "relatively" low tech as a Subaru can benefit from a simple ECU Reflash as I had come to experience. The car performs ever so slightly better and I'm getting an extra 70 km per tank!

And it's not just limited to software, your car's local area network (formerly known as the good old wiring harness) also can wreak havoc with reliability, a famous example of which was the pre-facelift E-Class. The E270 CDI of which was particularly notorious.

Latest and greatest? Nah, keep 'em... I've been there and done that and suffered the consequences.

 

[CorpusCallosum]

Waiting for the facelift 3 series before i got my soon to be wife one... mainly because I'm hoping for a much improved interior that isnt so boring she will fall asleep and run into something or something... but definetly for the "ironing out of the creases" aswell

 

[JadeVetti]

It's amazing that just earlier today I was thinking about how cars feel like cell phones and that you can keep waiting, there will always be something that is just out the box, so if that's the case, then I might as well wait forever and do nothing, or just get real logical. For instance, if my lease is up and I have to get a new car, shop for one from that point with a span out to six months. So if I am looking at a the E class, and I know the body may change in 6 months, then either get something else that just changed, or wait till then. But not longer.

I don't even know how far away the E class is from a makeover, but I digress. That is starting another thread that belongs nowhere here. In a way I do feel like a squealing guinea pig. And now my head is beginning to hurt with all the up and coming models around, so I am just getting whatever suits best come spring time. Or summer. If the X6 is out come summertime, then great, I will do it. If not, I'll look into something else.

I feel bad for myself to feel like a guinea! But it's a habit I gotta kick, quick. I'll get there...smile).

 

[cbryce]

KI guess Porsche Cayenne GTS will give it some competition. What do you ll think?

 

[JadeVetti]

I think Porsche will be its direct competitor, even though the concept may have derived from the Infiniti and its success.

But I'm not a Porsche fan, so I'm being frank when I say I'd never even notice it...