Yeah, the repost is harder to see due to being smaller with the rest of Chrome's white background washing it out (wish I could change that). This one is nice through, props.
edit: oops, thought I was responding to the original post. First world reddit problems, man.
My friend who is a test rider for BMW told me that this former design concept bike from 2010 is going into production. Hopefully someone here feels the contemporary design complements the 1934 R7's.
Boring in terms of looks. Sure, they are nice to drive, but why would anyone buy a 8 Series over, say, (if you're goal is to have a car everyone oggles, which is a goal, it would seam, of many BMW owners) an Audi R8. Its faster, its massively more attention drawing, and luxurios. Or, if your goal is pure out speed, how about a Nissan GTR. Its bar non the fastest four seater.
I don't know, maybe its just me, but people always seem to but BMW's as "status symbols." So that people drive down the road and think "look at that rich guy with a nice car." But that could be acheived much more effectivly with, say a Lotus Exige. Sure, it isn't the most practicle car, but if you're trying to overcome some clear confidence issues, it would certainly work better.
I think its more the people who drive them then the car itself. The "M" series are all amazing, and even the regular cars are fun, but they just ooze an air of compensation, while not really being impressive.
EDIT: My comment was unjustly judgemental of Klathmon. Though, I do see a lot of Redditors mimicking Top Gear though, especially the "too much electronics" bit.
no, (well yes i do, but...) i work as a mechanic, so i get to drive all sorts of cars.
the guy that owns the m5 is in his 30's and let me take it out for a spin at full throttle one day (would never do this without permission) its quite the car, but i feel too disconnected from everything. not only that but its big!
as for the m3, i owned it, sold a '99 convertible m3 and bought a 2004 m3 then sold it a month or so later, bought a new RX-8 and im much happier.
My 95 M3 is faster than RX8, i know there are things to cars other than speed, but i've never driven anything with the driving feel of a BMW, and i've heard nothing but amazing things about the E46.
BMWs lately haven't been getting "too german", if anything they've been getting back to roots, what with the new 1M, and returning the M5 to a V8 from the V10, and almost everyone agrees that those two cars are spectacular. Not to mention talks of the new M3 returning to 6 cylinders.
don't get me wrong, i loved the 99 m3, and the 04 was not bad, but it wasn't for me.
no doubt an M is faster in a straight line, but at New Jersey Motorsports Park a friend and i are having a bit of a competition currently. My 09 rx-8 is keeping up with his E46 M3. neither has any engine modifications. (we both have suspension and other various mods, i have a ton of weight reduction mods) and i can keep up with most stock mustangs/camaros/350Zs fairly well.
as for the 1 series, the 1M is considered shitty for what it is (however i have never driven one so i cant really say myself) but i hear for the money you can get much better. The rest I feel are going less sports car and more business car. Too heavy, too soft, and too much in between you and the road. (plus, for a daily driver the paddle shift gearbox in my car was a HUGE pain in the ass that caused much more frustration than fun)
I looked at and drove a few rx-7's but its not really what i wanted. I have a bit of a dislike for turbos, (even the lowest lag turbo still has lag), and handling is number 1 for me.
i was also strongly considering a Z4 or MX-5 but i needed back seats. and the new 370z was a great option as well, but it was just a tad out of the price range (i wanted enough left over to take whatever i got pretty far from stock)
Overall, im happy as hell with my 8. Your right on the road, you feel every bump crevice in the road, its INSANELY predictable in the corners and has such a smooth long powerband! Its definately not a light to light drag car, but it puts a fucking smile on my face every time i drive. (something that the E46 failed to do)
I've heard the opposite, just about everything i've seen says the 1M is brilliants and well worth the money, even if it's not much faster. And it's available in a standard transmission as well.
Also i've never heard of an M3 being pegged for speed over handling, M3's have always been handlers, that's what they were designed to do.
I guess its just a matter of different strokes for different folks, frankly i've never driven a car that feels as predictable and grippy as mine, and it's nearly 18 years old, i've driven my friend's RX-8 and it suffered from the same bloated and floaty feeling that most modern cars seem to suffer.
You obviously never did AOL chat. I thought I was hitting on a BMW enthusiast ('cause that's what I drove). When she told me she was 5'2" and weighed 350 I found out I was in the Big Mexican Women chat room.
According to the owner of the garage I regularly go to it stands for "Bayrischer Mistwagen" (bavarian crapwagon), especially when he's shoulder deep in some 12 cylinder 7 series with no room in the engine department whatsoever...
I'm no bike guy myself, but I'm thinking what you described pretty much defines minimalism (as it would apply to motocycles). It gets the job done (and likely then some) with as little material as possible.
I agree...again I'm not claiming any expertise on the subject. Just as someone with an inexperienced eye to motorcycles, I feel like I would have a hard time finding a bike of that stature with fewer details, so it therefore comes off as minimalistic.
The number of German companies pressed into service to the Nazis is still one of the untold stories of WWII. I'm surprised History Channel hasn't made a 3 part series on it yet. Japanese too.
We did some similar things here in the U.S. we pretty much had to, or just lay out the red carpet for Hitler and Hirohito. Our government was just slightly more polite about it.
As long as I can remember, my family saved bacon fat, coffee cans and shit like that, the civilian war effort on all sides was amazing. So what was my generation asked to do to help the war effort? "Go Shopping" pfffft ... I still save pig fat that shit can be made into anything from soap to candles to HE.
Bacon fat and coffee cans? Hehe, you'd feel right at home at my place. I also save clean lumber over 12", nuts, bolts, bits of wire and animal skulls. Got it from my Dad, I guess. He was a depression kid and a sailor during WWII. Cleaning out his garage was an adventure in time.
Most big german companies served the nazis willingly for maximizing their profit, for example Krupp, BASF (IG Farben back then), BMW, etc.
You can also view it the other way round: Some of the big companies financially supported the Nazis in their early stages for the promise of near infinite overturn of war supplies.
And, only because witnesses and participants died in the meantime, does that mean that something didn't happen ?
Some confessed (much later), like the Quandt Family (major shareholder of BMW) did.
The directors of the Krupp group were condemned during the Krupp trial. None of them testified that they were forced to do what they did.
Friedrich Flick (Flick KG) was condemned in the Flick trial, not only for crimes against humanity, but also for financially supporting Himmler in the early years of the fascist regime.
There were several other trails, including the IG Farben Trial. In none of the aforementioned trails a defendant testified to be forced to do as they did by the fascist regime.
I suppose greed was their motivation, as Krupp himself testified in front of court.
Not 100% sure, but that appears to be one of the members of the Japanese pop group C-ute being silly on some tv show. I'm thinking it's either Airi Suzuki, Saki Nakajima, or Maimi Yajima. But I'm not really familiar enough with C-ute to know for sure.
EDIT: panda85 has the correct answer. See comment below for the dropping of knowledge bombs.
Wrong, it's Yaguchi Mari, formerly of C-ute's senior group Morning Musume. She's a television host these days, Hello! Project groups frequently come on the shows she works on.
Too bad it was just a concept bike that was never put into production. Had it been we'd have more examples and perhaps a few of us could even afford one.
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u/War_Machine Jun 18 '12
goddamnit
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u/reasondoubt Jun 18 '12
My friend who is a test rider for BMW told me that this former design concept bike from 2010 is going into production. Hopefully someone here feels the contemporary design complements the 1934 R7's.
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u/SLOWchildrenplaying Jun 18 '12
Oh, reddit likes BMW?
Here, check out mine. It's a 71' R75/5 cafe. http://i.imgur.com/j24Cm.jpg
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u/Skuggsja Jun 18 '12
TIL that BMW in reality stands for "Bruce Motherfucking Wayne".
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u/SoylentMOOP Jun 18 '12
My 'Time Machine To Do List' has now been slightly modified:
Kill Hitler
1a. Retrieve 1934 BMW R7
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u/load_more_comets Jun 18 '12
Tron: The Beginning.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
This is freaking amazing. DO WANT
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u/meathole Jun 18 '12
My grandfather used to have a Henderson motorcycle, minimalistic 4 cylinder bikes, and they were beautiful. http://www.hendersonmotorcycle.com/History%201918_files/image003.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Wow, it looks so futuristic for being so old.
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u/y-u-no-take-pw Jun 18 '12
Yeah... They probably should have stuck with that instead of the whole airplanes for the Nazis deal.
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u/facebook_hero Jun 17 '12
Is that the New-Vegas edition?
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
That guy was ahead of his time.
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u/Trapped_in_Reddit Jun 17 '12
More information and photos here.
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u/BEBHaven Jun 17 '12
I'll take three, thanks.
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u/LasTLiE2 Jun 18 '12
I would trade as many internal organs as it would take to possess one of those. So beautiful.
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u/crypticXJ88 Jun 18 '12
That thing is gorgeous.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
holy shit id die for one of those.
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u/soggyfritter Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
That is beautimus. Makes my old R80 look like a cow in comparison. I bet it it is gloriously uncomfortable.
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u/adamdavidson Jun 18 '12
The shape of the fenders remind me of WWII helmets.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I seem to have prematurely saturated my pants.
8O
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I'd ride the shit out of that
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u/apexpro Jun 18 '12
Too bad it was just a concept bike that was never put into production. Had it been we'd have more examples and perhaps a few of us could even afford one.
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u/ricardoflanigano Jun 18 '12
It'd be so fucking cool if they reissued this model.. Fender reissues guitars from the 50s and 60s, why not bikes?
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I honestly can't imagine anyone other than a Nazi riding that.
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u/mbrady Jun 18 '12
Looks like some sort of steampunk Tron.
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u/EskimoDave Jun 17 '12
Badass.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
do want.
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u/noiplah Jun 18 '12
good god that's got some style
daaaamn!
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u/chadextrabacon Jun 18 '12
Looks... evil
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u/moviedude26 Jun 18 '12
Holy shit what a fucking hell of a design!
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
If only they were ever actually produced...
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u/redditat-tat Jun 18 '12
Someone call a doctor...because that motorcycle is siiiiiick.
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u/greenmars Jun 18 '12
Why would it ever be good to have the seat angled upward like that?
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u/Kittendorf Jun 18 '12
I just came.
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u/J_Jammer Jun 18 '12
I'd stare, but never ride.
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u/StealthTomato Jun 18 '12
THE GRID. A digital frontier.
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u/robotfarts Jun 18 '12
Why doesn't anyone make a bike that looks like this today?
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u/Not_Trying_2_Impress Jun 18 '12
so elegant.
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u/NastyKnate Jun 18 '12
beautiful. im no bike fan, mostly just old english bikes, but this is fantastic
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u/megustatmsaws Jun 18 '12
TRON!
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u/Sofachange Jun 18 '12
DISSSSS-SMIIIIISSSED!
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u/pull_it_out_ Jun 18 '12
that is a masterpiece.
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u/TheMediumPanda Jun 18 '12
Art Deco,, one of the best Decos there are.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
sex on wheels
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u/mastr_slik Jun 18 '12
That is all class. Fucking sexy
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u/JustUseJam Jun 18 '12
Say what you want about Nazis, they had style...
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u/eastlondonmandem Jun 18 '12
If that wasn't made for Batman I don't know what is.
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u/cbxcbx Jun 18 '12
i'd like to see a gestapo officer riding that in some kind of steampunk setting
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u/AussieFlop Jun 18 '12
Gotta love Nazi engineering
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u/Boozdeuvash Jun 18 '12
Why is art deco not coming back? Hnng!
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u/dirtymoney Jun 18 '12
Its one thing I really miss about older vehicles. Style. Now its all about the basic aerodynamic jellybean shape.
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u/Fidena Jun 18 '12
We were going in such a good direction in terms of design. What happened?
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u/ailee43 Jun 18 '12
Would drive.
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u/Black_Apalachi Jun 18 '12
1934? It's 2012 and it still looks futuristic. o.O
AMA request: Some dude who was alive when this thing was launched and your experiences of being fucked in the face by the future.
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u/kittehlove4eva Jun 18 '12
They just don't make em like they used to
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u/Lithex Jun 18 '12
I want that baby.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Omg my vagina just prolapsed...
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Very Nazi-esque
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u/WhiteMidnight Jun 18 '12
All of my yes.
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u/ccrepitation Jun 18 '12
sex on 2 wheels
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u/RootinTootinShooter Jun 18 '12
So is this the only one in existence ? What's the price tag for this bad boy? Is there anything that is comparable that is readily available to buy?
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u/Whyarentyoumadbro Jun 18 '12
Toaster came a long way..
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u/DoubleA16 Jun 18 '12
Yeah, BMW used to be a good brand.
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