how the fuck did they manage that... Didn't even TRY to get a shot of the back!

@@asdf12347109 These videos for some reason go out of their way to hide certain details and I imagine it’s mentioned off camera for very specific reasons.

I believe it would have shown a design language for 2023 7 series

4:30 Looks like the trunk/boot is not fully closed. Maybe this is the reason that they didn’t show the rear of the car because of a problem with the trunk.

I guess because the car never existed in '95... The back isn't even finished.

And E37 z3

Big shout-out, thanks for designing such a reliable car like the e39

Most of new technology is old, but wrapt in new design,

Most of the technology that we have to our cars now (2021 MY) maybe is about 10 years old

@@BestMotorWerks indeed, for example electronics companies produces too much displays, procesors, camera' and then sells them to brands like renault, toyota very cheap because they are outdate and need to be sold, and for car manufacters no matter they know the competition are gonna have same components, i was shoked how poor is the display in toyota auris 2015 , and MMi console is very slow.

BMW is still using INPA. A DOS/WIN NT based diagnostic software that you can still use :D and don't get me started on other brands. Mercedes used their pink Windows95 diagnostic tools for waaaay too long before the 1st somewhat better diagnostic SW came out. Some brands still used DOS diagnostic tools after 2000. Not to mention the programming of the cars. If you remember Windows Mobile or WinCE computers then those are on par with most of the car hardware manufacturers use even nowadays. Some manufacturers go even lower and you could place them among a 486 and a 386 computer. All the fancyness is in the frontend layout you are using with the buttons and touch screens etc. And not only cars. ATM machines were running on Windows XP for decades. Some even on WinCE. Imagine your personal account being connected with your card on a touch screen PC with WinCE 5.0 on it in the year of lets say 2016. Btw hi tech medical equipment still runs on WinCE. It is easy to create programs for but mostly because WinCE simply cannot BSOD. You'd have to really mess up programming to shut donw a working WinCE system. Those could run for weeks and even months without the need for a restart. Most manufacturers (regardles the product) are developing things today that are going to be on sale after a few years and not sooner. That way you can allow your product more time to be developed properly and you can modify your development based on customer feedback from whatever you released previously. It would be a death trap to force yourself into developing things on the fly in realtime - meaning to sell whatever you currently got coocking as it would be too much of a risk if you could'nt hit the spot on the market and your products would'nt sell so well... or at all. Bankrupcy in a heartbeat. So much for a company's "Staying ahead" motto :) they are not staying ahead but they are keeping their customers behind to buy themselves time :)

Yes. I didn’t know it was the same for car technology as well. I was very surprised to find out that the F35 Lightning II started development in the 1980s. Still seems like it is filled with a lot of new technology however.

It started with the 303, in 1933. So, nothing new.

@@nunofosilva Bullshit. The 303 had elegant, rounded grilles. Not the square shit they put on the M4. And even this car has the proper vertical slats that the modern cars don't have

@@ThaMythbuster no one talked about elegance. The subject it's oversized kidney grill. I don't hate it to be honest. Not great, not terrible.

@@nunofosilva all cars back then had massive grills because cars had massive radiators...it wasn’t design language

I'm pretty sure they are showing this car now because the all new 7 will have a huge ugly grille too and by showing this people hopefully hate it less when they see it has some history.

How could they make a video about this car and not even show the rear? Concepts are not shown every day, and when you take the time to take it out, invite a designer, film and edit a video, that is a real shame.

The top of the bootlid looks like from e65, along with the bangler butt. But there is no direct visuality

It feels like they purposely didn’t show it. It was definitely not filmed for some reason…

@@Johnnygga according to someone else in the comments, it was done intentionally since they may use the rear of the car as the design template for the newer 7er

theres some shady Japanese business going on

lol no

@@alpha-cf2oi Ok beta

Man after my own heart, was literally going to type this exact comment lol. BTW it's @blackbmwlife aka guy with the Eventuri V10 carbon plenum prototype...need to meet up soon bro 👊🙏

Correct, I have the CF plenum from Manhart with the complete SS exhaust on my e61!

Did anyone have seen the E60 M5 with the DCT ever driven? Greetings from instagram.com/henrygeorge_m5

Oké no probleem i will make iT

big ups to hamza

and E36, and E90

Cries in E46 noises

?? Thought E30-E46 and in parts E65/66 was designed by Claus Luthe..?

@@oumaniac Hmmm, that's why the E36 interior looks slightly Japanese. The arrangement of the air vents (one vent to the left and one center vent to the right of the steering wheel on the driver's side and two air vents together on the passenger side) is clearly a Japanese element. The Integra DC5, the S2000, the Insight MK1 and MK2 and the Supra A80, they all have this arrangement!

@@oumaniac He didn’t design the E36, it was designed before he arrived in November 1988.

Judging by the front, it was probably to prevent the designer from losing face.

This is probably why it didn't go into production!

@@TheLeo328 and yet they put that grill into production now.

It's a message that doesn't need mentioning when it's right there for everyone to see. I think they wanted to show this if the next 7 will have a similar grille, so then there is a connection to this concept car when it's revealed.

@@TheLeo328 they have been using large grilles since the very beginning - just look at the grille of a 1933 BMW 303 and get over it

It's kinda good touch on this prototype. I like it very much, but not on current gen.

I agree, but it’s deliberate omission. They have dictated what they don’t want you to see off-camera. Same thing with ICE concept.

Eww no with that hideous grill , e65 was nice only the headlight seemed weird , which they fixed in the face lifted e66

It's the E65 in crude

E65 innovation let BMW outsell Mercedes for 1st time in history, why do you think its designer is current design chief?

This is not novel, as numerous concepts or design studies used cameras in this manner. I don’t know why people are so easily impressed by what was commonplace on non-production vehicles . Name me a production vehicle from 1996 to 2017 with cameras as side view mirrors, then I’ll be impressed.

😂 I think the rear never got finished...

I wish they produced this 7 series, even for a limited run. And I actually like the Bangle designs and the E65. But it would've been great if this concept preceded the E65, it looks like a natural evolution of the E39 era (same designer as in the video)

Not that amazing. The idea of cameras by then was already old thanks to the Japanese.

@@nessuno5403 not true. The digital camera was invented by Germany in the 1920’s and only later sold the copyright to Japan in the late 80’s. That’s common knowledge but anyway I was talking about mirror cameras in cars.

Almost everyone used cameras as mirrors on concept vehicles during the past 3 decades. It wasn’t even novel to use on a design study in 1996. Implementation on production vehicles is the real game changer and Nagashima had no say in that anyway, as he wasn’t design director nor R&D director.

bud, they've been using large grilles from the very beginning. look at a 1933 BMW 303 and get over it

Ok Hitler, relax. Still looks ugly even after almost 100 years later.

Apparently it's dated from 1995! So it's probably not a mix of old and new, but rather an incredibly advanced and futuristic concept car.

THE one...

Glass covered B-pillars are expensive.

Bangle was just signing it. A passed away italian designer who is originally designed the e60, just finished the drawings and some time later he died in last quarter of 2000. The design team was so sad, and they just don't want to change the design. So the e60 born, chris bangle was the chief actually

@@MokokoMokoko Davide Arcangeli. The whole car was designed as of December 2000, when he died. It paralleled release of the E39 LCI, as typically that is when the next generation design is completed.

Has nothing to do with 1996, other than when it was created. Even if this was approved for production, it would’ve been the E65 anyway, which it was in the end. Bangle and Nagashima were overruled by executive personnel regarding this grille, when the final design was completed in 1998 for 2002 7er. This was the original design study for E65.

@@jmin8400 yes ,and it is obvious this is e65 inside ,out, but find this car very advance for 1996. I remember in 2001 when e65 was presented, even it was weird looking outside, all car magazines and people was amazed how futuristic interior is even for that year.

@@divanosoba9658 I can agree with that. I today drive a G12 M760i and it didn't match the extreme effect the E65 had on the industry 2 decades ago. However remember that the Z9 concept in September 1999 did reveal it somewhat to the public, while ZBF was kept behind closed doors.

Nagashima is a very talented man, but you seem to be ignorant of what his responsibilities actually were for this project…

Ich hätte das Konzept Auto mal gerne von hinten gesehen... und am coolsten wäre halt auch mal die Zündung zu aktivieren damit man mal die Beleuchtung sieh. Ich kann mir vorstellen das da auch nen paar crazy Sachen zum vorschein kommen. Schade.

Das hätten die zwei nicht geschafft. Die kämpfen beide echt hart mit der englischen Sprache... Hätten beide in ihrer Muttersrache geredet und im Cut wäre eine Übersetzung drübergelegt worden - dieses Gespräch wäre pures Gold. Sehr viel verschenktes Potenzial, meiner Meinung nach. Schade.

@@martinw.2692Das Stimpt ! Muttersprache mit untertiteln fur die Beide wird viel besser .

@@GamersSide4you Das Heck ist wahrscheinlich nicht fertig gemacht worden... Ich frage mich sogar ob dieses Auto hier überhaupt damals in den 90er existierte... Bestimmt wurde es vor kurzem hergestellt damit sie was fürs Marketing haben für die heutigen riesigen Nieren... 😅

@@Kev27RS :D Das mit dem Heck kann natürlich sein. Vlt. ist da eine Design Idee die beim nächsten 7er nächstes Jahr gezeigt wird^^ Die Riesennieren sind ja schon längst ausm Sack

Was there a concept? Entire '70's 1 sausage 3 sizes model range work of Paul Bracq, as he had given Mercedes uniform corporate design decade earlier, from Pagoda SL to 600 limo.

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