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      01-12-2021, 10:38 AM   #1
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First, I want to preface by stating that this is just for fun. I am not an automotive designer, heck, I hardly even dwell in the graphic design world anymore. My intent isn't to blast the current design, or to send a statement to anyone. Love or hate the render, don't take it too seriously. Again, it's just for fun.


I have always loved the design of the M8, and wanted to see how those elements would translate onto the G80. My goal was to make a design that blended the M3 and M8, and to smooth out some of the clunkiness that I felt in the current design of the G80. Below are the designs, and list of modifications:






Front Bumper:
Essentially a swap over of the front bumper from the M8. The M8 is much larger, lower, and longer, so the bumper had to be properly proportioned to fit onto the G80. Mainly it had to be made taller. Hood and hood-line was also carried over from the M8. I would have liked to have seen a power dome, but I was being lazy. Maybe in the future I will add one.



Side Grills:
One of the first things on the G80 that caught my eye was how unfinished the side grills look. It looks like BMW started making them then stopped 1/3rd of the way through. I thought they should continue downwards towards the side skirt more, following the crease they made in the fender. Again, using the side grill from the M8, re-shaping and re-proportioning, I was able to come up with something I thought looked much more purposeful.



Side Skirt:
The blacked out portion of the G80's side skirt looked really clunky to me; Aftermarket, and not in a good way. I smoothed out and "painted" the side skirt to match the body color. I used the shape of the current side skirt protrusion on the G80, shrunk it down, and moved it to the bottom of the side skirt. I thought this was a cleaner solution, while still maintaining extension BMW had established.


Rear Bumper:
Like the side skirts, the blacked out portions BMW added to the rear bumper made the whole thing look clunky. First, I deleted them by adding the lower section of the M8 rear bumper. Next I took the triangular "vent" and reflector from the M8, and integrated it into the horizontal line that extends from the trunk to the rear bumper. Only the edge of the rear diffuser had to be reshaped to work with the new shape of the bumper.


Other:
Car got a subtle drop, window tint and debadge on the rear. The color is Hockenheim Silver. The original images are from BMW's Individual Visualizer.

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      01-12-2021, 11:48 AM   #2
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Nicely done. With the addition of a power dome, it would be perfect.
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      01-12-2021, 12:09 PM   #3
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It looks very good, but after seeing this i'm happy that they went with something fresh and different.
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      01-12-2021, 01:25 PM   #4
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That looks great!

I really like the styling of the M2cs, M5, M8, even the G20.

The 4 series and G8X grilles just look too tall it overpowers the entire car.
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Give this person a cookie! Well done!
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      01-12-2021, 06:50 PM   #6
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I feel that a conservative design like this would've made more people happy but less people excited.

I support the new grill design & expect it to look wicked in person.
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      01-12-2021, 08:58 PM   #7
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A conservative design like this would end up just like the M8 coupe... canceled in the US market
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I really like the removing of these stupid (ricey and cheap looking) black side skirts and blacked out portions on the rear. In addition, I would prefer the diffuser to be a bit more subtle.
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A conservative design like this would end up just like the M8 coupe... canceled in the US market
Exactly. Very boring design, no offense to the OP.

There should be a moratorium on renders lol....this ship has f**king sailed.
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      01-13-2021, 04:30 PM   #10
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A conservative design like this would end up just like the M8 coupe... canceled in the US market
Yup. This render and the M8 coupe are beautiful cars, but it seems BMW wanted to create tons of buzz with the polarizing styling of the real G8X.

And if that was the intent, it definitely worked.
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Exactly. Very boring design, no offense to the OP.

There should be a moratorium on renders lol....this ship has f**king sailed.
This^
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I agree this looks boring and the M3 shouldn't look like an 8 or be boring. However, there is a middle ground between boring and weird. That's where I wish the G8X would have landed.
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This^
The good news is this thread has little to no activity. If this was 4 months ago, it would have been on page 24 by now. Perhaps people are at the acceptance stage?
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I dig it and thinks it's an improvement. I think the renders give good feedback to the aftermarket on what grill-haters like myself think. If the performance metrics are there, bumper swaps should be relatively straight forward and expand the appeal of the car.
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A conservative design like this would end up just like the M8 coupe... canceled in the US market
wheres your proof the m8 was canceled strictly because of the design?
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Must be in the minority here. I love the work OP. Conservative but... A car I would actually be very interested in buying, vs... a car I have zero interest in buying (actual form).

I think the G80 is a flop design wise, meh.
Sure it's been talked about but, it remains. They could have done something different with it, something more cohesive.
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There should be a moratorium on renders lol....this ship has f**king sailed.
Absolutely. I wish people would stop with the renders already. Sure, I'd prefer if the grilles looked more like that, but they don't and they won't so I've accepted the new look.
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Absolutely. I wish people would stop with the renders already. Sure, I'd prefer if the grilles looked more like that, but they don't and they won't so I've accepted the new look.
Disagree, love design, so always open to people exploring that regardless of if the car is in production. Especially if people plan to mod the car aftermarket. Car was enough of a flop design wise, that I think it is still intriguing to look into other possibilities. Not for everyone I guess. I still find it interesting and like this one in particular.
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Disagree, love design, so always open to people exploring that regardless of if the car is in production. Especially if people plan to mod the car aftermarket. Car was enough of a flop design wise, that I think it is still intriguing to look into other possibilities. Not for everyone I guess. I still find it interesting and like this one in particular.
I think this design looks great and wish it was the actual design of the car, but it seems kind of pointless to me to keep seeing them and like them only to know that they are really never going to come to fruition except maybe in a very few cases.
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I think this design looks great and wish it was the actual design of the car, but it seems kind of pointless to me to keep seeing them and like them only to know that they are really never going to come to fruition except maybe in a very few cases.
Can see that angle. I would be very annoyed by that at work (work in product design). So I definitely get that.
I must be hanging on to some distant dream. Haha
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Can see that angle. I would be very annoyed by that at work (work in product design). So I definitely get that.
I must be hanging on to some distant dream. Haha
I swapped out the front bumper of my e92 some years ago. I'm glad I did it, but it was a huge hassle and I had to sell the old bumper and ship it via Greyhound bus since UPS said it was too large for them. I don't think I'd go through it all again and assume that likely 98% (maybe 99.8% even) of the car owners likely wouldn't either.

[look at those baby grilles!!]

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