BMW X6 Concept & X6 Active Hybrid Concept (official pics & info) - Page 25

RikfromBelgium

it's the same car, plate moves when you switch from hybrid to engine mode or the other way.

martinbo

It's the same car; the retractable panel covers the exhausts when the car is operating in electrically powered mode and opens to reveal the exhaust outlets when you unleash the dogs of war.

siko

Please note that all videos from this thread were moved here:

(BMW Concept X6 Video Gallery)BMW Concept X6 Video Gallery

Some new videos were also added!

bmer

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Originally Posted by Anisc

do we have any sneak peeks of the interior ? I know its a concept and they would not be showing it around...but any chance someone's had a look at it ?

From the spypic thread (3):
This is a spy pic of what is propably the production version:

Maserati

I want the double side vents to go (ala X5)... thats awful ..

SDNR

Once again BMW have shown how it is done. This Concept is so well resolved it could go into production.

I can see a clear link with the CS Concept -- which is good.

Bangle's raw ideas have taken a while to be refined ...but the recent results are all extremely exciting. There is a maturity in this design. All the ideas of flame-surfacing and irregularity have been fully resolved ....and now we are seeing the results of a design team which knows exactly what it is trying to achieve. There is deliberation, methodology, and ideology behind these designs -- something their main competitors are still struggling with a little.

hu§eindesign

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Originally Posted by Rob

Bangle's raw ideas have taken a while to be refined ...but the recent results are all extremely exciting. There is a maturity in this design. All the ideas of flame-surfacing and irregularity have been fully resolved ....and now we are seeing the results of a design team which knows exactly what it is trying to achieve. There is deliberation, methodology, and ideology behind these designs -- something their main competitors are still struggling with a little.

That's exactly how I see it too. Though I really still don't know whether it's right to credit Bangle for BMW's design language.
Bangle had a theory, A vision and that's to shock, to provoke and to present product with "critical" appearence in order to keep the cars as intersting as possible for as long as possible.
But how this theory eventually became metal that you can touch, is what two other designers, who created the two concept cars that defined the successful look of BMW: Adrian van Hooydonk with his Z9 and Chris Chapman with his X-Coupé.
Chris Bangle gets all the press, but these two guys need to be credited as much as he was

shonguiz

This is what pisses me off every time i read the press: Bangle draw the...., Dasilva who designed the...., J.mays designed...., Luc donkerwolke designed...while none of them designed the cars.

Centurion

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Originally Posted by shonguiz

This is what pisses me off every time i read the press: Bangle draw the...., Dasilva who designed the...., J.mays designed...., Luc donkerwolke designed...while none of them designed the cars.

But they direct, instruct and are in charge of the designs. That makes it fair to point the finger at them.

hu§eindesign

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Originally Posted by Luwalira

But they direct, instruct and are in charge of the designs. That makes it fair to point the finger at them.

Sure it is, but not to say that they designed the cars. Bangle for example didn't design a single car for BMW.
I didn't say that he shouldn't be credited. Of course he should, but not for things he didn't do.
Anyway BMW is changing their policy in that field. They now always present the car an its designers. We now know who designed any of their new models/concepts.