World’s Best Luxury car!

It is lacking presence, something the S-class isn’t short of.

the grill looks huge and ugly like the CS’.

as much crap the current E65/E66 got when it came out (and adrian took a lot of **** and dealt with them well), so many other car companies followed the theme from it and did some pretty good designs. we’ll see how this 7 influences the rest in the future.

but then again, it’s interesting how that cs concept has a lot of american flavor in it… i wonder who’s influencing whom..?

The BMW CS is badass! I hope the new 7 series takes after it. In fact I hope both the next gen 5 and 7 Series come out are based on the styling of the CS concept! I also hope BMW brings back the 8 series.

That’s a really slick looking Accord!

Side Rant: Why do luxury automakers refuse to name their cars?

jackimturkey…you have no idea what your talking about….worlds best luxury car my ass…..the 7 series is such a faulty car mechanically..

The sooner BMW and the rest of these German slimeballs stop producing cheapass, unreliable junk, the better the world will become. Right now, the only carmaker that builds high quality, reliable, desirable luxury cars is Cadillac. And maybe even Buick if they break in to the 50 thousand dollar + club here in the next couple of years.

My point is we as Americans shouldn’t continue to fall for this flashy crap because it’s got a German nameplate. Especially when underneath it all, it’s got atrocious quality that will put you in the poor farm quickly. But we do. And unfortunately we Americans are still such slow learners. These folks need to experience a real car before falling into the pitfall that is this German trash. By American folks, it’s your duty and in the end you’ll be the winner.

From the side, it looks like a Volvo S80, but that could just be the camo stripes playing tricks on me. If they make the rear pretty conventional, then I think it’ll be a nice design. I’d like to see BMW get back to it’s pre-Banlged days. My E46 is still one of the better looking and most recognizable cars on the road…10 yrs after it’s intro. Can’t say that about a lot of other cars these days.

Grill looks like butt prints.

I dont know about this one, i loved the looks of the last version though, and BMW does make the WORLDS best looking and driving cars bar-none, and im a GM guy.

Need more oil for GM: Cadillac doesn’t have a full-size luxury car.

The big Lexus looks better than this. Pretty pathetic to say that.

i would have to disagree with you 400horseSS….the best looking cars are produced by Mercedes-Benz…i have a 750Li and that thing has gone to the shop about 15-16 times in the past year for random stuff that keeps messing up. I have an 05 S55 AMG as well and i think ive only taken it to the dealer 3 times and that was for only routine servicing .

Will those swirls be an option on the production model?

Cadillac & Buick you gotta be kidding me “oil for gm” both brands are thug-mobiles! not to mention pigs

Pretty accurate, Mayer. Except for the pathetic part.
BMW needs to move the Eath with this, and I’m snug in a rocking chair.
But the 1-series balances it out.
DrFill

It’s funny how a lot of these will end up in the hands of drug dealers when I’m sure anything else with nostrils that big wouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the coke.

Gotta way in here, Cadillacs used to be pimp mobiles. I see more “thugs” in RR, Bentleys, 300C’s, Mercedes S-class, and yes BMW 7 series, get real. Anything perceived as “prestige” is going to have “thug” types, pimps, drug dealers, etc driving them. I bet MB and BMW are taking the resurgent GM products more seriously than you guys. If they’re smart? The Euro-clowns will never have it so easy again.

I think it’s kind of odd that they didn’t implement a dual-clutch transmission by now…come on, BMW! At least they appear to be improving the iDrive, which is a welcome change by almost everyone.

I loved the Balgle ‘flame surfacing’ cars they were brilliant. And before we start ripping into th luks of this car, lets not forget we can’t really see the true form of it!

Sorry thats BANGLE not BALGLE

ratty_672, I like the flame surfacing too, it’s different. A shame that the automotive media bashes them continually over it though. Sometimes they fail to realize that liking the style of a car is purely a matter of opinion, regardless of whose it is.

I think Bangle lost it completely. I see a lot of influence from Audi (honker of grill) and Chrysler from 60’s (creases along the body of the car). From what I can see none of it ties nicely. Granted, we can’t see the form behind camo, but considering his screwup with Z4, especially after Z3, series 5, 6 & 7 I think he shold stay in his gay closet and didn’t venture out. Then again - he may be totally straight since he has no taste whatsoever.

Golf, same here, I thought it looked like an S80 for sure. Talk about reigning in the design, wow. It went from thinking totally outside the box, and in fact, inventing (as much as any car designer ever “invents” anything new) a style that others have copied, at least copied parts of, to this thing. But I’ll have to wait to see it, but it looks fairly standard to me so far. As an architect, I think this looks like a strip mall of a car compared to a cutting-edge European building-as-machine like the previous generation did. This one won’t make the headlines as much, and making the headlines, good or bad, is what it’s about.

Rodd (jjt): Wrong. The 7 series has been plagued with electrical design problems that it almost killed a woman who got trapped inside. It also has a myriad of weird problems. One of the higher ups in BMW actually admitted to me that the E Class is a better buy than the 7 series. The only thing I give credit for is for its sharp and nimble handling. The S Class also has minor but annoying problems but not to the degree of the 7 series.

It must be it! No wonder we always saw Fuhrer in large Benz or Meibach and never in BMW with electrical problems!

i frankly don’t understand why people think the i drive system is soo hard to use…its not that difficult i picked it up in 10 min….

Great Interior pictures! Wow LLN is the best website ww!

Looks luxus interior, besides the comfort saloon seat that are visible - GREAT JOS LLN!

It looks nice IMO and i agree JJT that this is the worlds best luxury car, bar the Phantom

From what I can see the new 7 series looks much better than the current version. I hope that the square tailpipes get reshaped. I don’t understand what is going on lately in terms of these gigantic grills. They are all hideous. While I do like this new 7 better, it looks to bland. It’s too bad the CS design hasn’t been applied to the 7 and if it has, I can’t see it.

You still haven’t figured it out have you, dumbass!

BMWs, and especially the lame-ass 7 series…SUCK!
They are boring crap mobiles without the slightest hint of automotive passion.
The only reason people buy them is to try and show off their income.
If you want a very cool large luxury sedan then bypass than teutonic junk and get a Maserati Qporte. If that is too steep for you then get a Jaguar XJ…the best deal in luxo cars today. I could even see getting a new Caddy before a BMW.
German cars have become trite.
BTW: prophylactic insult—> if anyone disagrees with me then you are obviously an ignorant know-nothing pimple-faced punk.
Period.

it looks good for once in its history.

Looks like the A8 dash. Not a bad thing.

Looks uglier and cheaper to me every time I see it.

Smooth & clean I like it I like that they put the shift lever back where it belongs
That level is funny bc its electronic and you have move it fwd for reverse
I think with this 7 Series they calmed the outlandish styling down which is a good thing
BMW’s are trendsetters but sometimes they go too far and the last 7 series, while a great seller was evidence of that

They do the worst job of integrating their LCD screens of anybody, not sure what’s so hard about making it look like it belongs there. Otherwise, not too bad. Gauges look like Lexus’ wish they’d stay conventional, once agian getting away from their roots…

I-Drive bad. Flame surface controversial. Shift lever strange. Repeating everything you read in a article, priceless.
1115: Thanks for the laughs.

That wood on the dash looks like the old Country Squire Wagon we had back in the day.

That interior is ugly, especially for what the car costs. I didn’t like the old 7-series interior, and this new one isn’t any better.

It’s almost like all the bad interior designers from GM’s studios in the 1980’s and 1990’s left GM to go work at BMW.

I’ll be sticking with the car I’ve been wanting: Audi S6. Maybe in the next year or so.

Very Average. hunter you are a sychophant and very wrong

Looks like the dash out of any other dark interior BMW. Big deal.

Agree…dash looks too much like 1960’s Mercedes, ugly chrome and wood…no style.

I would love to read the comments if Cadillac were to put such a ****ty, 1970’s outdated interior in one of their new models.

How much money do they get for this ugly unreliable thing?

It has a BMW badge on it… so most people will praise it. However, had it a domestic badge there would be an entire page of insults. The interior shot of the Invicta was a thousand times more handsome and we all saw which little douche bags had negative things to say about it…. they just keep digging their own holes deeper and deeper, yet amazingly they think their opinions are worth a damn… too funny.

As the last four, I’ll add the fifth … this interior is laughable. It is horrid. It is beyond pathetic. It is an embarassment. What is old is old again. No level of performance, chick magnetism, or anything will EVER appeal to me if THAT interior accompanies the vehicle. Seriously, it looks like ****, CRAP, POO, FECES from many decades ago. Should have left it there.

Cadillac just started putting decent interiors in their cars I love how people are so eager for GM to makeit that they forget every POS they made and all the recalls that injured people due to shoddy craftmanship

Decent means just cutting it by the way

At least the shifter has moved back to where it belongs. I’m still not sold on the whole electric shift lever thing, though.

not bad, but it’s no Town car

… B oring
… M omma’s
… W agon

I’m really looking forward to this car…the S-Class is currently my favorite full size luxury car, but I’d prefer the 7-Series take that place being a more sporty car in general. Just make up the current faults.

Wonder if the rumors of 4 wheel steering are true

Same old interior? Probably not but looks as boring as the old.

If you want comfort buy Lexus 460
If you want badass buy Audi S8
If you want luxury buy Jag XJ or VW Phaeton
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But if you want everything in one car buy Mercedes S63
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BMW tries to be everything but completely fails.

Personally I would take a 7 series over an S8 from Audi.

this only proves you havent driven any of them.

If you wanna believe that, personally I think the Mercedes Benz is in first, then the BMW 7 series, then the Audi A8.

If BMW does 4 wheel steering, Lexus will do 5 wheel steering.

Shaver, do you even know what 4 wheel steering is? (I know full well you could be joking, but it makes no sense).

It makes no sense to a stupid write-off like you, loser … it was a joke.

Impulsive, never did read my full post I said I know full well it could be a joke.

“but it makes no sense” … do some research, fool … some jokes are comprised of hyperbole. Kill yourself.