Comments on: BMW readying eco-friendly supercar

By: ozyran

ozyran — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:52:43 +0000

Well, BMW reports that the new supercar will manage fuel economy equivalent to their 5-series midsized sedans.

Their best economy figures report 18 city and 28 highway.

The Corvette Z06 manages 15 city and 24 highway.

Even the ZR1 manages 22 mpg on the highway!

BMW HAS NOT managed to design a fuel-efficient supercar. This thing is a late ’80s/early ’90s styling joke, leaves much to be desired on the lines of so-called “green fuel economy” and is sadly lacking in power. If this thing is a green supercar then my Dodge Dakota 5.9 R/T is a fuel-sipping truck.

If you want a real “green supercar” go get a Tesla. BMW, you need to go back to the drawing board with this one.

By: GTRDONE

GTRDONE — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:45:34 +0000

@lau
how can you have an eco-friendly supercar that sneakily consumes very little gasoline while still meeting all the requirements of Z06ified’s description of a real supercar. namely “consuming vast quantities of gasoline”..?

By: Bmacc

Bmacc — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:00:43 +0000

Argh don’t make the nsx mistake and put a six in a supercar! I know its an I6 but seriously if BMW wants to compete with other supercars they’re going to have to do better than that. Yes, porsches make do with sixes but the true porsche supercar the Carrera GT used a v10.

By: dmlgc

dmlgc — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:23:35 +0000

Green sports car , what are you nuts BMW. Sports cars are about performance , and handling, make some other model green. The ford pinto-cobra-mustang was a green sports car but no one wanted to be caught dead in it and even people in VW’s laughed at you at the stop light.

I’m all for green but I bought my tt8 X6 because it goes fast, ridiculously so for a car that weighs that much. If you have to make a green car use the X3, you can feel good and folks that want a green BMW will buy it.

By: Lau

Lau — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:53:05 +0000

^Z06, what if you weren’t told this was an eco-freindly supercar and it managed to do all that whilst sneakily consuming very little gasoline?

By: Z06ified

Z06ified — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:35:36 +0000

I have absolutely ZERO interest in an eco-friendly supercar. I want a supercar that consumes vast quantities of gasoline (or diesel), wakes the dead with exhaust roar, scares the paint off of Priuses, spits fire from the exhaust, pins your head back with the force of a jet, and just kicks ass.

By: e46Ne90

e46Ne90 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:40:00 +0000

im sure horsepower will be somewhere around 500+ since this will be flagship of the performance vehicle for bmw, hence it will have to beat m5/m6 power. it will be easy task to pump out 500+ from inline-6 TT

By: atoms

atoms — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:48:18 +0000

i know that the original m1’s had I6’s but will a modern BMW supercar be accepted with an I6tt even with the power up to maybe 450hp that section is covered by their V8tt with a bit more torque from the bigger displacement and the charging, then again porsche gets gobs of torque and power out of their flat 6’s

By: A4

A4 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:40:50 +0000

ummm actually BMW has the stop-start feature available on every one of their cars in europe, and i do believe regenerative braking is available to some extent as well

By: Lau

Lau — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:28:02 +0000

If this thing will be like anything LLN has reported, I’m looking forward to it. I mean, BMW F1 technology? Sounds good to me, especially if it saves the planet and doesn’t cause the atmosphere to rip and cause the sun’s rays to have a microwave effect on Earth and melting the Golden Gate bridge…

Sorry, Discovery channel documentary ^_^

By: Impulsive

Impulsive — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:09:17 +0000

‘johnny’, yup.

By: qpt_dude

qpt_dude — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:10:56 +0000

That rendering looks like a widebody M5, and I like it. But it has nothing to do at all with keeping the M1 heritage intended.

If they’re going out with one last hurrah at a supercar, it should deserve something much better than a V6. It should be the V10 from the M6. If they’re going eco-friendly, then why have they kept their V8’s and V10’s in their higher model range? A range-topping flagship should have better performance then its next-in-line car. But I wouldn’t mind green tech to make this car more of a daily driver.

Its going to compete with the R8 and SLC? I don’t see that happening, because those two are in different market segments. And I thought BMW crushed any ideas of an M1 successor months ago?

By: tyler_is_aero_tt

tyler_is_aero_tt — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:56:19 +0000

Idk but that concept they came out a while ago looks like a nightmare from the 90’s. This would look so b.a. if they did something like this: http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/8853/smalllllxi8.jpg

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:43:29 +0000

If they make that thing in the picture it will undoubtedly be the greenest supercar on the planet because it’s so f*cking ugly no one will buy it.

By: 928dreamer

928dreamer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:38:29 +0000

Looking forward to the car regardless. I would rather be reading about this than more doom and gloom economic forcasts about layoffs and plants being idle and profits being down. Go BMW and Ferrari, keep making kick @ss sports cars with new green tech so I can have something fun to escape to.

I have enough stress and worry in real life to keep being reminded of it while I am trying to enjoy my hobby.

By: angryone

angryone — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:38:24 +0000

Oh, sorry. You’re right, I6. I got too angry and lost my head.

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:17:04 +0000

And ummm, angryone…BMW does not make V6 engines.

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:15:51 +0000

Superyawn. How about something relevant like a 120si with all the efficient dynamics wizardry.

By: angryone

angryone — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:03:16 +0000

Why the v6tt?

I don’t see how effective claiming “we make do with fewer cylinders than the comptetition” is much of a marketing strategy. Sports cars are generally for the power or attention hungry, and that segment rarely thinks much about their carbon footprint.

Claiming “I’m greener than the other egomaniac” is small consolation for getting demolished at the track or between stoplights by the other testosterone-addled prick with the faster car.

For the power levels they’ll need to stay on top of the segment, they already have a v8tt in the x6.