The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este has been an ideal place to see basic and classic vehicles in Italy. And BMW has a behavior of creating it a birthplace for its Hommage ideas. Not that we’re complaining – these idea vehicles have been cool and rad, plus we all know you’d forgive us if we wished that they reached manufacturing sometime, or not less than a re-do of the classics.
Should you’re with us on this notion, nicely, ready to be dissatisfied. BMW Group design boss Adrian van Hooydonk has confirmed with Prime Gear that the corporate will not remake the classics, and even the Hommage vehicles we have been raving about.
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BMW does, nevertheless, have a look at its catalog over the previous 10 years – to not verify what it may well remake however to derive concepts to make use of in manufacturing vehicles. Even the Hommage ideas aren’t solely re-dos, however extra of a reimagination of the classics, such because the M1 Hommage (see lead picture), 3.0 CSL Hommage, and the 2002 Hommage.
However that is to not say that the corporate wasn’t tempted to provide in to public requests. The workforce simply “by no means went full bore alongside that path,” mentioned van Hooydonk.
As for retro design making its means in manufacturing automobiles, van Hooydonk has a powerful disposition once more that. He believes that using retro design works for manufacturers that misplaced their means – selecting up from the place they have been profitable and taking it from there. That transfer is parallel to what Renault did with the return of the Renault 5. Whereas that would work for the French marque, BMW is assured in its present path.
“We really feel we must always proceed the fireplace, versus worshipping the ashes, if what I imply,” van Hooydonk.
