[macfantn]

[Dakarʒ]

Is that a car or some pseudo-suv?

[analogika]

It's an inflatable scale model.

[cjrivera]

Is that the new X6?

[MacinTommy]

If I were to go German I would get an Audi.

[macfantn]

new x6 i love audis too, germans do make the sexiest cars, well maybe italians it's a close call.

[Sealobo]

BMW used to make beautiful cars. Now most of them are fugly.

[Naplander]

I dunno, that car looks pretty cool to me.

[Kenneth]

haha.. it looks like a computer mouse in the other way around. The side of it doesn't look that good, but sometimes it's hard to judge. Sometimes I feel like that cars don't look good in autoshows, but manage to get away with it on the streets.

Frankfurt 2007: BMW X6 revealed

[JonoMarshall]

All new cars are ugly, the beefy/speedy look's wearing real thin for me.

[richwig83]

I think the new 3 series look very nice!!! The 6 series is a disgrace.... making an ugly car bigger can only end in it looking even worse!!

I mean.... who designed the front end???

[MacosNerd]

I've always liked the way BMWs look like. Very sharp (and very expensive )

[Dakarʒ]

Originally Posted by MacosNerd 

I've always liked the way BMWs look like. Very sharp (and very expensive )

Not unlike many a katana.

[cjrivera]

I hate the look of the current 6-series.

The front of the X6 doesn't look too bad, though.

[turtle777]

I think the bigger news about the X6 is this:



-t

[Nivag]

If i'm going German i'm getting this!


[updated] Lamborghini Reventón revealed

[Dakarʒ]

Looks like something out of an 80s futuristic movie.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

Not unlike many a katana.

I looked for the white text but couldn't find any. Where's macgeek when we need him?

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by Nivag 

If i'm going German i'm getting this!


[updated] Lamborghini Reventón revealed

I've never liked the single centered exhaust tip.

[design219]

Originally Posted by MacinTommy 

If I were to go German I would get an Audi.

I'd like the concept car used in "I Robot."

[Dakarʒ]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

I looked for the white text but couldn't find any. Where's macgeek when we need him?

Editing his next masterpiece.
Here's your damned white text.

[mdc]

Originally Posted by design219 

I'd like the concept car used in "I Robot."
http://www.zone-sf.com/images/irobot3.jpg

Audi R8 is close

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by macfantn

BMW sure does make some beautiful cars

They do, but that one (in the OP) is not one of them. Ugliest Beamer ever. Ick.

MacinTommy’s Audi is pretty damn fine, though. Always liked them Audis (the A6s and A8s, anyway).

[design219]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

They do, but that one (in the OP) is not one of them. Ugliest Beamer ever.

I'm glad to hear someone else say that. I was thinking along the same lines.

[Kenneth]

I love how the 6-series look.

Since some NNers' mentioned the Audi, I think the Q7 looks like a big whale.

[macfantn]

i like the new A4 just announced today.

[richwig83]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

I've never liked the single centered exhaust tip.

What?? Even if its coupled up to a 6.5ltr V12???

I prefer centered, rather than 2 each side which everyone seems to be doin these days!

RE:Q7 The audi Q7 is a monstrosity.... but a beautiful one!

[Mediaman_12]

Originally Posted by Nivag 

If i'm going German i'm getting this!
[updated] Lamborghini Reventón revealed

Ugh! It looks like the designer pulled all his inspiration from that late 90's military 'Stealth' tec'

[abbaZaba]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

They do, but that one (in the OP) is not one of them. Ugliest Beamer ever. Ick.

MacinTommy’s Audi is pretty damn fine, though. Always liked them Audis (the A6s and A8s, anyway).

it's actually 'Bimmer'.

[Sealobo]

Originally Posted by Nivag 

If i'm going German i'm getting this!

You mean Italian!

[Andy8]

Originally Posted by Sealobo 

You mean Italian!

Lamborghini is now a subsidiary of Audi.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by abbaZaba 

it's actually 'Bimmer'.

No. It's actually "Beemer".

A = ay
B = be
~
M = em.

BMW. BM. Be Em. Beemer.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by abbaZaba 

it's actually 'Bimmer'.

I agree completely (Beamer or Beemer are not words, at all—Bimmer should properly used for both cars and MCs, and it should ideally be written BiM’er, not Bimmer, if you want to get really pedantic), for more geeky purposes; but in regular, non-closed slang, I’d use Beamer over Bimmer any day, since it’s the only one that’s in common use.

No. It's actually "Beemer".

A = ay
B = be
~
M = em.

BMW. BM. Be Em. Beemer.

Most BMW aficionados claim that Beemer/Beamer refers only to the (original) BMW motorcycles, while cars should be called Bimmers.

Unfortunately, they tend to supplant the history of the latter word with folk etymologies. Bimmer doesn’t come from just BM (as Beemer does), but from BiMW’er (the long [i:] of the spoken-out B being shortened due to the syllable being closed). The two terms are about the same age, but to some of us, Beemer/Beamer is the ‘less pure’ of the two, so to speak, since it was mainly coined to rhyme with Beeser (BSAs, which has an open syllable and no vowel-shortening). Like I said above, in regular speech, I wouldn’t really give a damn—I call them Beamers pretty consistently in English, ’cause that’s the name I hear the most. In Danish, however, I’m more of a pedant, and I call all BMWs, cars and motorcycles alike, Bimmers, never Beamers.

(P.S.: I’m not a BMW aficionado, just an etymology freak )

[jersey]

Diz-am ... Oisín beat me to it .....

[Laminar]

Oisín hath spoken, and it was good.

[Sealobo]

Originally Posted by Andy8 

Lamborghini is now a subsidiary of Audi.

So Bentley and Bugatti are also German now?!

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

Most BMW aficionados claim that Beemer/Beamer refers only to the (original) BMW motorcycles, while cars should be called Bimmers.

Unfortunately, they tend to supplant the history of the latter word with folk etymologies. Bimmer doesn’t come from just BM (as Beemer does), but from BiMW’er (the long [i:] of the spoken-out B being shortened due to the syllable being closed). The two terms are about the same age, but to some of us, Beemer/Beamer is the ‘less pure’ of the two, so to speak, since it was mainly coined to rhyme with Beeser (BSAs, which has an open syllable and no vowel-shortening). Like I said above, in regular speech, I wouldn’t really give a damn—I call them Beamers pretty consistently in English, ’cause that’s the name I hear the most. In Danish, however, I’m more of a pedant, and I call all BMWs, cars and motorcycles alike, Bimmers, never Beamers.

In local slang, "Bimmer" is a little... ...ummm... ...brutal. The way the word sounds just has something uncouth and negative about it.

Thus, locally (and I'm probably meaning the whole of England north of Watford) "Bimmer" tends to get used for any BMW product when you're talking negatively about it, while "Beemer" gets used when speaking positively.

Thus: "I like your Beemer, dude" or "this Bimmer is a rust bucket".

That's generally the way it works around here.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

In local slang, "Bimmer" is a little... ...ummm... ...brutal. The way the word sounds just has something uncouth and negative about it.

Thus, locally (and I'm probably meaning the whole of England north of Watford) "Bimmer" tends to get used for any BMW product when you're talking negatively about it, while "Beemer" gets used when speaking positively.

Thus: "I like your Beemer, dude" or "this Bimmer is a rust bucket".

That's generally the way it works around here.

That’s probably why Beamer is the one most often heard, too: people tend to be proud of their BMWs, so they wouldn’t call them the ‘bad’ name. Come to think of it, I’m not sure I’ve ever even heard a non-aficionado call a BMW a Bimmer in (UK) English... or maybe I have, and I just wasn’t paying much attention.

[Sealobo]

Stolen from a thread elsewhere...

[d4nth3m4n]

i kind of like this one. it and the 6 series are the best takes on bangle's flame styling or whatever he calls it.







i like how it appears to have a thin waist, kind of like an aston. who doesn't like feminine curves?

i still think it'd be pretty hot if they just dropped it to make a four door coupe like the cls or the upcoming rapide or panamera. probably screw up the packaging royally though.

[abbaZaba]

thanks for explaining Oisín so I didn't have to

[Timo]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

(P.S.: I’m not a BMW aficionado, just an etymology freak )

True dat

[angelmb]

Originally Posted by Nivag 

If i'm going German i'm getting this!
[updated] Lamborghini Reventón revealed

That is sure an unfortunate name… "Reventón" is spanish for blowout… and you know what a tyre blowout means… serious accident. Anyone from Bologna cared to explain why such a silly name?

[Sealobo]

Originally Posted by angelmb 

That is sure an unfortunate name… "Reventón" is spanish for blowout… and you know what a tyre blowout means… serious accident. Anyone from Bologna cared to explain why such a silly name?

The car is named after a bull that apparently killed a famous bullfighter in the old days. I read that from the press.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Sealobo 

The car is named after a bull that apparently killed a famous bullfighter in the old days. I read that from the press.

Sounds like a great ride.

[zerock]

i have an x3'06.. the x6 will probably be my next car.. love it

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by analogika 

Sounds like a great ride.

It'll be crap. German efficiency and precision has killed Lamborghini's soul.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Timo 

True dat

Hush, you!

[turtle777]

Nobody in Germany calls BMWs "Beemer", "Beamer" or "Bimmer".

JFYI.

-t

[IceEnclosure]

Unless one has driven a Murcielago, one probably couldn't hate on it too hard with much credibility.

I'd rather be going 180 MPH in a Audi-owned Lambo than 180 MPH in some philips-head-screwed-together-interior'd Countach.

Although the Countach is the one I'd have the girls doing coke in, cause it wipes right off the leather, whereas the modern lambo has the suede all over, making a mess.(i'd imagine)