De twee zijn eigenlijk geen onbekende meer, maar een met extra spoilers op basis van de M4, de GTS en de andere in M-kleuren gespoten: De hommage aan de raceversie van de E9 3,0CSL
M4 GTS Concept:
Persbericht M4 GTS Concept BMW
BMWBlog schreef:The Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach is one of the most exclusive and exciting automotive events in the world. People from all over the globe …
The Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach is one of the most exclusive and exciting automotive events in the world. People from all over the globe travel to see some of the magnificent automobiles on the planet. All of the high-end automakers show off their highest performing and most luxurious cars they have. It’s an incredible event.
BMW is making a bit of a splash at this year’s show, with the BMW Concept M4 GTS.
The M4 GTS is the pinnacle of BMW performance. It’s the ultimate expression of BMW’s racing technology for use on the road. What BMW does to make the M4 GTS is take a standard M4 and fit it with more aerodynamics, more power, stiffer suspension and all of its most impressive racing technology. This year’s M4 GTS is no different and could be the most exciting of all.
Despite the M4 GTS’ racing pedigree, it’s very much a legal road car. The purpose of the GTS is to enable owners to drive it to the race track, do as many laps as desired and then drive it home again. It’s basically a street legal race car.
The M4 Concept GTS certainly looks the part, with its extremely aggressive aerodynamics, manually adjustable exposed carbon fiber front splitter and rear wing, Frozen Dark Grey Metallic paint and Acid Orange accents and wheels. It also has an exposed carbon fiber rear diffuser, which looks excellent housing the quad exhaust pipes.
Some of the M4 GTS’ new technologies include the water-injection system and OLED taillights. The water-injection system was first used on BMW’s M4 MotoGP safety car and is used in many race cars today. What the system does is inject ultra-fine water spray into the plenums of the intake. The water is then vaporized, which cools the intake air dramatically, thus reducing the compression temperature in the combustion chamber. This not only reduces the engine’s tendency to knock, but allows higher boost pressure and earlier ignition timing, giving the M4 GTS a noticeable horsepower and torque bump.
The engineers at BMW’s M Division have also developed a highly-innovative cooling system, comprised of a main radiator with additional radiators for both high and low-temperature circuits, the transmission and turbochargers. The turbochargers are cooled by way of an indirect intercooler assisted by an electrically-driven water pump.
OLED taillights also make their way to the BMW Concept M4 GTS. OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) produce full-surface homogenous illumination, as opposed to a standard LEDs single-point light emission. Their compact design and ability to light individual light modules separately gives BMW an extra level of flexibility in creating taillights.
All in all, the BMW Concept M4 GTS is an outstanding looking machine that will deliver exceptional performance, both on the road and on the track. The water-injection system and OLED taillights give it genuine racing technology to be used on the road. So if you’re a lucky owner of one of these, very limited, M4 GTS’, you can truthfully say that you own a race car for the street.
BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage R
Persbericht BMW 3,0CSL Hommage R, BMW
BMWBlog schreef: BMW recently debuted its 3.0 CSL Hommage Concept, a bright yellow throwback to the 3.0 CSL racer than won Sebring back in 1975 with Brian …
BMW recently debuted its 3.0 CSL Hommage Concept, a bright yellow throwback to the 3.0 CSL racer than won Sebring back in 1975 with Brian Redman at the helm. This Concept was polarizing, garnering an extraordinary amount of attention, both good and bad. Regardless of how anyone felt about it, though, no one could stop looking at it. Well, for the Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach, BMW decided to create a new one — the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage R.
Instead of the neon yellow color that adorned the original CSL Hommage, the Hommage R comes with the same racing livery as Redman’s 1975 race car. Awhile back, we spoke about how the CSL Hommage would have looked better had it been painted in this white racing livery, instead of the bright yellow that it was, and we were right.
This Hommage R looks absolutely gorgeous. There’s no doubt that the front end styling of the CSL Hommage was a bit odd looking and not as beautiful as one might have hoped. But when dressed up like the original race car, it looks purposeful and aggressive and absolutely fantastic, as does the rest of the car.
The Future Of Racing Cabins
The interior seems to be where BMW spent most of its development time, however. While the exterior is polarizing, with its extreme styling, the interior is simplistic and utilitarian. Designed specifically to aid a racing driver wearing a full racing suit and helmet, the CSL Hommage R’s interior is sculpted around the driver’s seat.
With minimalistic gauges immediately within the driver’s line-of-sight, the driver is allowed to focus on racing without ever having to avert their eyes. The helmet visor also features a heads-up display to give the driver all the necessary information, such as speed, selected gear and engine rpm. It’s like being Iron Man.
The dashboard is also in keeping with this minimalist approach, being a solid piece of unobstructed wood. However, the wood has small light inserts built into it, which display the Laguna Seca racetrack and its braking points. The carbon fiber shell seats have also been specifically sculpted to fit the driver while wearing a full racing suit and helmet and allow the driver to stay firmly put, without moving about during hard cornering.
While the exterior of the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage R stays the same as the first Hommage, aside from the racing livery, it’s the interior that has made the most difference.
The Hommage R is designed to be the spiritual successor to the 3.0 CSL racer from 1975 and it’s just as purpose built for racing as that car was. With its minimalist interior, whose only creature comforts are two air vents on either side of the steering wheel which pipe in fresh outside ambient air, is about as real-deal race car as it gets.
With a high-tech racing suit and helmet to go along with the race car-inspired cockpit, the 3.0 CSL Hommage R is a track-ready weapon.
Combine that with its incredible throwback racing livery and this might be one of the best BMW concept cars of all time.
