Comments on: BMW Gran Coupe approved for production

By: Dining Kitchen Set

Dining Kitchen Set — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:58:00 +0000

woww what a car i want to bye this but where??????

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By: Kenee

Kenee — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:16:24 +0000

Good to see the 5 GT in the coming new 6 series.

By: Pandamalone

Pandamalone — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:43:55 +0000

It is you who keeps demonstrating the ignorance and arrogance. Why don’t you just go get a life instead of staying here being looked down time to time? Or you just so enjoy such feeling? If so I suggest u go see a psych doctor.

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By: Sascha Christ

Sascha Christ — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:03:13 +0000

Acctually they are doing a M version. so there will be a bmw m6 gran coupe! uhh that sounds sweet :-) they say its going to have more than 500hp but i dont know exaclty how much…

By: n8n

n8n — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:41:44 +0000

Magnificiant ;)))))))))))) I love this car already!!!
Non of the japan cars will be such beautiful and awesome as BMW!! :)

By: wazon8

wazon8 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:12:49 +0000

Sorry, guys but BMW’s success is the best counterexample to the theory of supercar working on image. They hasn’t had a supercar for a 30 years and became in that time the biggest luxury car sellers and they did despite the fact that MB had better initial image as luxury car maker and released McLaren SLR. Why is that if having supercar is so important? Similarly, Lexus deosn’t have a supercar and still is bigger luxury cars sellers in U.S. than Audi. Why is that? And finally, why despite having supercar Audi’s cars above 50k $ sell as shit in U.S.? In this segment they don’t even get close to BMW in pretty long period. Nissan made semi-supercar and its image didn’t profit much from it. Your theory simply generates wrong prediction and my point is that car maker can work successfully on its image without supercar. BMW is the best example.

You can read your textbooks to marketing strategy, but damn they all base on some hypothesis some of which simply don’t work. Social science are not physics (where numbers of successful hypothesis turned out not to be true eighter). And you recomend me to think in framework of theory that doesn’t work. Who is fool then? It’s very similar story as imagine improvement from being involved in F1. Brands that were luxury stayed luxury, those that didn’t stayed where they were. What are profits for Toyota, Renault and so on for their being in F1? Barely neither. All opinions about these brands stayed the same. Nobody claims that Toyota or Renault have outstanding technology in their cars despite being in F1. Even advertisement from Renault reffering to their success in F1 didn’t generate expected increase. One again, image is buildt upon another things than supercars and other kind of successes unrelated to what is in cars.

FreudeKing, where did you read something about functionality from me?! Caring about what is in car deosn’t amount to

By: FreudeKing

FreudeKing — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:48:00 +0000

Sorry to let you know this but I buy BMWs because I feel that the brand and what it stands for most suits my personality. I also hate to burst your bubble but we are talking about premium cars here, people buy cars because they like the brand, not becasue of some functionality or whatever you are suggesting, which only works for the sub-premium market. Do you even drive a car in the premium market because it doesn’t seem like it.

You clearly also do not have any marketing or commerce background as you have no idea what a brand is.

Why am I even wasting my time here??? You clearly don’t know what you are talking about.

By: BimmerFan

BimmerFan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:29:33 +0000

wazon 8, what are you on about?you clearly don’t know anything about brand image and the building of one. of course the buyers of the 3, 5, 6 and whatever product care about brand image and having a supercar helps a brand, especially a brand that is built on its sportiness like BMW. you are so ignorant that you don’t know that most customers buying bmw buy it because it has a good brand image??? you seriously need to stop making a fool of yourself and get educated. i think the vw and totyota customers like yourself wouldn’t care whether vw / jap cars have supercars.

just for the record, you clearly also have no idea of the developemnt of the premium sector of the auto market. bmw, although still first is losing market share to audi and mb. this to me is a clear sign of a slip.

By: wazon8

wazon8 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:03:30 +0000

Well, it’s exiciting exactly because it bases on coupe!

By: wazon8

wazon8 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:01:23 +0000

It’s not a supercar, but it’s great and powerful coupe and has everything that such kind of car needs. And it has a soul of huge powerful coupe. I don’t know why you believe that supercars attract customers. If that was the case, BMW wouldn’t be the biggest seller of premium cars. They are, despite the fact that they don’t have supercar for 30 years and despite that their main rivals have a supercars in offer. Which buyer of cars in 3-er segment, 5-er or 6-er care about whether there is supercar in line up? I really wonder whether you’ve ever spent any singnificant amount of money on car. When I go for a car costing close to 40k euro, what I care about is what I will get for my money and supercar being in line up is not a part of it. If you think that having supercar changes customer’s perception of a given brand, you’re badly wrong. It doesn’t. If it did, BMW should be losing to MB and to Audi right now. The lesson: when it comes to spend real money on car, customers care about features of given product that they are supposed to buy, not about some unrelated thing.

BTW, the fact that based on 3-er BMW is doing great in Le Mans and Nurburgring 24H Race is much more attractive for a potential buyer of BMW’s sedans than supercar. At the end of a day, their sedan base construction dealed with supercars.

By: viper

viper — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:14:40 +0000

you dont know what ur blabling about.
oh according to you Im an old man. stupid.

By: tweer

tweer — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:48:08 +0000

Beautiful car, if I ever decide to go that huge I’ll be having one, if the new 6 series looks like that, I’ll be dropping my X :D

By: Vaybach Khan

Vaybach Khan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:23:32 +0000

yes i saw a7 pic and its passat cc like…..if 6 series is to you normal ordinary car then yo drive enzo probably…but for me to have 4 door coupe is the ultimate concept,and if it is the ultimate driving machine then its a real dream…

By: FreudeKing

FreudeKing — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:21:29 +0000

If they are going to take that long to make it, then I am afriad to say that they will probably tone it so down that it will look like a normal, ordinary car like the current 6 series with 4 doors. Would you be excited about that?

I do hope that they will see what Audi is coming up with on 26th with their A7 and make relevant changes so that this car will exceed what Audi bring to the market at the end of this year, as they will have 2 years to do whatever changes they need to do.

By: FreudeKing

FreudeKing — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:18:52 +0000

If I say it lacks soul, it lacks soul purely because of the its inferiority of a certain future and an established past like the M3 and M5. It is also not a product that is so outstanding and attention grabing as the likes of an R8, which would give it instant publicity and word of mouth advertising.

So unfortunately the M6 is short from being something remarkable. To simply put it for you: it is not a product that is the reason why people like the BMW brand, unlike the R8.

By: wazon8

wazon8 — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:09:40 +0000

What’s wrong with you? Why does powerful coupe lack soul? And yes, its design was outstanding. Do you remember what coupes were sold in 2005?