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Originally Posted by Game
Maybe if BMW sees this render enough they'll give us what we want. This thing looks awesome.
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That ship has sailed.
A new car design is usually signed off long time in advance. Registering a new car is a time-consuming process of steps, nationally and internationally. And if someone on the face of the earth who gets access to confidential documents abuses his/her professional duties and leaks confidential information, then pictures of reverse-engineered stuff (often of questionable quality and disregarding required safety standards) based off leaked info can surface someday. Quite frustrating for car manufacturers that way too often their confidential info gets into the hands of the counterfeit and replica industry even before official release of a new car.
Only minor design tweaks are still possible. Trivia fun fact about the E82 1M: the 1M was initially supposed to get halogen headlights as standard equipment, rather than the more expensive Xenon headlights. Reason: BMW M intended to launch the 1M onto the German market in 2011 for less than €50K (entry level BMW M car). However, the 1M featuring halogen headlights is told to have failed the TüV certification test. Reason for the failure was fully 1M design related: parking lights of the halogen headlights were physically positioned too much inwards because of the 1M 'wide fenders' design (wider than the stock E82 1-Series fenders). And so BMW quickly switched to plan B for homologation purposes: exit halogen headlights / enter Xenon headlights as standard equipment on every 1M worldwide (the parking lights are positioned more external because of the 'angel eyes' design). But this change pushed the base price of the 1M right over the psychological €50K barrier on the German market.
