{"title":"BMW Models","description":"\u003cp\u003eBMW in scale: the Mille Miglia and GINA concepts, the Art Cars and the M3 GTR, at 1:18.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bmw-mille-miglia-concept-pale-champagne-1-18","title":"BMW Mille Miglia Concept, Pale Champagne Metallic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe BMW 328 changed what a small sports car could do. Launched in 1936 with a 2-litre straight-six of 80 PS and weighing around 830 kg in roadster form, it won on its first outing, the Eifelrennen at the Nürburgring in June 1936 with Ernst Henne at the wheel, and went on to more than 200 victories into the 1950s. Only 464 were built before production ended in 1940. A 328 won its class at the 1938 Mille Miglia, and two years later the Touring-bodied coupé won the race outright. BMW's 2006 Mille Miglia Concept, a one-off on Z4 M Coupé running gear, was built to honour that car, its own 3.2-litre straight-six carrying the 328's six-cylinder line forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece wears a pale champagne metallic, cooler than gold, sitting between pale gold and warm silver depending on the light. The cabin is light grey, with ribbed seats and black harness straps, a pale steering wheel and a silver dashboard and console with a roll cage behind. The gills behind the front wheels carry pale inserts, and the colour is set off by the dark mesh of the kidney grille, the frosted round headlamps and the red lamp strip that crosses the tail. Built at 1:18, it is mounted on a grey stitched base; its black plaque bears the BMW roundel and reads 'Limited', one of 7.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SE7EN Models","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67682715140309,"sku":"TAH-13096","price":3670.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13096-01.jpg?v=1791409225"},{"product_id":"bmw-m-hybrid-v8-art-car-julie-mehretu-art-car-1-18","title":"BMW M Hybrid V8, Julie Mehretu Art Car","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe BMW M Hybrid V8 is the 20th BMW Art Car, painted by Julie Mehretu and unveiled on 21 May 2024 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Mehretu started from the colours and forms of her painting Everywhen (2021 to 2023); the design is built from digitally altered photographs, layered with dot grids, neon veils of colour and her black marks. Before it raced, the car was shown at the Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este on Lake Como. BMW then entered it at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on 15 June 2024 as number 20, for Sheldon van der Linde, Robin Frijns and René Rast, the first BMW M Motorsport prototype at Le Mans since the V12 LMR that won in 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is reproduced across the whole prototype, from the split kidney nose to the tall fin and the rear wing endplates. The number 20 sits in white on red panels on the flanks beside the HYPERCAR badge, with the FIA and WEC logos nearby, and the black wheels wear Michelin tyres with blue bands. At the rear, thin red light strips frame the open diffuser. The black base has the car's name printed along its edge: Art Car Julie Mehretu, BMW M Hybrid V8, 2024. It is built at 1:18.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Automotive House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67683292578005,"sku":"TAH-12730","price":3300.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-12730-02_52febf28-5b04-4fff-b26f-7f60401aab87.jpg?v=1791400617"},{"product_id":"bmw-mille-miglia-concept-teal-1-18","title":"BMW Mille Miglia Concept, Teal Metallic","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 28 April 1940 the Mille Miglia was run not over open roads but around a closed triangle linking Brescia, Cremona and Mantua, lapped nine times. BMW's streamlined 328 Touring Coupé, shared by Fritz Huschke von Hanstein and Walter Bäumer, won it outright at an average of 166.7 km\/h, a record no Mille Miglia winner has matched since, finishing a quarter of an hour clear of the second-placed Alfa Romeo. Sixty-six years later BMW answered that car with the Mille Miglia Concept, a one-off coupé built on the running gear of the Z4 M Coupé. The quotation is plain: the long bonnet, the divided windscreen, the cabin set low between swelling wings, and rear wheels hidden entirely behind spats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is finished in a deep teal metallic, petrol blue on the wings and greener in the hollows. It is paired with an orange-tan cabin, and a slip of the same orange lines the gills behind the front wheels. Through the split windscreen sit a silver-finished dashboard with two dials, ribbed seats crossed by black harness straps and a full roll cage; outside, frosted round lamps flank the tall kidney grille and a red lamp strip cuts across the tail on the diagonal. Built at 1:18, it rests on a grey stitched base whose black plaque carries the BMW roundel and reads 'Limited', one of 7.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SE7EN Models","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67684364648661,"sku":"TAH-13081","price":3670.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13081-01.jpg?v=1791409089"},{"product_id":"bmw-mille-miglia-concept-silver-1-18","title":"BMW Mille Miglia Concept, Silver Metallic","description":"\u003cp\u003eBMW built the Concept Coupé Mille Miglia 2006 as a single running car and brought it to the start and finish of the Mille Miglia in Brescia in May 2006, a tribute to the 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé that had won the race outright in 1940. Where Touring of Milan had stretched an aluminium skin over a tubular frame, the new car's entire body was carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, set over the drivetrain of the Z4 M Coupé and its 3.2-litre straight-six. BMW painted it fine silver, a full-gloss colour with extremely fine pigments. The company was clear that it was neither a replica of the racer nor a preview of a production model.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilver, then, is the colour in which the concept was shown, and this example wears a silver metallic over a cognac tan cabin, close in tone to the natural cowhide BMW used inside the real car. It belongs to a different run from the coloured pieces: its plaque is brushed silver rather than black, carrying the BMW roundel and giving the edition as 120 pieces. The detail holds up close: riveted window frames, carbon-patterned mirrors, bonnet pins, a bronze-toned insert in the gills and the slim red lamp across the tail. Through the glass sit a silver dashboard, a roll cage and ribbed tan seats. 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Even the method looked backwards to move forwards: the body was developed not in clay but in hand-worked plaster, before being scanned and refined in Munich. Built in 2006 on the running gear of the Z4 M Coupé, it remains one of the more daring shapes of the Bangle era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is finished in a gunmetal grey metallic with a coarse, bright flake, almost graphite in shadow and silver where the light catches the wings. Inside, the cabin is trimmed in red, with seats, steering wheel and door panels set against a silver dashboard and console and a roll cage behind. The red carries outside to the gill inserts behind the front wheels and answers the red lamp strip across the tail, while frosted round lamps, a mesh kidney grille and a red tow eye complete the nose. 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Beneath the theatre lay a serious aerodynamic brief, refining the streamlining of the 328 Touring Coupé that won the 1940 Mille Miglia. BMW built it as a one-off in 2006, on the running gear of the Z4 M Coupé.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere it is finished in a vivid turquoise metallic, a clear cyan that turns almost icy along the highlights of the rear spats. The cabin is light grey, from the ribbed seats with their black harness straps to the steering wheel, set against a silver dashboard and console, and the gills behind the front wheels carry pale inserts to match. The red lamp strip, the frosted round headlamps either side of the kidney grille and the red tow eye are the only warm notes on the car. 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The Mille Miglia Concept's entire body was moulded in carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, and it had no conventional doors at all: fixed sidewalls saved weight and stiffened the structure, while the whole cockpit swung up to let the driver in. Underneath sat the running gear of the Z4 M Coupé.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is painted a rich cobalt blue metallic, saturated and bright, the flake strongest along the shoulders of the front wings. The cabin is light grey, with a silver dashboard and console, ribbed seats with black harness straps and a roll cage visible through the small rear window, and the gills behind the front wheels carry pale inserts. The split windscreen with its twin wipers, the carbon-patterned mirrors, the red tow eye and the red lamp strip crossing the tail are all carried through. The black plaque on its grey stitched base bears the BMW roundel and the word Limited. 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BMW's 2006 Mille Miglia Concept takes that coupé's proportions and rebuilds them around the Z4 M Coupé, itself the closed derivative of an established roadster, just as the Touring car had been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece wears a deep midnight blue metallic, nearly black in shade, the flake surfacing as navy across the bonnet and the rear spats. Inside, the cabin is light grey, with ribbed seats and black harness straps, a pale steering wheel and a silver-finished dashboard and console, and the gills behind the front wheels carry pale inserts that stand out sharply against the dark paint. The frosted round headlamps and the bright grille surround do the same at the front, and a red lamp strip crosses the tail on the diagonal. 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The steel, just a millimetre thick, was laser-scored and folded like origami into the dashboard and centre console, its edges locked together with laser-cut castellations, and even the logos were laser-etched into the metal rather than applied. The leather was layered, pressed into three-dimensional forms and left undyed, so it would gather a patina with age. All of it sat inside a 2006 one-off, built on Z4 M Coupé running gear to honour the 328 Touring Coupé that won the 1940 Mille Miglia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe model nods to that cabin with a silver-finished dashboard and console, the console edged in small castellations, against orange-tan seats, door panels and steering wheel. Outside, the paint is a deep purple metallic that shifts towards violet in direct light and towards aubergine in shadow, and the same orange appears in the inserts of the gills behind the front wheels. The split windscreen, carbon-patterned mirrors, bonnet pins and the red lamp strip across the tail are all present. Built at 1:18, it sits on a grey stitched base; the black plaque reads 'Limited', one of 7.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SE7EN Models","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67684368679125,"sku":"TAH-13087","price":3670.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13087-01.jpg?v=1791409142"},{"product_id":"bmw-mille-miglia-concept-rose-bronze-1-18","title":"BMW Mille Miglia Concept, Rose Bronze Metallic","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1927 and 1957 the Mille Miglia was run 24 times, a thousand-mile race from Brescia to Rome and back over ordinary roads lined with spectators. It drew Nuvolari, Caracciola, Moss and Fangio, and it was as dangerous as it was glamorous: a fatal accident near Bologna in 1938 led to a ban on racing over open roads, and the crash at Guidizzolo in 1957 ended the original race. In between came the 1940 edition, run on a closed triangle of roads, which BMW won outright with the 328 Touring Coupé. Since 1977 the Mille Miglia has lived on as a regularity run for the kinds of car that raced in the original, and it was there, in Brescia in 2006, that BMW presented this concept.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is finished in a rose bronze metallic, a soft pinkish metal tone with a fine sparkle that turns to warm taupe as the body curves away from the light. The cabin is light grey, with ribbed seats, black harness straps and a silver dashboard with two dials, while the gills behind the front wheels carry pale inserts. Up front, frosted round lamps flank a mesh kidney grille above a red tow eye, and a slim red lamp strip crosses the tail. The grey stitched base carries a black plaque with the BMW roundel and the word Limited. Built at 1:18.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SE7EN Models","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67684369137877,"sku":"TAH-13088","price":3670.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13088-01.jpg?v=1791409152"},{"product_id":"bmw-mille-miglia-concept-champagne-gold-1-18","title":"BMW Mille Miglia Concept, Champagne Gold Metallic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Mille Miglia Concept had an unusually quiet start for a show car. BMW unveiled it in May 2006 on what it later called a flying visit to the Mille Miglia, presenting it at the start and finish in Brescia, home of the race its inspiration had won in 1940. It then dropped from view for a year, returning in April 2007 to the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este on Lake Como, where BMW gave it its first public showing, outside the competition, and named the BMW Museum as its next stop. The car it honours had the same air of rarity: the 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé, a one-off body by Touring of Milan, which won that 1940 race at a record 166.7 km\/h.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is finished in a champagne gold metallic, a warm, fine-grained gold that reads as pale bronze on the shaded flanks and almost cream along the bonnet. The cabin is light grey, with ribbed seats, black harness straps and a silver-finished dashboard and console, and the gills behind the front wheels carry pale inserts. The detail extends to the split windscreen, bonnet pins, frosted round headlamps, a red tow eye and the slim red lamp across the tail. Built at 1:18 and set on a grey stitched base, it carries a black plaque with the BMW roundel, reading 'Limited', one of 7.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SE7EN Models","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67684369924309,"sku":"TAH-13089","price":3670.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13089-01.jpg?v=1791409161"},{"product_id":"bmw-mille-miglia-concept-gold-chrome-1-18","title":"BMW Mille Miglia Concept, Gold Chrome","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe face of the Mille Miglia Concept is a study in reinterpretation. The BMW 328 wore round headlamps, and at first glance the 2006 concept appears to do the same, but its circles are built from LEDs and attached as flat elements rather than set into the bodywork, so the lines of the bonnet and wings run down to the front apron uninterrupted. That leaves the tall, narrow BMW kidney grille to dominate the front on its own, with the bonnet's central ridge converging on it like a prow. BMW built the concept as a one-off on the running gear of the Z4 M Coupé, to honour the 328 Touring Coupé that won the 1940 Mille Miglia at an average speed no winner of the race has bettered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew finishes show off those surfaces like this one. The body is finished in a mirror gold chrome that throws back every reflection, turning the grille, the frosted round lamps and the red tow eye into sharp accents. The cabin is light grey, with ribbed seats, black harness straps and a silver dashboard and console visible through the split windscreen, and the gills behind the front wheels carry pale inserts. A red lamp strip crosses the tail on the diagonal. 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Further back, fully covered rear wheels and a long, gently tapering tail form what BMW called a reverse V, concentrating the airflow's separation into one tight area, while carbon diffusers tidy the underside. The 328 Touring Coupé had won the 1940 Mille Miglia on lightness and streamlining; its 2006 tribute, built on Z4 M Coupé running gear, pursued the same ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is painted a pale sage green metallic, a silvery pistachio that reads almost silver in strong light and greener in shade. The cabin is light grey, with ribbed seats and black harness straps, a pale steering wheel and a silver dashboard and console, and the gills are picked out with pale inserts, so their Z-line is easy to follow. Frosted round lamps, a mesh kidney grille and a red tow eye sit at the front, a red lamp strip across the tail at the back. 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After Grier's death in the mid-1950s it spent some thirty years shut away in a garage in Wallingford, Connecticut, until Californian collector Jim Proffit restored it in the 1980s. In 2002 it returned to BMW in Munich, and four years later BMW built the Mille Miglia Concept in its honour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is finished in a very dark slate grey metallic, close to black at a glance, with a blue-green flake that comes alive along the wings and spats. Against it, an orange-tan cabin glows through the split windscreen: ribbed seats with black harness straps, tan steering wheel and door panels, and a silver dashboard and console. The same orange lines the gills behind the front wheels. Brightwork is kept to the grille surround, window frames and polished wheels, with a red lamp strip across the tail. 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BMW built the car in 2006 as a one-off homage to the 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé, the lightweight Touring-bodied racer that won the 1940 Mille Miglia, and set it on the running gear of the Z4 M Coupé.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn solid gloss white the shape is at its most sculptural, every crease and swelling drawn in shadow rather than colour. The cabin is light grey to match, with ribbed seats crossed by black harness straps, a pale steering wheel and a silver dashboard and console, and even the gill inserts are kept pale. The contrast comes from the black mesh of the kidney grille, the carbon-patterned mirrors, the red tow eye and the slim red lamp strip that crosses the tail on the diagonal. 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Von Hanstein was so set on winning that he kept putting off the agreed change of driver until, shortly before the finish, he stopped on the open road and handed the wheel to Bäumer, who took the car across the line a quarter of an hour clear of the second-placed Alfa Romeo. With the roadsters third, fifth and sixth, BMW took the team prize as well. The 2006 Mille Miglia Concept, a one-off on Z4 M Coupé running gear, is the company's tribute to that day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is finished in a bright silver metallic with a lively, coarse sparkle, recalling the fine silver of the real concept. It is paired with a red cabin, the seats, steering wheel, door panels and gear lever set against a silver dashboard and console, and the red returns outside in the gill inserts and the lamp strip across the tail. The split windscreen, riveted window frames, bonnet pins and frosted round headlamps complete the picture. 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Between the early drawings and the finished car the design grew more radical still: the separate rear lamps of the sketches were dropped, leaving a single asymmetric strip across the tail. The result, a 2006 one-off on Z4 M Coupé running gear, honours the 328 Touring Coupé that won the 1940 Mille Miglia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is finished in pearl white, a lustrous white with a soft pearlescent sheen that gives the curves a faint silvery glow. The cabin is red, with ribbed seats, steering wheel, door panels and gear lever set against a silver dashboard and console and a roll cage, and the red is picked up outside in the gill inserts and the lamp strip that crosses the tail. The black mesh kidney grille, frosted round headlamps, carbon-patterned mirrors and red tow eye finish the front. 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BMW reworked the concept's intake and exhaust for a sound tuned to that racing tradition, a muffled rumble at idle that hardens into a full-throated note by 4,900 rpm, where the engine reaches its peak torque of 365 Nm. It was built in 2006 as a one-off, a tribute rather than a racer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is finished in matte black, a deep satin that swallows reflections and turns the body into a silhouette, so the brightwork does the talking: the chrome-edged kidney grille, the frosted round headlamps, the polished wheels and the riveted window frames. Inside, a red cabin with a silver dashboard and console shows through the split windscreen, and red is echoed outside in the gill inserts, the tow eye and the lamp strip across the tail. 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The company was frank that the Mille Miglia Concept would never win a race. It was built instead as a monument to the engineers of the 328, a one-off that set the Touring car's proportions (long bonnet, divided windscreen, enclosed rear wheels) over the running gear of the Z4 M Coupé, with an entire body in carbon-fibre reinforced plastic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is painted a soft powder blue metallic, a pale, cool pastel with a fine sparkle that brightens almost to silver on the highlights. The cabin is light grey, with ribbed seats and black harness straps, a pale steering wheel and a silver dashboard and console, and the gills behind the front wheels carry pale inserts. The kidney grille, frosted round headlamps, red tow eye, carbon-patterned mirrors and the red lamp strip across the tail are all in place. 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Built as a research vehicle rather than a preview of anything BMW intended to sell, it replaced panels with fabric stretched over a movable frame, so that shape could become something the car adjusts rather than something fixed at the factory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTeal metallic covers this example, a deep blue-green that turns almost petrol-coloured in shadow and brightens towards aqua across the crowns of the wings, with an orange cabin inside. The colour suits the GINA's long, tensioned surfaces, each hollow in the flanks catching a different shade. Detail runs to the stalk-mounted mirrors, the divided windscreen, the BMW roundel on the rear deck and the paired tailpipes in a carbon-weave diffuser, and inside to the orange-rimmed steering wheel and stacked round dials. Its plaque, on a stitched grey base, marks it as one of 7. 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There is no conventional bonnet: for maintenance, the skin parts along a seam down the centre, in a mechanism BMW compared to the rail-and-clip closure of a doctor's traditional medical bag, exposing the V8 beneath before closing back into an unbroken surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is painted a deep, glossy red metallic over a white and light grey cabin, the pale interior reading bright through the divided windscreen. The headlamps are modelled open, slim and narrowing at their outer edges either side of the twin kidney grilles, and a crease runs down the middle of the bonnet along the line where the full-size car's skin opens. Inside, the white-rimmed wheel carries the BMW roundel, and a stack of three dials, the speedometer marked in km\/h, sits in the centre console. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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Its name, Geometry and Functions In 'N' Adaptions, set out the brief: a car whose form could change to suit the moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is finished in a rose bronze metallic, a warm, brownish metal with a pink cast and a coarse flake that shows best on the curves of the wings, over a white and light grey interior. The steering wheel is rimmed in white around a BMW roundel, the dials sit stacked in the centre console, and outside the open headlamps flank the twin kidneys while paired tailpipes and a carbon-weave diffuser finish the tail. The plaque, carrying the BMW roundel, sits on a stitched grey base. 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Underneath, the running gear comes from the BMW Z8, V8 included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChampagne metallic suits those uninterrupted surfaces: a pale gold-beige with a fine flake, warm on the upper surfaces and cooling towards silver where the flanks turn under. The cabin is white and light grey, with a white-rimmed steering wheel, a stack of round dials in the centre console and grey lower trim. Outside, the stalk-mounted mirrors, open headlamps, kidney grilles, split-spoke wheels and paired tailpipes are cleanly executed. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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Begun in 2001 and shown in June 2008, it was a research tool for questioning how cars are designed and built, not a preview of a production model.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA solid gloss white with a white and light grey interior shows the form plainly. With no metallic flake and no contrasting cabin, the eye goes straight to the shape: the hollows behind the front wheels, the ridge running back from each headlamp, the rounded tail. The steering wheel is white-rimmed around a BMW roundel, the dials sit stacked in the centre console, and the split-spoke wheels and paired tailpipes are bright silver against the paint, with a carbon-weave diffuser below. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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The tail lamps and indicators sit beneath the fabric and shine straight through it, working without any change to the car's shape: lighting reduced to the moments it is needed, as the GINA principle intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example pairs a bright silver metallic, alive with flake, with a red interior: red seats, door cards and steering-wheel rim, set off against grey dashboard trim and a stack of round analogue dials. The headlamps are modelled open, narrowed to slim eyes either side of the kidney grilles, and the tail carries paired tailpipes in a carbon-weave diffuser below the BMW roundel on the rear deck. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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Development began in 2001, and BMW kept the car out of public view until June 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece comes closest in spirit to that skin: a matte silver with no gloss at all, so the surfaces read soft and tensioned, paired with a pale blush pink-beige interior and a matching steering-wheel rim. It also belongs to a different edition from the coloured cars in the series, carrying a brushed-silver plaque numbered out of 120 rather than a black plate numbered out of seven. The slim headlamps, kidney grilles, split-spoke wheels and paired tailpipes are finely done, and the car sits on a stitched dark grey base. 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In BMW's own phrase, each function is revealed only if and when it is needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePearl white gives this example a soft lustre, the finish shifting faintly towards cream and silver as the light moves along the flanks, and it is matched with a red interior: red seats, door cards and steering-wheel rim against grey trim and stacked round dials. The open headlamps, kidney grilles, stalk-mounted mirrors and paired tailpipes in a carbon-weave diffuser are all crisply rendered. The plaque, bearing the BMW roundel, sits on a stitched dark grey base. 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Conceived under Chris Bangle and revealed in June 2008, the GINA is now kept at the BMW Museum in Munich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSage green metallic, a pale, silvery green that reads almost grey in shade, covers this example, with a white and light grey cabin. The soft colour suits the long, tensioned flanks and the deep scoops behind the front wheels, keeping the attention on the form. Inside, the white-rimmed steering wheel and stacked dials are clearly modelled; outside, the open headlamps, split-spoke wheels and paired tailpipes are finished in bright silver above a carbon-weave diffuser. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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The car was shown in June 2008; eight months later, in February 2009, Bangle announced he was leaving BMW, handing over to his long-serving deputy Adrian van Hooydonk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn deep gloss black with a red interior, this is a dramatic pairing: the paint turns every hollow in the body into a pool of reflection and throws the red cabin (seats, door cards, steering-wheel rim) into sharp relief. The silver split-spoke wheels, the paired tailpipes and the open headlamps stand out brightly against the black, and a carbon-weave diffuser fills the tail. The plaque, carrying the BMW roundel, sits on a stitched grey base. 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The headlamps follow the same logic, hidden until small motors pull the fabric back from them like eyelids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatte black removes every reflection, and on the GINA that brings the body closer to the soft, light-absorbing look of a textile than gloss paint could. Against it the red interior glows (seats, door cards and steering-wheel rim, with round dials stacked in the centre console), and the bright split-spoke wheels, paired tailpipes and open headlamps stand out sharply. The crease down the centre of the bonnet, where the full-size car's skin parts, is easy to follow in this finish. The plaque sits on a stitched grey base. 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The rocker-panel contour can be adjusted to optimise an air duct, and if more cooling air is needed the kidney grille can be opened. Underneath it all sits the hardware of the BMW Z8.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is finished in a medium gunmetal grey metallic with a heavy flake that glitters across the wings, paired with a red interior, where red upholstery and a red-rimmed steering wheel meet grey lower trim and a column of round dials. The combination gives the car a harder, more technical look than the brighter colourways. Detail extends to the stalk-mounted mirrors, the open headlamps, the split-spoke wheels with BMW centre caps and the paired tailpipes in a carbon-weave diffuser. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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Nothing about the shape is permanent; it is simply the form the car holds until something asks it to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePurple metallic, deep and saturated, with a bright flake that flashes violet in the highlights, gives this example real presence, and the orange interior makes a bold contrast: orange seats, door cards and steering-wheel rim against grey trim and stacked round dials. The open headlamps, twin kidney grilles, split-spoke wheels and paired tailpipes in a carbon-weave diffuser are crisply finished, and the BMW roundel sits on the rear deck. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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Pardo later explained that BMW created GINA 'to challenge conventional automotive design and manufacturing techniques', a brief it answered by replacing the metal body with fabric stretched over a movable frame, with headlamps that open like eyelids and a spoiler that rises from beneath the skin. The finished car went on to be displayed at the BMW Museum in Munich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMidnight blue metallic, dark enough to read almost black in shadow but alive with blue flake in the light, covers this example, with a white and light grey cabin that stands out brightly against it. The white-rimmed steering wheel, the stacked dials and the grey console are clearly modelled, and outside the open headlamps, chrome-ringed kidney grilles and paired tailpipes catch the light above a carbon-weave diffuser. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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Developed under Chris Bangle and revealed in June 2008, the GINA was a research car, built to test those ideas rather than to reach a showroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCobalt blue metallic, a vivid, mid-bright blue with a strong flake, gives this example a confident, sporting look against a white and light grey interior. The white-rimmed steering wheel, the stacked round dials and the grey console are clearly picked out, and the divided windscreen and stalk-mounted mirrors are neatly formed. Open headlamps, kidney grilles, split-spoke wheels with BMW centre caps and paired tailpipes in a carbon-weave diffuser complete the detail. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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BMW revealed the car in June 2008, after seven years of work kept from public view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurquoise metallic, a bright blue with a hint of green and a fine flake, makes this one of the liveliest pieces in the series, set against a white and light grey interior. The headlamps are shown open, slim and angled either side of the twin kidneys, and the white-rimmed steering wheel and stacked round dials are cleanly modelled inside. Split-spoke wheels with BMW centre caps, stalk-mounted mirrors and paired tailpipes in a carbon-weave diffuser complete it. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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Revealed by BMW in June 2008, it treated the shape seen at rest as only one of the forms the car could take.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePowder blue metallic, pale and soft with a silvery flake, gives this example a lighter, almost pastel character, paired with a white and light grey interior. The white-rimmed steering wheel, the stacked dials and the grey console are neatly modelled, the divided windscreen sits between body-coloured mirror stalks, and the open headlamps, kidney grilles, split-spoke wheels and paired tailpipes in a carbon-weave diffuser are all crisply finished. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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Few concept cars have questioned the basic materials of the automobile so directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example takes the idea of a reflective surface to its extreme: a mirror-like gold chrome that turns the GINA's tensioned curves into bands of gold and near-black, depending on what they reflect. The white and light grey cabin, white-rimmed steering wheel and stacked dials give the eye somewhere to rest, while the mirrors on their stalks are chromed to match the body. Split-spoke wheels, paired tailpipes and a carbon-weave diffuser complete the lower body. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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Developed under Chris Bangle from 2001 and revealed in June 2008, it showed how much of a car's appearance comes from the joins between its parts, simply by taking them away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRendered in mirror-finish silver chrome, this piece turns that one-piece fabric body into a moving reflection: each crown and hollow bends the surroundings around it, so the shape is read through what it reflects rather than through colour. Inside, the white and light grey cabin, white-rimmed wheel and stacked round dials sit calmly against all that shine. The headlamps are modelled open beside chrome-ringed kidneys, and the tail carries paired tailpipes in a carbon-weave diffuser. The plaque on its stitched grey base marks it as one of 7. 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The car was unveiled at Art Basel Miami Beach on 30 November 2016 and raced in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January 2017 for BMW Team RLL, driven by Bill Auberlen, Alexander Sims, Augusto Farfus and Bruno Spengler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe model carries the scheme in full: white bodywork, a yellow band over the bonnet, red and green dots on the nose, a red roof and a blue rear wing with yellow endplates, together with the #19, the IMSA and GTLM decals and blue-lettered Michelin tyres on black wheels. The roll cage and racing seat show through the glass. It stands on clear supports over a brushed metal base engraved Art Car John Baldessari BMW M6 GTLM, 2016. 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Fine blue shadows were airbrushed over the silver paint, and he used two Japanese techniques, kirigane, or metal cutting, and arare, foil impression, to set small pieces of silver, gold and aluminium foil into the bodywork. Kayama said the clean lines of the car only became clear to him once it was fully masked. It was made as an exhibit and never raced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe model renders that surface closely: silver flecked all over with tiny white flakes, deep blue drifts across the bonnet, doors and boot lid scattered with gold and silver leaf, and softer bands of turquoise and lilac along the lower body. Around the artwork it is a period 535i, from the four round headlamps and kidney grille to the cross-spoke alloy wheels and grey cabin. It stands on clear posts over a brushed metal base engraved Art Car Matazo Kayama BMW 535i 1990. 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Its fame outside racing comes from the 2005 video game Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which gave it a cult following.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis model reworks the game's scheme in white and blue. The blue is laid on as rough, scratched brush strokes, crossing the doors in the familiar diagonal bands and running over the bonnet and roof, with black hash marks scattered across the panels. Silver multi-spoke wheels with gold centre-lock nuts fill the widened arches, and a black wing stands on two uprights above the boot lid. Inside are a white roll cage, a blue bucket seat and steering wheel, a switch panel with coloured buttons and a fire extinguisher. It stands on a carbon-pattern base under a black plaque reading 1\/18 BMW M3E46 GTR, Limited Edition, one of 99. 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Then, in 2005, it became the car at the heart of the video game Need for Speed: Most Wanted, painted silver with broad blue bands, and won a cult following. The connection runs both ways: in November 2024 BMW wrapped the 2001 series-winning #42 car in the game's livery as a museum piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis model wears that silver and blue scheme: metallic blue sweeping up from the sills in diagonal bands across the doors, over the bonnet and the roof. The widened arches hold silver multi-spoke wheels with gold centre-lock nuts, and a tall black wing stands on two uprights above the boot. Through the glass are a white roll cage, a blue bucket seat, a switch panel with coloured buttons and a fire extinguisher. It stands on a carbon-pattern base under a black plaque reading 1\/18 BMW M3E46 GTR, Limited Edition, one of 399. 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