BMW Pays Homage To The Original 328 With the Villa d'Este 328 Hommage

As the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este goes on in Lake Como, Italy, we're getting beamed some images of the latest and greatest products and concepts. One of those concepts was done up by BMW, who decided to pay respects to the original BMW 328 from the 1930s.

Blending elements of the Vision ConnectedDrive alongside vintage cues from the 1930s 328, you pretty much wind up with the 328 Hommage. It's that simple.

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To pay tribute to one of the most successful and best-looking car of the 1930s, BMW unveiled today the 328 Hommage. This year, the original BMW 328 celebrates its 75th birthday and at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, BMW will showcase this new two-seater anniversary model.

With the new 328 Hommage, BMW also showcases some of the technology and materials that we will see in future production vehicles. The major parts of the exterior and interior of the BMW 328 Hommage are made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP), a lightweight material that was used in the series production of CFRP roofs and structural components for the BMW M6 as well as CFRP roofs for the BMW M3...

[Source: BMWBlog]


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1BadMan - 5/21/2011 8:59:34 AM

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Too cool. The rendering of the car racing the original is the best looking. Very well done. This is the second concept done with the Vision Efficient Dynamics model. BMW AG has a car coming out with a lot of these design cues. Probably the i8 or possibly the Z2.

dbtk - 5/21/2011 6:53:52 PM

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Interesting execution of a vintage car, however, the front is a little too beaver looking with it's buck-tooth grille.

asingleslice - 5/21/2011 7:32:20 PM

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"what's up Doc?"

MercBasher - 5/22/2011 1:40:05 PM

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Wow you're so right !

Yonder7 - 5/22/2011 5:55:54 AM

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Ugly....as sin ...I hate the trend of MB and BMW to do New cars based in old designs as hapens with the SLS. Forget the old designs and open your mind...this car is horrible.

tkindred - 5/22/2011 1:36:06 PM

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What did Chris Bangle design? I can't think of anything noteworthy.

tkindred - 5/22/2011 1:37:27 PM

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But I do have to admit, designs like this one make Bangle look like a genius.