Just three months after the premiere of the sensational BMW Coupé Zagato, BMW and Zagato is calling attention again in the Pebble Beach 2012 Elegance Contest with the fruits of your last collaboration. The new BMW Roadster Zagato has been created in just six weeks of work, with totally handmade techniques and luxury finish. This car represents another masterful example of the art of the traditional body, with a marked sports and male character.
In the Pebble Beach 2012 elegance contest, the BMW Roadster Zagato, unique in its kind, is in the best possible company. Every year a wide variety of exotic cars meet on the Pacific coast, California, to surprise attendees. In fact, it would be very difficult to find a more suitable place for the premiere of the BMW Roadster Zagato.
The next stage of a successful collaboration
The decision to launch a new collaboration between BMW and the Italian bodybuilder Zagato became shortly after the end of the Zagato BMW Coupé. Encouraged by the reaction to Coupé, Adrian Van Hoaydonk, senior vice president of BMW Group, and Andrea Zagato soon brought their collaboration one step further. The goal this time would be a Roadster model. The challenge, doing it only in six weeks.
The Italian design resolves the fineness Roadster Bavara tradition.
No other concept, with the exception of Roadster, embodies the pure fascination of motoring. With the roof down, two seats and exceptional performance, it allows the driver to experience dynamic emotions: the pleasure of driving with the five senses. To this BMW Roadster Zagato BMW Mixture adds the Galas of the Italians their "Dolce Vita", the designers succeed in lending the car of their own character without blurring their family ties.
BMW and Zagato can both look back in a long and successful tradition of construction Roadsters, and the BMW Zagato sees its respective fusion DNA design in one. There are, of course, more to the design of a Roadster than to cut the roof of a Coupé. "This car is not conceived only as an elegant convertible, but also as a male and extremely dynamic sports car, which evokes a high -range driving experience," says design chief Zagato Norihiko Harada, describing the design philosophy behind the BMW Roadster Zagato. Like the BMW Zagato Coupé, the Roadster is ready to drive - and designed to be used at high speeds.
The proportions of the car do not hide the special driving experience that awaits the driver. The sweeping bell and the long -distance traffic pin of the controller again near the motor rear wheels. There, it is very down in an ultra-sports position inside the cabin. The tense, seal surface treatment BMW and clearly defined distribution Zagato of visual mass lend the BMW Zagato an athletic appearance - ready and impatient, demanding to be used.
Distinctive front design.
An adjustment under grill kidney, with intricate Z-Right design, as well as focused double circular headlights and a front tridimensional apron of the expressive face of the BMW Roadster Zagato, as they do the front of the Coupé. It is this area of the car that provides the stylistic bond between the two models, giving them a clear identity, which reflects their family ties and, at the same time, that makes them easily recognizable.
In general, the frontal end of the BMW Zagato is very three -dimensional, formed wide and high. The nose waved forward dynamically, immersed down near the road, and allows the BMW Zagato to cut an agile figure, in squats as if it were going to jump. The contoured hood extends this aura of dynamism, with its wide tense lines and surfaces, while a couple of air intakes in the carly hood supply the engine compartment with additional air and a touch inside the muscular engine. The focused headlights accentuate the driver -oriented car character and the concept of high speed, the "razorlight" - a strip of LED light necessary to establish on the matte surface above the headlights - finishes these elements out with an extra touch of class.
Sitting low among the headlights is Zagato to take on the BMW ovoid grill, with matte rhound kidney. A detail of the stand -out here - and one shared with the BMW Coupé Zagato - is the use of a large number of small mate -brillo zagato "z" Letters A make up the kidney grid. This system injects greater depth in the fence and lies into a high quality accent for the front.
Dynamic side view.
The BMW Roadster Zagato flanks reflect the outgoing character of his brother Coupé. In this case, the distribution of the clearly defined visual and striking mass of a zagato mixture with the distinctive seal surface and the use of family forms of BMW models. Together, imbute the BMW Zagato with a distinctive and sports charm. The black color of the pillars to allows them to fade in the background and sound the car body sculpture more effectively.
The BMW Roadster Zagato silhouette emerges a balanced and alert presence, the sweeping car, axes, short blasting and the rear low fusion in a tense and sporty whole. The base and surface base choreography is similar to that of the BMW Coupé Zagato, but subtle differences are noticeable in the rear. The end of the tail as whole places a greater emphasis on the elegance than that of the Coupé, which shows a sports edge. Roadster lines here are softer and the rear is smaller. In addition, an additional fine line forge of a visual connection between the threshold and the rear skirt to round the design of the back with style.
Another remarkable detail of the BMW Roadster Zagato is its Roll -Bars - an important element in the design of many Roadsters and commonly an identity stamp. The Roll-Del BMW Roadster Zagato Zagato bars are quintessence. The designers were inspired for these technical components of an airplane wing and experimented with its mass before deciding on a dynamic inclined forward the high range and structure. "The low roll-bares, inspired by the wing of an airplane, are a point of attraction that make the BMW Roadster Zagato recognizable from distance," says Norihiko Harada. His brown color gives the roll bars-a even more prominent profile. Allowing the eyes to wander back, and the tail of the car offers a harmonious conclusion to its silhouette in general. Other striking details are the air outlets that adorn the roadster flanks, which reflect the shape of the hood ventilation grilles and reproduce their dynamic theme. The "Z" silver located under the ventilation grilles of the flank refers to the collaboration of BMW / Zagato.
In view of the vehicle's bird, the interpretation of the BMW Roadster Zagato Zagato Seal of the Double Bubble of the soft roof cover roof is highlighted. The cover uses this double bubble element to extend the bell lines all the road to the back, where the muscle proportions of the rear wheel of the unit are accentuated. These two domes of the ceiling - the "Doppia Gobba" in the local jargon - are a characteristic of the Zagato design firm and can be found in almost all Zagato cars.
Sports and elegant design of the rear.
The sharply chiseled tail of the BMW Roadster Zagato offers advertising very well for the exquisite talents of the Zagato body specialists. The rear shows a seamless perfection, giving a sensation of quality - such as launching a sculpture of a single mold. In this case, the high degree of artisanal work within the walls of the Zagato Design Study and very wide of the experience in work with surfaces and forms are glowing to light.
Taken as a whole, the rear of the BMW Roadster Zagato has a very wide, low -height, giving the car a wide posture and musculature planted on the road. Like those of his Coupé counterpart, the rear lights of the BMW Roadster Zagato are ordered behind a black tired crystal. The glass area extends in a black surface band around the entire rear, which underlines its horizontal geometry. Under it, the dark diffuser gives the BMW Zagato a stance on squatting, high range. Exhaust pipes located towards the outer edges of the rear Add emphasis In addition, its matt finish contributes another quality flourish. The body's color surfaces between the exhaust pipes of tracing the final lines in the decline in low for the workshop and large set of looks from the rear.
Outstanding and details.
The unique character of the BMW Roadster Zagato is reflected in the smallest details. On the 19-class Light-style sporting alloy wheels of five-speaking, he has a propeller track about them, offering a subtle wink to the origins of the two companies: BMW and Zagato Founder Ugo Zagato, by an airway in the construction of cars. The discreetly attractive matte finish of the wheels lends the extra attractiveness of the car from the side.
The highlights of the BMW Roadster Zagato is his painting. The outer exclusive paint finish, a bright gray with impressive depth, seems to wrap the body of the car in a layer of liquid metal. Depending on how light affects the body, the color spectrum varies from dark gray to a light silver, so the surfaces and shapes of the BMW Roadster Zagato to life.
The exterior and interior game.
The open character of the top of a Roadster means that it is often the interior that attracts attention in the first place. Only later attention goes to the outside and the interaction between the outside and the interior. The BMW Roadster Zagato zeros in this peculiarity and consciously allows the limits between the interior and the outside to blur.
To this end, the colors and materials marked by the transition from the inside to the outside exudate a special exclusivity. A brown leather strip wraps the interior as a lane to create a visual connection between the interior of the car and its exterior. The brown leather extends from the instrument panel on the door threshold and behind the seats, and even incorporates the bar device. Hugging the driver and passenger as a large protective arm, this skin ornament offers an attractive transition inside another predominantly black way. The warm brown color reappears in various areas of the interior, including the contrast seams of the seats, the steering wheel and the doors and the central console. The color game and the composition of the details bathe the interior of the BMW Roadster Zagato in a sumptuous environment, while the brown "z" embroidered in the seats is a wink more to its origins.
The interior itself highlights the clear structuring can be expected from BMW, and invites the driver to give the machine around an exhaustive training. Details such as horizontal sweeping lines along the inside of the doors and the long -term central console give a rarely straight sense to sports inspiration and the conductive approach of the interior.
Zagato - a body with a long tradition.
Founded by UGO Zagato in 1919, today Zagato is the only car body manufacturer still on independent property. Since his early days, Zagato has adopted a minimalist approach and compared to his feet in his creations, very in line with the Milanese Design Tradition. Form has priority over details, thanks in part to technical considerations. UGO ZAGATO DESIGN BODY learned his trade in - among other sectors - from aviation, where aerodynamics and light construction play a central role. Zagato duly applied these principles rigorously in the construction of cars and will soon celebrate a streak of victories as a partner of the construction of Alfa Romeo's body. The "necessary beauty" of aerodynamics and light construction came to represent a maximum design, which has defined the shape of each zagato since then.
Today, with Andrea Zagato and Marella Zagato Rivolta-, becoming the third generation of their family to take a seat at the head, the company is presented as a design study that combines the emotion and artisanal work of the construction of the body with the precision of the state of the most advanced technology. Zagato follows the tradition of bodies in the development of only the car peel and leaving the mechanics of the machine without touching. More than 200 VMAX concepts, special editions and micro-series have been created this way by the years and find recognition among connoisseurs and collectors around the world. In fact, all zagatos are collection pieces coveted today and it is worth many times what their original owners paid by them.
