From Villa d'Este, we bring you alive photos of the new BMW iii.0 CSL Hommage.

This model is the BMW Blueprint Team's tribute to the 3.0 CSL, a timeless archetype and iconic BMW Coupé from the 1970s.

"Our Hommage cars not only demonstrate how proud we are of our heritage, but besides how important the past tin be in determining our hereafter," says Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW Group Blueprint. "The BMW three.0 CSL Hommage represents a nod to the technology achievement exemplified by the BMW iii.0 CSL in its lightweight design and performance. With intelligent lightweight construction and modern materials, the 3.0 CSL Hommage brings the character of that earlier model into the 21st century, showing it in a new and exciting guise," he says, summarising the approach the design squad took with the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage.

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Lightweight design past and nowadays.

"CSL" stands for "Coupé Sport Leichtbau" (coupé, sport, lightweight). With its aluminium bonnet, boot and wings, Plexiglas windows and equipment rigorously pared downward to the blank essentials, the old BMW 3.0 CSL tipped the scales effectually 200 kg lighter than its sibling model, the BMW 3.0 CS. Unsurprisingly, then, it was predestined for a career on the race track. Whereas the material of choice in the 1970s was aluminium, today carbon fibre – or carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP) – offers the optimum weight-to-strength ratio. These high-force fibres are fifty-fifty lighter and stronger than aluminium. And the BMW three.0 CSL Hommage makes generous use of the loftier-tech blended, reinterpreting the concept of lightweight design for the mod age. Wherever CFRP is used, it is also visible – rendering the lightweight blueprint principle tangible both inside and out. The BMW Group is a world leader in the product and awarding of CFRP in automotive design and tin can already boast many years of experience in serial product of CFRP structural parts for the BMW Grand and, in particular, the BMW i.

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The exterior: power and elegance.

Karim Habib, Head of BMW Blueprint, explains the thinking behind the design of the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage: "For BMW designers like u.s.a., the BMW 3.0 CSL is a style icon. Its combination of racing genes and elegance generates an engaging artful that continues to win hearts fifty-fifty today.
The BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage celebrates many of those feature features, only without copying them. Indeed, some of the parallels are not immediately obvious. We wanted people to sense the family resemblance rather than come across information technology directly off."

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The BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage is a vision of pure athleticism: the elongated torso is set off by distinctive air deflectors, powerful wheel arches and prominent spoilers to the roof and tail. Despite its size, the aerodynamic elements are cardinal in enabling air to flow optimally forth the sides of the vehicle. The front air deflector serves to vent the engine compartment, while wings over the rear wheels ensure optimum airflow around the vehicle. Minor rear-view cameras serve to further reduce aerodynamic elevate. The big rear spoiler increases downforce on the driven rear beam and in so doing improves power transmission. The Air Curtain and Air Breather systems guarantee optimum ventilation of the wheel housings. And the sheer cocky-conviction and sporting prowess of the BMW three.0 CSL Hommage are perfectly summed upward in the original colour of its spiritual predecessor – Golf Yellow.

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The forepart – muscular athleticism.

Boasting one of the broadest and lowest forepart ends of any vehicle in the
BMW Grouping, the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage's front exudes pure power and athleticism. At the centre, the feature BMW kidney grille stands tall in citation of the more upright styling of the kidney grille of yesteryear. The size and spatial depth of the kidney grille symbolise the output of the powerful 6-cylinder in-line engine with eBoost. At the same time, the finely wrought geometry of frame and kidney struts lends the front an air of quality and exclusivity. The characteristic iv-eyed face gives a contemporary, hexagonal interpretation of front end-end sportiness. Laser light and LED applied science facilitate slender, land-of-the-fine art lighting graphics, and the flat contours of the headlamps generate that characteristically focused BMW expect. A stylised "X" inside the lights divides the lighting functions and conjures upwards memories of the X-shaped headlamp stickers once used in long-distance racing. Horizontal LED strips create a visual bail between headlamps and kidney grille while at the same fourth dimension emphasising the wide, flat impact of the forepart. A large carbon-fibre forepart splitter reduces the gap betwixt road and forepart end and, in combination with the kidney grille, offers a modern interpretation of the earlier car's highly distinctive shark nose. Ii circular openings and a serial of elongated slots pay tribute to other elements featured in the earlier automobile, simply offer a new interpretation for the 21st century.

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The sides – contrapuntal elegance.

The vehicle sides are in elegant counterpoint to the marked athleticism of front and rear. The long wheelbase and elongated bonnet appear to stretch the Hommage'southward silhouette. A continuous, horizontal line encircles the vehicle by way of paying tribute to a distinctive stylistic characteristic of the earlier BMW 3.0 CSL: its all-round chrome trim. In combination with the blackness highlight beneath, the continuous line intensifies the apartment, elongated advent of the sides.

A particular detail of the BMW three.0 CSL Hommage is the roofline. Consciously subdivided into three, the line recalls the distinctive upper section of the
BMW 3.0 CS – one of the start coupés to feature a roof that did not flow into the tail. Compared with the ubiquitous fastback coupés of the day, this was both an innovation and a design statement, a feature that exuded athleticism and elegance in equal mensurate. In keeping with the BMW iii.0 CSL, the Hommage features a BMW logo on each of the C-pillars.

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The all-round shoulderline is also the starting indicate for the subtle, finely sculpted surfaces of the sides. Information technology follows the development of the shadowy areas backside the front end wheel all the way to the lit surfaces in a higher place the rear wheels. This coaction between light and shade lends move and dynamic intensity to the generous surfaces of the vehicle'southward sides. Dark CFRP areas narrow the gap between the sides and the road, again paying tribute to the consistent lightweight design of the BMW 3.0 CSL. In combination with the black graphic accents, the nighttime lightweight elements reduce the perceived height of the vehicle and further emphasise its apartment silhouette. The black 21″ blend wheels in matt and loftier-gloss bi-colour versions offer an boosted unique highlight. Air control blades in the interstices of the wheel rims, meanwhile, serve to further optimise aerodynamics.

The rear cease – a muscular presence.

Every bit with the front end stop, the vehicle'south tail is broad and muscular in pattern. Generous surfaces generate presence, horizontal elements emphasise width.
A particular highlight is the styling of the rear lights: an LED strip higher up the spoiler links the two lights, thus giving the rear end a formal framework. The powerfully sculpted rear frock with CFRP diffusor creates a visual impression of the BMW iii.0 CSL's raw ability. Even viewed from above, the BMW 3.0 CSL is extremely dynamic. From kidney grille to headlamps, the bonnet traces a broad "V" – a cornball throwback to a distinctive and dynamic chemical element of earlier
BMW coupés.

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The interior – purist elegance.

Pared down to a minimum, the interior of the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage puts its lightweight design on show and renders its racing character elegantly tangible. All interior elements are there out of absolute necessity, every function has a high-quality blueprint, structural or bulldoze-related part. In the all-CFRP interior, the only wood-similar presence is the "instrument panel" – a cross-fellow member and purely structural element. This is a clear reference to the interior of the earlier
BMW iii.0 CSL, which featured an all-circular wood trim throughout the interior. In the new version, only the minor central eBoost charging display interrupts the wooden musical instrument panel. Infotainment is every bit minimalist in concept: a key display on the steering cavalcade informs the driver of the electric current gear, speed, revs and shift point.

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Racing genes and lightweight design with finesse.

Other racing features include saucepan seats with high-quality stitching, a six-betoken belt and red anodised safety features such as the outlet nozzles for the extinguishing foam, the burn down extinguisher itself, and the ii switches on the center console for the emergency shut-off and fire extinguishing mechanism. The just elements in the rear of the vehicle are ii helmets integrated into the manual tunnel. These are held in place past a belt when non in apply. In the identify of a rear seat bench, in that location are just covers for the eBoost energy accumulators. Special reflector technology in combination with LED strips create an impressive 3D consequence on the covers.

In its use of cutting-edge materials and detailed solutions, the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage displays technical composure and subtlety of grade. Meticulously crafted aluminium sleeves add loftier-quality accents at the junctions between individual structural elements. The door blueprint is as minimalist every bit information technology is expressive: precise, clean surfaces trace an arc rearwards, lending the door element a flowing, dynamic quality. The door openers combine a DTM-fashion pull strap with the elegant handle-integrated opener of the before BMW 3.0 CSL, resulting in the hybrid solution of a nylon pull strap located direct behind the take hold of handle in the door. As with the interior as a whole, this detail lends expression to the unique character of the BMW three.0 CSL Hommage: a winning combination of lightweight design, athleticism and elegance.

[Photos: Bimmertoday]