{"id":18286,"date":"2019-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/bmw-garmisch-concept-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:43:37","slug":"bmw-garmisch-concept-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/bmw-garmisch-concept-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW Garmisch Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Marcello Gandini is well known to car fans. His design masterpieces for brands like Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Lancia, Lamborghini or Maserati have made history. From 1965 to 1980 he was the head of the design department at Bertone, then he opened his own design studio. In addition to the various production vehicles, he also styled interesting concept cars such as the Alfa Romeo Carabo or the Lancia Stratos Zero. However, there are also lesser-known designs that are probably not known to the vast majority of our readers. These include the BMW Garmisch, which debuted at the Geneva Motor Show 1970 at the Bertone stand. After the fair, this one-off disappeared. The influence of this concept car seems to have been large enough at BMW, as they entrusted Gandini with the design of their new middle-class model, which debuted in 1972 as the very first 5-Series.

Before and after, there had been various Italian designs for BMW models. Touring manufactured a few racing cars based on the 328 for the Mille Miglia, Giorgetti Giugiaro was responsible for the styling of the wedge-shaped Turbo Concept and M1 and Bertone designed the 3200 CS in the 1960s. Nuccio Bertone himself wanted to strengthen the connection between his house and BMW by surprising the Munich-based company at the Geneva Motor Show 1970 with the Garmisch Concept. It was an independent design proposal without official order, with which they wanted to show their creative potential. “We wanted to create a modern mid-sized Coup\u00e9 that was faithful to BMW’s design language, but that was also more dynamic and even a bit provocative”, recalls Gandini. Many smooth surfaces are complemented by interesting details such as the unique grille, the glazed headlights, the air intakes in the C-pillars or the honeycomb sun visor on the rear window. Also inside the Garmisch got a unique look with vertically installed radio and a large folding mirror on the passenger side. The name for this concept car was chosen because of the then high popularity of skiing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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