The BMW Garmisch is a two-door coupe concept car that the Italian coachbuilder Bertone built in 1969 on the chassis of a BMW 2002 Tii and showed at the Geneva Motor Show in 1970. Marcello Gandini designed it as an independent proposal rather than a BMW commission, meant to show off Bertone's creativity and to surprise BMW, and he gave it an angular, futuristic style that broke from the rounded BMW lines of the time. It is named after the Garmisch ski resort. Gandini lengthened the front and rear hoods and lowered the body, and added square glass-covered headlights, double hexagonal kidney grilles and a honeycomb mesh over the rear window. After the car returned to Munich it disappeared, and the fate of the original is unknown. Its design influenced the first 5 Series (E12) of 1972 and the first 3 Series (E21) of 1975. In May 2019 BMW unveiled a faithful recreation built with the Turin coachbuilder Superstile.
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The BMW Garmisch is a concept car designed and built by Bertone on the chassis of a BMW 2002 Tii.
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The BMW Garmisch is a concept car designed and built by Bertone on the chassis of a BMW 2002 Tii.
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