Wann begann BMW die Entwicklung des 5er E60?

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When the E39 development was completed around 1992, the tool release was carried out and the pre-series production started, the Desinger and engineers, because E60 first “thought” and the “Packet” then waited for the start of production of the E39 and the first customer reactions and then the MOPF/Facelift of the E39 with the coming E60 in the eye. On the facelift of the E39 around 1998, the E60 decided thing was the drive technology in part already in the E39 MOPF and it was because prototype construction and testing then you need 2 years until the car “stands” then comes the tool production or tool release and the pre-series based on manufactory. The plans and notes of the E60 migrated from the table to the vaults or shredders and the plans of the F10 were approached. But during the time, the same people also made other BMW at the same time, so to speak, they always keep all the “models” in the pepline at the same time because they have platform overlaps.

Because the badest job the designers have the need to know what could be “mode” in 10 to 15 to years and they then have to “box” their great design against the other departments because each department has other requirements and lastly comes the cost controller and puts everything that costs “too much”. At the end, the elegant design piece becomes a non-shaped soap because the design must also work. What is explained is why after the descent of the Reitzle the Reitzle always looked “slower” the Reitzle had taste and because designers kept his back free. And the Reitzle drove as well as racers and screwed on cars….

And if you have bad luck comes after the tool release of the board and want a chrome-gloss cover bar on the cooler grill because the car otherwise looks too ashamed/cheapy and all departments need to spare a few cents again. And as a result of the action “turn” the cars at the Elchtest around because a few euros per car were saved in the chassis and there was no time to test this before. Or even the same executive board finds that the coming top class is far too expensive/warming (ergo unprofitable) and is too “unsporty” or fat and because customers probably don’t get good even though market research has lowered millions of amounts to determine the customer potential accurately. Stamps the post-developments and wants to have the upper class implemented as a flawed middle class in record time. In the crash test, one finds that there was a programming error in the computer program and one has to build up the middle class with a new front-carriage platform even though the production tools were already in work and one could no longer change the outer skin. In the end, the debacle cost more than a complete new construction, but the Chairman of the Board of Management went privately Oldtimer and Porsche. Next catastrophe was that the new top class on the export market and because super-rich was not good and many were too small, just as it had been determined by market research years before. In addition, the car was “bad” or the worst of the class even Lexus and VW was better and pulled over the old customers of the top class. What makes the board of directors he builds the old upper class into a luxury car to fill the market gap from “top” although the in-house market research has led to a different or more discreet approach. And also this luxury class flopped the super rich bought a VW in the Bentley costume or a BMW in the Rolls Royce costume. The existing customers could not afford the “Unding” or that was too pompous, baroque, poppy, monkey or Schrill.

Since 2000, development cycles have been possible by 3 years or the owners/returners want to do so in large complex cars, they still need 4-5 years. Up to the 90s, the prototype had to be on the go for at least 2-3 years to produce some secure forecasts for 10-12 years and get all possible and impossible bugs. Today, there are virtual prototypes that simulate and cars stand on hydropulser roads in weather chambers and wind down 1000km/day from Siberia to Africa or even hours of continuous gas until what breaks or explodes.

In addition, a “new” car is rarely completely redeveloped and the car manufacturers have already invested the last decades million engineering hours in the foundations. In the meantime, more budget for electronics and software will be used in the KFZ development than for hardware.