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BMW 7 Series with Lancia rear lights: "Even better than the original"

2022-04-11T13:16:32.165Z


BMW 7 Series with Lancia rear lights: "Even better than the original" Created: 04/11/2022, 15:02 By: Sebastian Oppenheimer The fourth generation of the BMW 7 Series came onto the market in 2001 – the rear design in particular was highly controversial. Now a strange modification has appeared on the net. Poland – It's always such a thing with design – especially in the automotive industry. If th


BMW 7 Series with Lancia rear lights: "Even better than the original"

Created: 04/11/2022, 15:02

By: Sebastian Oppenheimer

The fourth generation of the BMW 7 Series came onto the market in 2001 – the rear design in particular was highly controversial.

Now a strange modification has appeared on the net.

Poland – It's always such a thing with design – especially in the automotive industry.

If the manufacturers change too little for new models, it means: boring, unimaginative, unimaginative.

If a carmaker takes a completely new approach, it can quickly upset fans of the brand.

The most recent example is the huge BMW kidney in portrait format, which triggered a veritable shitstorm on the internet.

But more than 20 years ago there was a big outcry in the BMW fan community: namely in 2001, when the then new 7-series generation (E65) was launched.

And just such a model has been modified by an owner - photos of the curious conversion have now appeared on Facebook, as reported by 24auto.de.

A BMW 7 Series (E65) with Lancia Delta taillights - pictures of this curious conversion have now appeared on Facebook.

© Facebook (Cezary Mielnicki)

BMW 7 Series with Lancia rear lights: "Even better than the original"

It was above all the so-called "bangle butt" of the E65-7 series that made many fans livid.

The rear of the luxury sedan looked extremely jagged, the trunk lid as if put on.

At that time, Chris Bangle (65), whose name probably still makes one or the other BMW fan blush in the face, was responsible for design at BMW.

Incidentally, the controversial rear end was later significantly defused in terms of design during a facelift.

With its extreme design, the BMW 7 Series of the E65 generation caused a stir among many brand fans.

©BMW

BMW 7 Series with Lancia rear lights: Photos of a curious conversion have appeared on Facebook

Now, photos of a pre-facelift 7 Series have surfaced on Facebook, showing a curious modification: the rear lights have been replaced with examples of a third-generation Lancia Delta.

It is not known whether this idea was born out of necessity, because the old lamps were broken and the originals were no longer available, or whether it was simply an attempt at beautification.

The BMW with the Lancia Delta rear lights certainly doesn't look as strange as the recently appeared replica of a Lamborghini Reventón - one of the commentators under the Facebook post is actually quite taken with the look: "It's still better than the original," writes he.

Another user thinks the conversion is “chic”.

Another does not share these positive views and rhetorically asks the reason for the action: "Because it wasn't ugly enough...?"

The third generation of Lancia Delta was built from 2008 to 2014.

© Lancia

BMW 7 Series with Lancia rear lights - the tailpipes are not original either

The modified 7 Series isn't the only curious BMW conversion making the rounds on social media - a BMW Z3 recently went up for sale, with a very different car under its skin.

However, not only the taillights have been modified on the BMW 7 Series that appeared in Poland – the tailpipes are also a retrofit solution.

With the original E65, the tailpipes were normally not visible.

However, who looks at the tailpipes with these taillights?

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Source: merkur

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