The Next BMW Art Car!

So for as long as I have been in love with BMWs,  I have been in love with their long-standing (I believe almost 30 year) tradition of the Art Car. From Roy Lichtenstein to Alexander Calder to Andy Warhol, some amazing artists have produced some of the most intriguing and flat out coolest car liveries ever, and of course they grace the skin of some of BMW's finest "M" cars. I had an earlier post covering most of them. The latest one has just been released, and although at first glance it seemed to overplay modern generic graphic design cues about speed and the passion of driving blah blah, it is quickly growing on me. And of course it is on one of BMW's Sebring-prepped M3 GT2s, very suitable given the heritage of the previous art cars. Artist/designer Jeff Koons is responsible for the latest installment:

A short video covering the release:

BMW Art Cars

I have never been able to get over just how awesome BMW's Art Car project is. Established in 1975 by race car driver Herve Poulain, the debut car was painted by the awesomely incredible Alexander Calder, of whom I am a big big fan. There have been 17 cars so far, ranging from the incredible 3.0 CSL to the incredible 850 CSi. They are all incredible! The different periods represented by each artist, the different styles, they all serve to create one of the greatest automobile collections of all time. Other big names include Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ken Done, and Robert Rauschenberg, among many others.