{"id":83958,"date":"2025-10-10T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83958"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:00:55","slug":"bmw-2002-turbo-hommage-concept-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83958","title":{"rendered":"Five Things You Probably Didn\u2019t Know About the BMW 2002 Turbo Hommage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BMW 2002 Turbo Hommage commanded headlines when it burst onto the scene at Villa d\u2019Esta in 2016. While nearly univerasally enjoyed, there were tons of little details about the car that went largely unreported on. Now, thanks to BMW By Design<\/a>, <\/em>one of Steve Saxty\u2019s excellent BMW books<\/a>, we have insight like never before into every aspect of the Hommage. It\u2019s just a sampling of what you can expect from these truly worthwhile reads. From hardware to special paint, there are at least five things you probably didn\u2019t know about this epic concept car.<\/p>\n

Redefining a \u201cParts Bin Car\u201d<\/h3>\n

Why make something from scratch when you have stuff that already does the job? BMW took a number of components directly off existing vehicles to bring the 2002 Turbo Hommage to life. \u201cWe used a BMW i8 door handle,\u201d a designer told Saxty, \u201cwhich allows this area to twist around behind it to form a flared rear fender.\u201d He\u2019s talking about the strakes running alongside the side of the car, and the \u201cpocket\u201d between where the handle is and the rear fender flare begins. More obviously, this design choice also allowed the Hommage to have, outwardly, no door handles. Underneath it all, of course, the Hommage is just an F87 M2. In fact, the concept was entirely drivable, primarily because BMW changed so little from the production car. The Hommage even contributed back to the parts bin. The Style 759M wheels the concept donned were eventually put into production.<\/p>\n

Bringing the Light<\/h3>\n

Piggybacking on the car\u2019s \u201cparts bin\u201d focus, the car borrowed its exterior lighting entirely from existing vehicles. But, of course, you couldn\u2019t really tell by looking at it. \u201cBehind the smoked lenses were BMW i3 rear lamps,\u201d a designer says to Saxty. In front, the 2002 Hommage\u2019s gold-painted lamps looked like nothing else on the road. But they were in fact derived from the contemporary MINI. The yellow hue pays homage to Le Mans race cars.<\/p>\n

Directionally Challenged<\/h3>\n

Speaking of lights, a cursory look at the 2002 Hommage may not immediately make it clear where the car\u2019s turn signals are. They\u2019re nestled above the two round headlights, \u201cfollowing the concept of the original 2002,\u201d a designer tells Saxty. \u201cThese worked well with our \u2018Precision and Poetry\u2019 design language.\u201d Interestingly, that design language debuted on the G11 7 Series \u2014 only for the next generation G70 7 Series to take it to the next level and split the headlights entirely. In a way, the 2002 Hommage did it first.<\/p>\n

Asymmetry is Beautiful<\/h3>\n

There\u2019s one area where the original silver\/blue 2002 Hommage is obviously asymmetrical. The \u201cturbo\u201d logo in the front air dam is mounted asymmetrically, just as it was on the original 2002 Turbo<\/a>. But there\u2019s a tinier detail that you might have missed, too. The door mirrors are asymmetrical, with one side sporting M colors and the opposite donning exposed traditional carbon fiber and paint.<\/p>\n

Racy Paint<\/h3>\n

The color on the original 2002 Turbo Hommage was dubbed \u201cSpace Race,\u201d a light blue metallic color. \u201cI had wanted a milkier grey,\u201d Alexey Kezha says. \u201cBut the blue represented a feeling like that of the custom end of the Porsche and BMW scene.\u201d Kezha designed the Hommage that actually made it to Concept production level. You may also remember an orange \u201cTurbomeister<\/a>\u201d car; that livery came later. In between the two, at Goodwood 2015, BMW added an M tricolor stripe to the paint and a cool \u201cturbo\u201d logo on the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BMW 2002 Turbo Hommage commanded headlines when it burst onto the scene at Villa d\u2019Esta in 2016. While nearly univerasally enjoyed, there were tons of little details about the car that went largely unreported on. Now, thanks to BMW By Design, one of Steve Saxty\u2019s excellent BMW books, we have insight like never before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}