Dave Carp drawing the cockpit and the interior at his desk. Drawings by Mr Caro with and without panning shots (no sound). Panning shots of Mr Caro's desk as seen through the Design Department. Other drafts: digital sketching of the interior (concept). Exterior draft with paint brush (Nagashima). Pencil sketches and coloured drawings of the exterior. Discussing the materials charts, that is all the materials to be used within the interior. A. Baumeister with colleagues in the Design Department. The team checking out interior materials under various light conditions (Bordeaux trim). Virtual design: Mr Carp and Mr Steinle at the computer with virtual components, discussing matters with colleagues. Close-up on the monitor: kidney grille section. Working on the coupe table plan, dimensions being entered in lists. Making model components: close-up of the fender being milled and setting of time laps. Screen: animation and milling for time laps. Clay Model. Coupe (6 Series). Shapes re-worked (direction indicator recess, engine compartment and side-line). List handed over and model measured. Warm plasticine picked up and applied. Left rear direction indicator fitted in position. Surface film placed on to the left side section, cut into position and smoothened. Details and camera movement from the front around the finished clay model, Japanese version (no sound). Exterior model is checked, points are stuck on. Exterior model of coupe: Camera moves along various perspectives (no sound). Mr Carp, Mr Steinle and Bürkle at the cockpit discussing the model, applying tapes, placing the model in the seat box.

Boyke Boyer - Head of exterior design BMW. Now we're more or less through and we're near the end, as we can see. We now have a clear line and the next step is how to get the ideas we have in this design on to the road one day. I'm really looking forward to it - I really want to drive this car. You know, standing in front of the car and ... or let me put it differently: I open my garage in the morning and I see this great thing in front of me. That's really a wonderful experience every morning, saying: "Hey, come on out, let's go!". That's difficult to say - what's it like in your mind? It's just the feeling that we are creating a car beyond comparison, since we're following our very own concept. It isn't a Ferrari, it isn't a Porsche, and it doesn't look like any of those saloon coupes. It's simply different, but somehow it's also that traditional BMW. So we don't think we might be getting something wrong, since we're always proceeding from existing, specific standards. After all, it's our own tradition we're taking up once again. Of course - all the way to the end, when we've all reached the deadline and the engineers say: "Right, and now you've got to give us the facts, because there's no more we can do. " Up to that point we just keep on doing our thing, fine-tuning everything to the last detail. There are technical factors we have to respond to and there's also the question of taste: You know, what I liked half a year ago maybe isn't that good any more. So I have to say: "Come on, give me two more days, I've still got another solution ... " And then the engineers come along and say: "Okay, if you deliver the goods tomorrow we can still do it. " Then we just wiggle round a bit to the last minute, until the final point comes and that's it!.

RAMS/S: scanning. Test person (Mr Reger) drivers position. Evaluating data on the computer (Ms Graf). Over-shoulder and close-ups of a hand on the mouse/face and filmed monitor. Filmed monitor: arrangement of and access to various elements around the driver (gearshift, handbrake, ashtray, etc). Mr Ziebarth at the computer with various ergonomics models (closing the luggage compartment, filling the tank, shifting gears); over-shoulder and closeups of a hand on the mouse/face and filmed monitor. Mr Carp and Mr Ninic discussing the current status of control elements on the centre console looking at a model of the convertible. Virtual Vehicle and 3D. (partly no sound). Work on computer (also close-up: eyes, hand on mouse). Filmed monitor: dashboard and cross member. Filmed monitor: two-colour instrument panel. Filmed monitor: material mix using convertible as example. Filmed monitor: body shell of Convertible. Filmed monitor: body shell of Coupe. 3D Simulation. Putting on 3D glasses and observing cockpit (Benedikt Müller). Tracking shot: over-shoulder shot of filmed 3D /Projections. Engineering CAVE. Mr Bürkle and engineer discussing a possible modification to the car body. Engineering. Sample workstation in engineering department (various shots, also close-ups of the Coupe's body). Engineers at work (various shots, also close-up, and filmed monitors) on the Convertible roof. Building a Prototype ( 6 Series). Body-shell Work and Assembly. Research and Innovation Center (FIZ). Welding, semi-manual and manual. Full view and camera scan around the body-in-white and beneath the body (no sound), coupe. Fitting of /pedals, convertible, black. Fitting the cockpit. Fitting window: application of glue, coupe, white. Fitting windscreen: fitting in position and adjusting. Camera zooms up to engine marked "Prototype", view from above at two engines. Camera moves along engine block with axles, gearboxes, etc. Engine block with axles, transmission, etc pushed beneath prototype and fitted. Camera moves below prototypes (without engine), coupe, black. Soft roof: roof lowered and closed the last bit by hand (close function), convertible, black. Roof and windows electrically opened and closed, diagnostic result read off control unit, roof and windows opened and closed again. Employees at the plants familiarize themselves with the components in the shells of the new car models: manual locking, tacking and gluing. Manual welding in the hand-welding cabin on swivelling car body. Robot applying a weld-seam. Coordination with Suppliers at the Plant in Dingolfing. Establishing and checking the dimensions of the Feasecub model (various shots, also closeup). Suppliers installing their components on the Feasecub model to check inter-dimensional accuracy. Here: installation of the instrument panel.

Engine Production Plant Munich VB. Engine on belt. Assembly of chain wheels. Inserting pistons. Final assembly: attaching cover with BMW 1000. Serial Production Plant Dingolfing. Storage of coils. Unwinding coils. Punching. Crane shot through the hall, with ready-pressed components in skeleton containers, various shots. Car body shell on its way to paint shop (robot). Visual check of pressed parts. Assembly and welding of side components. Inserting front flap. Immersion bath. Car body moving through the different lacquering stations - grounding and lacquering. Car body moving through the drying powder clear lacquer station with closeups. Car body moving into baking oven. Production fine: assembly of interior, installation of interior (cable harness and cockpit). Various models coming off production line, turning round and being transported away; employees monitoring their numbers on computer screens. Steering wheel being fitted. "marriage" of undercarriage and engine with the car body. Assembling the under body. Pre-assembly of axle on production line. Finish belt: check of interior and doors, polishing. Test stand for wheel balancing, car drives up and test begins. View from below of test in progress, vehicle drives up, checks on monitor and then adjustment. Attachment of BMW emblem.