The BMW design exercise in 2001 was called Project Warwick.
http://www.myaustinhealey.com/project_warwick.html
It is my understanding that it was a half scale sized model, not a
functional vehicle.
Chris
www.myaustinhealey.com
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On 13/07/2011, at 8:35 AM, Jean Caron <vintage_roadster_restoration@hotmail.com
> wrote:
> I don't know if any of you recall the model that BMW did several
> years ago,
> around the early 2000. There was one photo of it published in the
> Healey
> Marque at some point. Anyway I contacted their design house in
> Southern
> California about a year ago to see if I could obtain other photos of
> that
> model design. What I found out is that it was never a "real car"
> just a design
> done on computer and amazingly no one working there now remember it,
> or at
> least that is what they claimed. When it does not go any further
> than a
> project, it is quickly discarded it appears. They also design
> furniture,
> office space etc at that location, so it is very possible that it is
> long
> forgotten.
>
> Jean Caron
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:54:10 -0700
>> From: cnaarndt@gmail.com
>> To: michael.bowie@fivepointsix.com
>> CC: healeys@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] New Healey
>>
>> Michael,
>>
>> Look at the date on the article... 5 1/2 years ago and still
>> nothing. I
>> wouldn't hold my breath.
>>
>> If they did with the Big Healey what they did with the Mini Copper,
>> it
> might
>> be something worth while.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Curt
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Michael Bowie <
>> michael.bowie@fivepointsix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Anybody heard of this yet?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
> http://wagons.autoblog.com/2006/01/29/details-emerging-of-austin-healey-revi
>>> val/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Bowie
>>>
>>> 1954 BN1
>>>
>>> Boerne, Tx.
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