BMW exhibits evolution of 6-series

Germans! Go to the BMW Museum! Immediately! Well, not immediately. Wait till the 28th.  

Why? Because, close internet friends, from October 28 till September 2012, BMW is displaying a real-life timeline of 14 big coupes and convertibles from 1937 to 2011. As you'd imagine, it includes some kit over-endowed with awesomeness.

Click on to see the metal...

The exhibit starts with this - the 327 Sports Convertible and 327/28 Sports Coupé. It Carlsberg designed cars, they'd probably look worse than these.

Here's the rag-top's rump.

Then comes the post-war BMW 502 Coupé and Convertible, both of which rub flanks with the chubby 503 Coupé.

Here is its steering wheel.

Representing the sixties there's the Bertone-designed 3200 CS. Important thing, this - it's a "New Class" car, which meant that it got a four-pot M10 engine, fully independent suspension, MacPherson struts and disc brakes up front. That's quite the techgasm for its era.

Then comes the 3.0 CSi and that rather lovely fully open glasshouse. Penned by Karmann and made famous by the tremendous racer built for the European Touring Car Championship, this put BMW on the sporty map...

As did the E24 635CSi, which also makes an appearance. Though, in standard flavour, it was definitely more of GT. The M-sport version did get an adapted version of the awesome M1 racer's engine, though. But it was still a wallowy old hector. Crucially however, it had a pointy sharknose and pillarless windows, both of which win.

Then there's this - the 8 Series. Which has a Richard Hammond-shaped exponent. See his car here.

After that, there are these. The second-gen 6 Series, a new BMW 6 Series Convertible and the new BMW 6 Series Coupé, which was unveiled this year. Snazzy.