How I Designed...The BMW X5! Ep.4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Hi.
Thanks so much for watching. Today, I'm going to be sketching and talking you through how we designed the BMW X5. We were given only SIX WEEKS to go from conception to a finished product, which is completely unheard of. Watch the full video to see how we managed to pull it off!
Enjoy,
Frank.
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Somebody pay this man his royalties
PAY THIS MAN THE ROYALTIES!!!
Give them the message
Give this man his royalties! 😂Anyone else seen the video of the man on the threatening to blow up bwm sites on the train?
I very much glad to hear that the talented Frank Stephenson has finally received his royalties for his work on the BMW X5. It’s was a great decision for BMW to take our demands seriously and not let things go explosive…
Very curious to hear you thoughts on the new 4 series
Ahhahahhahahhhahahhaahhaahahaha
A disgrace basically!
I often see some dudes claiming that "It's a throwback to the first bimmers".
Yes, but no.
Are the headlights a circle? No.
So why should the kidneys be as long as the front end?
Organic body form but with an aggressive angular grille. Bizarre mix.
I don’t think he would trash other designers work.
Pierre Colombo It doesn’t have to have a circular headlights to be a throwback car.
Can they...hire you back? The recent BMWs are kind of bland.
Kind of shit
bland and outrageously gaudy, somehow
I'd hope they do so
Mind HunTer pretty much all the bulbous and bloated designs that came in the 2000's. The X5 and 840/850 and Z8 are amazing designs. Boxier and more understated and elegant. Id have to look
True.
They have got 24 hours to respond
Once you have finished going through your designs, I would love to see a breakdown of your thoughts on the newer BMW styling and comment on why designers may have made certain decisions. Thanks for sharing your processes.
Q & A at the end of the first series
@@FrankStephensondesign Especially the new BMW 4 series please. Just starting to get into car design and love you video.
Probably listen more carefully the things he said after 6:15 and you can probably understand what they were trying to do with the new 4 series.
Amazing design. Still the most beautiful suv ever made
@@zaheerkader7426
It's amazing
But the most beautiful SUV's goes for the 100 & 200 series Land Cruiser
I'm shocked an Asian manufacturer could come up with such an amazing design it's almost perfect
Its funny how a design that is ~20 years old can look so fresh still. Absolute testament to Frank's level of skill in his job
i‘m sorry this „design“ looked dated the day it was born. such a hideous car
"fresh" 😂 It looks good but definitely not fresh
It looks like shit
@@South4153 nonsense
@@South4153 you’re a fool, x5 is a great design
the guy who designed the mini and the x5 needs his royalties.
My moms X5 took me to my first day of kindergarten and my last day of college, truly a lifetime car 250k still thriving
Is she rich
So you're responsible for the most beautiful SUV I've ever seen, wow!!
Cheers Buster! 💥👍
Okay now I'll never complain about my assignment deadlines🙈😂
I may be THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED! He did the with a BIC PEN?! Do you understand what he just did?! I. CAN. APPRECIATE. THAT.
Sean, I’ve always felt that if a designer needs a computer to deliver his idea, he ain’t really a designer. If a race car driver needs electronic aids to put in a fast lap, he ain’t really a race car driver. 😉
@@FrankStephensondesign Thank you for your contribution to history.
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@@SajtosNokedli The man is gifted.
Bic pans are the best pens, trust me. They scrollin' so smooth over the paper
Dear Frank, thank you so much for becoming a content creator, this has become my favourite channel, not just because of your talent but also the stories connected to your beautiful creations.
Julian potatoe Thank you for watching
Hi Frank,
Just found your channel. I was obsessed with cars since I was born, and the X5 was the coolest car of my childhood - a black one was frequently parked at a parking lot close to our flat. I would always convince my grandma to take a walk with me, so I can take a look at the car! I am 20 now, and even though it's unlikely I will ever design cars (I am studying Computer Science), I started working as an intern at a BMW plant. It's crazy that you influenced my life this much. Keep up the good content, we are eager to see more!
Curious what generation of x5 is your favorite? E53, E70?
@@bonda_racing3579 Honestly it's the F15. Such a beautiful and well-proportioned design, just like the F01 (another one of my favourites).
So you are the mastermind behind it! Thank you for one of the best designs in the SUV realm. Love my E53 to bits. Great video!
If I ever have the chance I'd be happy to buy you a round of your preferred beverage!
Much appreciated!
@@FrankStephensondesign Hey Frank, I am a car design student at Coventry University and I find the design of the X5 inspirational. Would it be possible to share some of your old work? Sketches, renders, anything you can and are comfortable sharing with us? I think it would make a great video
I love the BMW X5 So Much. You designed a masterpiece❤❤
Going to take a look at the GREAT BMW X5!’ A 2002 with Frank’s design. It’s TIMELESS!! Thank you frank 🙏
UPDATE : BOUGHT IT ITS AMAZING! FULL TINTED WINDOWS, black on steel grey! The lines are amazing ! 20 inch 4.6is wheels, amazing black leather interior!
E53 best X5 to date, way ahead of its competition in its day. You did a good job Sir
Are you serious? The E53 is in my opinion the worst BMW ever, closely pursued by the E65.
@@theo7709 I struggle to agree with that, did you forget the existence of the i3 and i8? I mean sure the i8 has some looks going for it but the i3 lacked in all departments.
@@theo7709 dont talk rubbish, e53 best x5 ever in looks and reliability, wish they made them as good now.
@@MrKeefrichards my opinion doesnt have to be yours, I dont like the look at all
I owned one of these cars for a few years. The BMW X5 E53 is an amazing Car. It looks like a BMW from every single angle. Also its super reliable. Thnk you mister Stephenson for Designing THE Classic BMW SUV. (Im German so sorry for my bad grammar)
I love that original X-5. Those beautiful tires are wider than eternity.
Frank Stepherson, is the “OG” Designer 👨🏻🎨 of the modern classic 1999 BMW X5 SAV 🚙 with matching Motorcycle 🏍 Trailer. Stepherson and Bangle had it right in just 6-weeks! Adrian van Hooydonk has seriously made a mess of things, BMW exterior designs have gone south ever since. As a Creative Director and a BMW M4 and X4 fan, Frank, you had it right 👍🏻 back in 1999!!!
I can only say thank you! You granted the world with one of the best looking vehicles you can see on the road today!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!!
Thanks for designing one of the best SUV's ever produced! Owned 4 of these and my parents had one when they first came out back in 2001 and I have so many fond memories about this car.
Thanks for sharing!
Such a great era, that X5 was so nice
the E53 x5 was truly nice at its time you did amazing job my faver X5 is E70
Hi Frank , I'm deeply humbled to own your masterpiece '01.
I actually think the first gen X5 is actually quite "timeless" in a way... The design was a good balance between looking sporty, upmarket, tough and slightly understated. . .it's definitely aged well in my books, especially compared to the Benz ML of that generation
true, the ml can be quite ugly specially those with grey plastic bumpers, looking like a household appliance in a way
In my opinion your first design was the best, thanks for sharing!
What a fantastic design e53 is! I love the e70 just as much, but the newer ones... no. Thank you big time for sharing this Frank!
to understand how big a deal this is, you have to understand that the BMW X5 is widely regarded to have started the modern SUV revolution. being able to say you designed it is a flex.
it still looks fresh, great job
I´ve never liked all the SUV´s that came from USA and Japan, but I still remember what I thought when I saw this X5 for the first time - ´WOW! BMW nailed it in first attempt!´. Fantastic job! :-)
I own a black E53 D, I've had it for ages. When I drive it, the world slows down. It looks beautiful, it drives, handles and does everything beautifully, and will go almost anywhere. The fold down rear door is so handy. The straight 6 turbo feels like it could rev to infinity, and pulls like a truck, yet at idle it sounds so content. What a great job you have done.
Hello Mr. Stephenson, I've been translating your videos and adding Mandarin subtitles. I really enjoyed working on them. You seem really fun and genuine :)
Many thanks, much appreciated
A beautiful car i love it. F*** the ml and the gle. The x5 is king and the first one was absolutely stunning
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 speechless, outstanding, a divine touch
I’ve got a 2005 X5 Imola Red Sport 3.0 and it’s design is timeless. Thanks for designing such a nice looking SAV that stands apart even today .
It’s Awesome 😎
Excellent channel whauw really impressed 😍😍
Great car. I have one from 2002, and i still love the car.
Have 220k miles on my '03 4.4 sport package. No intentions of letting it go. It is a home run IMHO.
Bravo good sir. 👏
Cheers James! 👍
I am extremely curious what is your take on new BMW designs. Especially the 7, X7 and the new 4 series. I currently drive a BMW 3 series E90 and I would love to hear about how it was designed. Love the idea of the channel. Greetings from Poland and massive respect for you sir.
I know i'm not him but the new 7 series and the X7 are both really nice looking to me, the new 4 series is looking weird but i think it will look better once it grows on us.
Greetings from a e91 driver.
@@lazar2175 greetings E91 brother
Thank you , I am taking notes on what you all would like next, thanks for watching!
Just a guess but I anticipate that he actually likes X7.
e90 gang
Could you Imagine being on a flight, chilling next to the guy who designed a car you could buy not much longer after? Like Imagine being like "Those headlights should be slightly closer together" and bam you just helped design your own car lol
lol that’s cool to think about
He would of being flying first class and not amongst the peasants
@@MrIrish1 Let’s just say your in first class too
@@MrIrish1 Don't think so... German companies don't fly staff in business much less external contractors
I have a 2005 X5 3.o and absolutely love the design of this SUV the lines have been stolen by every other car company in the world witch in my humble opinion is the greatest expression of appreciation... Loved the car so much my wife had to have a 2013 X5 3.5i .. The newer models have seemed to lost that touch of the original designs... Great videos and I thank you for what have given the world of cars .
Looking at every other company's SUV attempts this one stands out incredibly well to this day. Very much its own design but still very true to the brand and style. Frank you make it look easy.
Hey Frank - would love for these videos to be a bit longer! It's fascinating to watch you work and I (and I think many of your subscribers would agree) would love to have a bit more to digest, especially when it comes to your career at McLaren as well as the MC12, and FXX. Thanks!
More to come!
This is amazing, I dream of becoming a car designer one day, if I become a fragment of this man i would be glad.
A friend worked at a supplier to the first generation X5 in the Spartanburg area. Cool seeing how quickly the design came to be, and was correct from the start. Thanks for posting.
The BMW era pre X3 in the early 2000s/late 1990s was such an era in history, most people thought SUVs or "SAVs' as BMW calls them would water down the brand's history but it did the opposite. It transformed BMW/Porsche/Mercedes to manufacturers who produced high-volume vehicles instead of niche, country-club attending peoples cars.
This is so inspiring! This guy seems so cool and easy, so focused on the task he was given and he seems really humble as he recounts this incredible design experience - I have always loved the muscular beauty of the Mk. I X5 and so it is absolutely fascinating to watch this guy talk about it, and even sketch the thing in free hand as he's speaking! Fantastic stuff :D
I've owned the last two X5 models, the original is still my favorite in terms of design. Great work! and thank you for posting this video.
This car came out when I was about 7 or 8 and even then I knew this was something special. One of the best looking bmw's ever
bmws of that era are timeless, they all look so good.
The original BMW X5 had such a handsome, understated look.
Didn’t age well
@@kells77 You're kidding
motosonic no other looks really old now the original x5
No it didn't. The grille on the front makes it look like Adolf Hitler. A Reich monstrosity
With a BIC pen and a A4 format paper we can do magic, then we let the computer design programs do the rest, but all began with a piece of paper and a BIC pen. :)
Which model BIC pen is that?
the original x5 had bags of presence and a stance more akin to an M car.... everything about that design was spot on...... joy to listen to you thoughts Frank. truly..... its between you and paul bracq for me at the end of the day.....
Such a classic! Love it
Yep, original X5 still stands up as a great design now 👍
It always was an abomination, it still is. The second x5 looks a lot better.
I honestly don't think I've ever heard anyone say the first gen X5 looks good.
@@mabrokenleg2388 Looks better but still a ugly piece of useless SUV shit.
Shibe i love the first gen X5 hate all other gens...
The Original X5 didn't age well at all.
Man I miss the old headlights design, every bimmers now have angry looking headlamps.
it looks like they’re ditching the angel eyes altogether with the new 3 series :(
@@willfudge8131 Yea, have you seen the new 5 series? They completely ditched them there.
@@honeybadger4095 not a fan of the L shaped rear lights too. I think they butchered the whole design language
They have had angry headlights or angry front of the car for 60 years
In high school, my friend and I took my broken L322 Range Rover to the mechanic. We came outside to the most beautiful and rewarding loaner car ever - an Estorilblau 4.4iS X5. I will never get over those hips.
This is the coolest thing!! Thank you for sharing. There are so many cool stories around car design but we rarely get to hear them
Producers: We want you to make an iconic new design in no time.
Frank: give me few hours and your cheapest pen n paper.
I love these videos! Might I suggest for future content; your favorite car designs ever, the future direction of car design, thoughts on current car design, thoughts on all generations of Miata, Porsche 911, Corvette, etc. Keep it up!
Thanks for your thoughts! We are planning to do a series on 'Frank's Dream Car Garage' ...
Whenever I see one on the road I smile and think this guy sure is creative. You sir are a idol to me thank you for sharing this
We had a BMW X5 2006. That suv was truly awesome. Love the styling of that vehicle. It was totaled,wife cried when the tow truck took it.
Did you ever get your royalties from the mini and the x5?
Of course.
@@FrankStephensondesignwe can all sleep easy now
@@FrankStephensondesign Thank god for that, the BMW showrooms live another day
@@FrankStephensondesignbro you had a super villain on your team! He was on a train making sure you got your royalties💀😂🙏🏻
He’s good Jason.
Bizarre that there’s no mention of you , Frank, on Wikipedia when it comes to the E53. I’d sort that anomaly if I were you since the E53, imo, is one of the greatest pieces of BMW designs since the 2002. It looked ‘right’ at inception and not only remains so but increasingly looks ‘right’ as time wears on: shaming the over-styled and obese ‘F-series’ generation in particular. One of your best capolavori....
thank you Frank, X5 was a huge deal in the car design industry.
I'm mesmerized watching every video! Thank you for sharing all these thoughts with us
Great to watch these and so interesting listening to the story behind each design.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You managed to create one of the most beautiful SUV’s ever
Apart from the electronics and mecanic issues with the X5 The design is just Beautiful Timeless yet Still Modern to these days. Epic
Thanks Frank for sharing this video. Really appreciated your work where BMW got their very first SUV.
When I was 13 years old I sketched a drawing of how I envisioned the first bmw suv would look like in middle school. And when the x5 came out it looked almost identical to my sketching of my suv even down to the shape of the headlights. Till this day I’m proud of that.
An E53 4.8iS with 20 inch alloys is still one of the best looking SUVs on the road. My opinion.
Totally agree here 👍 Sterling grey does the job as well
You're the man!!!! I can't get over how talented you are and how many iconic cars you've designed
Brilliance expressed with a 20-cent pen! (Bic-cause you can! )
Always thought that first gen X5 was just E46 touring with high ride height.
X5 was based off the 5 series and x3 is based off the 3 series
@@tito_ae8689 you are right, but he was talking about design details. Take the headlights, for example, they look like the ones from the E46 facelift with the turn signals pointing upwards and the tail lights look like the ones from the E46 touring
They share the same front headlights but it's mostly based off from the E39 5 Series
it was e39 5 series touring based. so was the design
With German cars you always have a design language that goes throughout the classes. Korean and generally asian carmakers could not keep a line up until recently. If you look at two Hiundays from 10 years ago you couldn't say it was made by the same company only by looking from outside.
I still think it’s the best looking SAV on the road. I own an 04 X5 with the v8 engine, and it’s the best car I’ve ever owned. it still looks modern and timeless
Modern and timeless? The first gen X5 is one of the most outdated looking BMWs on the road
Sanjay Patel It looks way better than a 2020 X5 and the handling is real and weighty and the car is planted. All around a beast of a car and reliable too
never knew you were the one who designed that x5 model, its one of my personal favorite designs of all time ngl
To this day it's still the most elegant SUV of BMW.
Thanks for taking us along your X5 story. I am driving an X7 and I often think it is a refreshed version of the X5. You did set the base for the entire X-range of BMW!
Great video! Amazing and awesome to see you at work, thanks for sharing this. The design of that car really was something special, it was a total game changer that helped usher in a new look of modern design into the SUV/car market, and it has aged far better than many, if not all, of it's contemporaries.
Being a big fan of that era of BMW design, I'm curious, was the E53 X5 design based at all on the E39 Touring, or vise versa?
I loved this car as a kid, was very happy to see you designed it after I got into your channel
I was 12 when my dad picked up the 4.6is. Truly a beast and one of my all time favorites. Thank you for your talent, it’s unfortunate at 29 I’ve lost my fire for bmws but I will never forget the myriad of e46/e39s I got to drive in my teens. Bmw at their peak.
I love the x5, (the one you designed) and what's your opinion on the 6 wheel one that's being built
Q & A at the end of the first series
@@FrankStephensondesign SIR I LOVE THE E65!! Looks so cool and amazing.
(In my opinion) SUV's are a bit pointless, especially sports models, such as the X5. Despite the X5 starting the trend for truly sporting SUV's, I feel as if this is one of the most handsome BMW's ever made. The proportions are just so perfect, despite the car being gargantuan; it feels rather masculine and muscular but not in an over bearing Hummer or G Wagen sense. Still, I'd rather have a 5 series estate.
estate is for mums, my opinion
E53 x5 is not SUV its called SAV
@@amcomin4you LOL What?
@@amcomin4you that makes you a good feminist. Estates handle better, are safer, are more economical, they don't fuck up a road's visibility -- they're altogether the better and nicer package. Kedos to you for thinking that women are smarter than men, even though I'd not always agree
@@hkkkbguhvatila4297 SAV is just marketing gobblydygood. Or is there a car on the market that is not used for "activities"?
One of my favourite BMW designs ever..... It looks like a tank but in a good and stunning way👏👏
Frank. Inspirational Channel you have here. I graduated with a car design degree but never pursued the career. 7 years later you have rekindled my love of sketching again! Thx for that
I cant imagine how you felt when the 3 guys in front of you were the creator of THE Miura
While watching Chasing Perfect it was goosebumps all along
Thank you!
I always thought the wheel width was HUGE in these cars.
It is, unnecessarily so, it looked stupid from the off.
I love and always have loved my 2013 x5 thank you for making that design, It is a beautiful stances and perfect pretty care to look at !
Thank you so much to you and the whole BMW design team including Mr. Bangle.. Your creation keeps me happy every morning I look at it for 3 years already! I still remember the day when I first saw a silver E53 in a motor-journal, that sense of beauty, the exquisiteness, the panache and of course the flamboyance that vehicles have carried with them kept me dreaming of having it acquired one day and I did it..)))
This and the Range Rover are quite literally the only SUV’s that I can get along with.
Audi Q5?
Suabru Forester
Volvo xc90 looks really good too for me
Surely the mighty Land Cruisers as well?
@@joonakarkkainen26 no
3:15 I don't know about Hofmeister's Kinks, but it's definitely supposed to mean 'Hofmeister Knick' :-)
A kink is the same as a knick. They mean the same thing.
A kink is a bend and a knick... is also a bend - he just said it in english instead of german.
You are a living legend! Thanks for those beauties.
I press this side frame now at Gstamp in Union S.C. This video was a wealth of knowledge to help me do my job better than ever before and also to respect the design as much as the actual production of this outstanding product.