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Future Vehicles Good, Bad or Ugly - Current and Future styling trends of BMW
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Replying to: designman (Aug 14, 2004 6:52 am) |
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" I've driven the big Lexus sedan and I think it ride like a boat. No connection to the road whatsoever. It's as if you ride in it rather than drive it. " darn right on that designman: yeah no matter what i still find the current 3er better looking. the sidelines on the new 3 start looking worse, rear end is just as ugly as ever. and bangle surely isnt the best interior designer out there at BMW. up until now the new 6 is the only bangle design thats truly appealing to me. i wont say its handsome, but cool, yeah id say that.
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Replying to: m4d_cow (Aug 14, 2004 9:09 am) A rousing endorsement of the 645i. (Its rear is a dead ringer for the old Chrysler Cirrus.) |
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"(Its rear is a dead ringer for the old Chrysler Cirrus.)" The problem is the Japanese are all copying BMW. I said to my wife the other day, look at that ugly color on that 3 series. To my surprise, it was an Avalon. I just saw a rear view. I can't believe how Toyota copied the rear end of the current E46. People have compared the 6 series to the Cirrus, Sebring and the like, yet when you see it in person, you know BMW struck a home-run with it. It is a gorgeous car - only a person who hates BMW cars would say it looks like a Chrysler. The new rumored 3 series pictures are gorgeous also. The only tweak I would make to the styling is the front-headlights. My thought is the creases are meant to give some brand identity across the 3 series line including the X3.
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"-only a person who hates BMW cars would say it looks like a Chrysler." Wrong! I OWN a BMW and I speak the truth about the 645i's hiney. |
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Replying to: kdshapiro (Aug 14, 2004 12:44 pm) Now tell me that you think an Avalon (post #353)looks like a 3 series more than the new 645's rear light treatment looks like the Dodge Stratus (or Chrysler Cirrus as above)? BTW, I too own a BMW ;o).
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"and I speak the truth about the 645i's hiney" Well everybody here speaks *their* own version of the truth. 
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Replying to: cheezhed (Aug 14, 2004 3:27 pm)
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Replying to: kdshapiro (Aug 14, 2004 4:28 pm) BTW, another point along the purpose of this board is that the front of the new 5's and 6's resemble Pontiacs, unfortunately. This statement also has more credence than your post (#353) about an Avalon's back lights resembling (therefore copying) the 3 series. Ridiculous, as it was to assume every critic of a BMW is a BMW hater.
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Replying to: cheezhed (Aug 14, 2004 7:07 pm) As far as Pontiac resembling BMW, it's Pontiac that has altered the front of it's grill not BMW. BMW has essentially had the same front-end, albiet with different thematics over the last 14 or so years. I never assumed all critics are haters, but I think the critics look for this stuff. In my eyes there is no mistaking a BMW for a Pontiac or a Chrysler. Others my see it differently. Unfortunately as good as some photographs are the medium sometimes distorts. |
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