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Future Vehicles Good, Bad or Ugly - Current and Future styling trends of BMW
728 messages, Last post on May 30, 2007 at 9:05 PM
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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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then again, noone can deny the fact that a lot of brands are copying BMWs, its just their own way to somehow tweak up their sales. btw pontiacs are copying bmws front ends, not the other way round. does chrysler have that weird boxy trunk also? i dont think so carnaught: looks and beauty are relative, different comments in different minds out there, like cheez said "beauty is in the eye of the beholder. i own a 330i myself and i dont like the new 5er and the future 3er myself
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