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Driving UK: BMW Design Chief on Oversized Grilles: 'You Can’t Please Everybody'
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12-29-2019, 11:26 AM | #2 |
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I guess we're still pretending that this is forward thinking design and not carefully crafted for a certain communist country.
Everything else is out in the open, cut the crap and just be honest. |
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12-29-2019, 01:59 PM | #3 |
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Well there is a fairly large segment who just buy BMW for the status symbol, not just in China, but globally. They probably want the enormous kidneys to loudly state they’re driving a BMW - dealer Client Advisor told me they’re selling a lot of X7s. Big grill doesn’t seem to be scaring those buyers away at all.
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12-29-2019, 03:33 PM | #4 |
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The nice thing about buying a car is there are many choices. So if he takes BMW in a direction I don't like, there are many other manufacturers to choose from. And it does sound like he is taking BMW in a direction I don't like.
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Yeah . Let's go for it..
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The new three series is nearly indistinguishable from a Lexus in the rear now. Unless I look for/see the roundel, my brain instantly thinks Lexus. The tail lights just scream Lexus and are such a disappointment.
The horror of the new front ends will not be discussed if those grills wind up on the new M3/4. |
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Feels a bit Chris Bangel again, we hate it but sales might prove us wrong...
Though now I actually do think X7 and LCI 7 grill looks "fitting", only took < 1 year vs I never liked E60 5 series... even today |
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The new BMW designs coming out look simply insecure and shout "look at me! Please!!". Not a good ethos.
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12-30-2019, 07:13 AM | #11 |
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E60 M5 still looks modern and sporting today, current 5er just looks large and boring. Bangle knew proportions and surface contours and how to make a good looking car.
Z4 M coupe will also go down as absolute classic of a car. |
12-30-2019, 09:10 AM | #12 |
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Exactly...everything designed under the Bangle era, except that weird 7-series, has aged remarkably well!! Characterful and well designed cars with classic BMW DNA
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It’s funny how the vast majority hated bangles designs back then but many have come to appreciate them a decade later
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The Grille on THE 7 further increases its status and identity.
It's perfect symmetry with THE X7 to let you know these are the top end of the luxury scale for BMW. I think it improves the car's appearance.
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Increase status and identity? BMW already had those things. I feel overdoing it reduces status and identity...
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Partially agree but also reminds me of when Audi transitioned over to the big front grill over a decade ago and stepped up its luxury status. Now you don’t even notice the grill...
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I do. To me, it is not just the size of the grill but the dimensions. It just looks garish. If I am going to pay that much money for a car, I want something classy.
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FWIW when I said you don’t even notice I was referring to Audi’s grill.
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