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    BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
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    Image of CJinSD CJinSD
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    Is the 2.8 liter engine really a 2.8 liter engine, or is it a 3 liter like all the ones that have been in every US market 2.8 badged BMW since the E90 came out?

    BMWs are for a certain class of people. A really tacky class of people.

    I saw a current 6-series on chrome scrapers that were at least 24 inches in diameter yesterday. At first I thought it was the ultimate tribute to current V8 BMWs' non-existent resale value, but then I noticed that it was really a new BMW M6 riding on wheels that would look silly on a Nissan Armada. Somehow making ugly cars full of electronic toys has put their buyer demographic into ACORN staffer territory.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/15/09

    @CJinSD: The "2.8" is the opposite of the Ford "5.0" (302).
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    The area immediately over the headlights reminds me of Andy Rooney's eyebrows.

    That, and from the 3/4 view, it appears to have a slight underbite.
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    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    Aw, cute - even the wheels look like little snowflakes...
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    Image of eggwich del fiero eggwich del fiero
    09/15/09

    @weatherman: I like them, too.
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    Image of dal20402 dal20402
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    This brown is like the burnt orange of about 2004: a color that people will ooh and aah over now, that will look horrendously dated in three years and depress resale value.
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    09/15/09

    @dal20402: I see your point. I've seen brown, yellow, and green come and go too many times to feel as young as I do. I've even seen God-foresaken purple. But these days I see too damned much grey, silver, dark grey, metallic black, and just plain black. Almost anything might be a relief. Mind you I also bought a Habenero Red car in 2007 for exactly this reason, yet the no-color cars still proliferate.
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    FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway promoted this comment CJinSD was starred CJinSD was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/15/09

    @CJinSD: First, I read "foreskin purple" and immediately assumed there were some circulation problems in someone's downstairs.

    More to the point, this is why my family has two gloss-(non-metallic)-light-blue cars.
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    Image of TTopJohn TTopJohn
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    Hard to get a sense of how big the X1 is, but it sure doesn't look any smaller than the X3. Is it? Or is is the same size as the current X3 with the expectation that the X3 gets bigger in its next iteration or goes away completely?
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    09/16/09

    @TTopJohn: Suppposedly 175 inches long, 4 1/2 shorter than the X3. At least one of these cars is pointless...
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    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    And the difference between this and the X3 is...?
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    What's the antonym to Browntastic?
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    09/15/09

    @engineerd: Crappy.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/15/09

    @engineerd: craptacular
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    Do you see, Larry?

    Do you you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?!
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    09/15/09

    @Mad_Science: I sure do. Apparently, you end up driving what amounts to an overpriced, over-ugly, under-reliable Forester.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/15/09

    @Mad_Science: You start yodelling and taking care of animals.
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    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    "Schifahrvergnugen"
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    09/15/09

    @Ash78: Shadenfarhren.. er.. nugen.
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    Image of SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R)
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    Does someone have the official date of the return of Metallic Poo as a trendy color?
    Was it the auction of Steve McQueen's Ferrari? [jalopnik.com]
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    Mad_Science promoted this comment Edited by SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) at 09/15/09 4:18 PM SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was starred SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was unstarred
    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    European UPS drivers are lucky.
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    Image of Jagvar Jagvar
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    BMW already makes a perfectly capable 3-Series wagon. Isn't this redundant?
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    09/15/09

    @Jagvar: BMW seems intent on filling every niche, even if they overlap.
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    Image of Amalgamated Stainless Headers, est.1978 Amalgamated Stainless Headers, est.1978
    09/15/09

    @Jagvar: Make it into a cute-ute and not only will Americans buy it in quadruple the numbers, but they'll also pay a few grand more for the high seating position.

    People often point at a lot of things about America--rejection of evolution, lack of universal healthcare, low test scores--which are often based on questionable reasoning, but the lack of adoption of wagons (by people and by CAFE) is the purest proof of widespread American idiocy I've ever seen.
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    09/15/09

    @Jagvar: This is the eye-wateringly ugly version of the 3-Series wagon.

    You know, for the avant-garde folks.
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    Image of Feds Feds
    09/15/09

    In reply to BMW X1 Debuts With Abundant Skiing Tchotchkes
    Maybe this is the reason that I am not an auto executive, but...

    If I were launching a car that LOOKED like a turd, I sure as shootin' wouldn't paint it turd-brown.
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    09/15/09

    @Feds: Um, that's metallic turd brown, thank you very much. You pay extra for that.
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