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.
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.
@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.
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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@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.
All right... lower it about two inches... good. Now cut that damn beltline another... okay... that's about right, inch and a half? Good. Go for it, that's perfect.
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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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That, and from the 3/4 view, it appears to have a slight underbite.
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More to the point, this is why my family has two gloss-(non-metallic)-light-blue cars.
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Do you you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?!
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Was it the auction of Steve McQueen's Ferrari? [jalopnik.com]
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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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You know, for the avant-garde folks.
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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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