@FlakJack: I might have hannover from all the cold medicine I took, but I'm pretty sure you can't göttingen any. But I bet those ladies are bremen with lots of Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetzabstimmung in their Bezirksschornsteinfeger, if you know what I mean.
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.
Come back tomorrow for the unveiling of my electric sportscar (everyone else is announcing one) and bakelite Aston (inspired by the carbon-fibre one that I can't afford).
@Pessimipposaurus: Because that would be WWIII. The French and the British owned by the Germans on the land of Germans... Too bad that some vintage Polski Fiats didn't make it to the show.
Is there anything left to show? I got online this afternoon and it seemed like every major debut all dropped in a cluster bomb of automotive tom-foolery.
Oh, you don't REALLY wish we were all there, now do you? There might be an international incident.
But I would have to say they really started off with some impressive stuff!
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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/she'd still have the same disinterested stare...
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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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Low points for me: the EV bandwagoneering and learning that the Audi R8 Spyder comes with a hidden Sally Struthers.
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I guess they don't want anyone to know that they're relatives? I think?
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Vyzer zomanimor orziz assiz zanzeriz orziz?
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@Dhillaz 2.0: Wait. I was wrong. It's called the REVOLTe. And why wait? Here it is.
Attractive, in a gory road accident sort of way.
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But I would have to say they really started off with some impressive stuff!
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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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