The NY Times' Jeff Sabatini thinks BMW's 6 Series, reintroduced for the 2004 model year after having been dropped from the Bimmer line 15 years ago, represents everything wrong with BMW these days:
It is perhaps the most egregious example of what BMW has become over the last few model years, a manufacturer of overwrought, technology-laden behemoths, cars that I find obnoxious in both their presence and their operation.
It's a shame to see the carmaker that for so many years represented brilliance in economy of form and elegance of function spin off into the realm of overengineered bloatfloats built for over-compensated, cigar-chomping corporate CEOs with demonstrative tastes. I thought that was what Hummers were for? Still, it is just one man's opinion about a marque that is drawing both awe and ire from the automotive press lately.