Massive failure - new BMW
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Come on, you've been here long enough to know this has been covered a million times already and always results in someone posting the photoshop of BMW with enormous grills until it covers the whole front of the car
A UK number plate fills some of the gap which helps. I suspect grills with a large surface area made from relatively flimsy plastic are good for pedestrian impacts versus the rather solid bumpers with small sections of plastic grill of pre 2010s cars. It's not just new BMWs, the Jaguar I- Pace has a rather excessive amount of grill, as does the current Mercedes line up.
A UK number plate fills some of the gap which helps. I suspect grills with a large surface area made from relatively flimsy plastic are good for pedestrian impacts versus the rather solid bumpers with small sections of plastic grill of pre 2010s cars. It's not just new BMWs, the Jaguar I- Pace has a rather excessive amount of grill, as does the current Mercedes line up.
To be fair, big grills are not a new trend. It seems that BMW have just made a total hash of the overall design, and the grill is the giant rotten cherry on top. Strange, a few years ago they made lovely things like the M2, and I also love the new M5 CS.
Having seen a few in the road, the M cars are quite imposing, but unfortunately it’s in a 90s Max Power kind of way…
Nice big grill.
Having seen a few in the road, the M cars are quite imposing, but unfortunately it’s in a 90s Max Power kind of way…
Nice big grill.
I thought the 1-series was a great move - the M140 is a fantastic little motor, looks good to.
You’ve got to think these grill machines are aimed at other markets outside of Europe. What is going on here, it’s laughable.
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t, it’s just dawned on me at 35 I might be getting old. I guess the social media generation are all about being seen, no matter what the cost.
You’ve got to think these grill machines are aimed at other markets outside of Europe. What is going on here, it’s laughable.
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t, it’s just dawned on me at 35 I might be getting old. I guess the social media generation are all about being seen, no matter what the cost.I think photography really shows up the awkward proportions and clumsiness of the new 4 Series. When I've seen one on the road, however, I thought it actually looked quite nice. Of course, this may be because once the parameters of your visual expectations have been tuned by the usual plethora of banal SUVs, it's a relative breath of fresh air.
CRA1G said:
I'm pleased to say the NEW M240i Xd hasn't fallen foul of the bigger grills..... I'm not pleased delivery has been put back from January to June...
The only difference being that they've not joined the top grille to the bottom one through the number plate bar, which many other manufacturers have done.Yet when BMW do it, we go into nuclear levels of meltdown.
Whilst the chrome surround in the OP does the car no favours, we are going to look back in a couple of years at this storm in a tea cup and laugh.
As for the OP, it seems you have been self-isolating for 2 years straight.
I would be ready for a proper lie-down when you first lay your eyes on the iX, XM concept or the next 7 series.
Whenever I go into a main dealer for a service, I am just amazed at how huge the cars are. I thought going from an E36 to an F30 showed a big jump in dimensions, but nowadays they are just enormously impractical. As said, the grille diminishes subjectively with a number plate, and it’s prominence depends on body colour, of course.
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I recall the shock, horror, incredulity experienced when first seeing this Vauxhall Senator model:
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Picture: Wikipedia.
A few years later, they blended into the background, scarcely noticed.
A similar example was the mid-2000s Audi A6 etc when those grilles went full-height.
The same will happen to the BMW grilles when they are ubiquitous.
I recall the shock, horror, incredulity experienced when first seeing this Vauxhall Senator model:
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Picture: Wikipedia.
A few years later, they blended into the background, scarcely noticed.
A similar example was the mid-2000s Audi A6 etc when those grilles went full-height.
The same will happen to the BMW grilles when they are ubiquitous.
Over the Christmas period, the generous owner of this Ferrari 250 SWB SEFAC kindly provided his car to be parked - in the falling snow - at an event that I was fortunate to be part of.
On leaving the building where the event was being held I walked up the short hill past the local BMW dealer when on the forecourt was parked a iX in a very similar colour.
It was very hard not to think that car design had taken a massive lurch backwards.
On leaving the building where the event was being held I walked up the short hill past the local BMW dealer when on the forecourt was parked a iX in a very similar colour.
It was very hard not to think that car design had taken a massive lurch backwards.
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