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NickD
NickD PowerDork
11/22/19 7:15 a.m.

Thanks, I hate it.

Olemiss540
Olemiss540 New Reader
11/22/19 7:24 a.m.

I dont understand why the magazine published the photo with a euro plate splitting the most asinine design feature? Did BMW realize they needed to ease the public into it or what other reason would there be?

Nothing a few extra M3 badges cant fix amIright?

spitfirebill
spitfirebill MegaDork
11/22/19 7:27 a.m.

Well...I’ve seen worse.  

Tyler H
Tyler H GRM+ Memberand UberDork
11/22/19 7:55 a.m.

"Butterface"

rslifkin
rslifkin UltraDork
11/22/19 8:17 a.m.

Image result for bmw grille 2060

z31maniac
z31maniac MegaDork
11/22/19 8:19 a.m.

BMW used to be my favorite brand and now they are dead to me.

mtn
mtn MegaDork
11/22/19 8:23 a.m.
jr02518 said:

Can you imagine the board room meeting that signed off on that design.  Someone had a feeling he was a short timer and went all in on what is going to go down in BMW history as an epic Gen "something" statement.

 

Sure, I can imagine it: 

... Car is presented

Presenter: Our focus groups in China love this design far more than any others

Board room: Its ugly, how much more?

Presenters: There are 1.4 Billion people in China compared to 1.1 Billion in the USA and Europe combined. They liked it a lot more than any of the others

Board room: Sounds good, lets go eat some Sauerbrate

Duke
Duke MegaDork
11/22/19 8:54 a.m.
jr02518 said:

Can you imagine the board room meeting that signed off on that design.

Yes, I can.

CHAIRMAN:  Rich Chinese people will pay anything for European luxury cars with instant brand identity as European luxury cars.

STYLING DEPARTMENT:  Say no more fam.

 

FuzzWuzzy
FuzzWuzzy HalfDork
11/22/19 9:01 a.m.

And everyone was mad at Bangle for his design.

Ha!

My '06 is likely the newest BMW I'll own at this point with how ugly they've been getting.

Kreb
Kreb GRM+ Memberand UberDork
11/22/19 9:04 a.m.

Bangle's a berkeleying genius.  

_
_ Dork
11/22/19 11:20 a.m.

Fixed in less than 30secs. 

NickD
NickD PowerDork
11/22/19 12:59 p.m.
FuzzWuzzy said:

And everyone was mad at Bangle for his design.

 

Personally, I thought Bangle designs were great. But I'm not a big BMW guy. 

Duke
Duke MegaDork
11/22/19 1:13 p.m.

In reply to _ :

Made a little better, maybe.  Fixed? Nein.

 

_
_ Dork
11/22/19 1:55 p.m.

In reply to Duke :

Oh come on! Those kidney shapes are finally a little more kidney- small and kinda needed. 

300zxfreak
300zxfreak New Reader
11/22/19 2:19 p.m.

Obviously, the designer’s mother, while pregnant with said designer, was scared by a locomotive.

Brett_Murphy
Brett_Murphy GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
11/22/19 2:36 p.m.

They need to cool everything off and adhere to Euro pedestrian regulations.

What did people expect was going to happen when power just started creeping up? Welcome to the new normal.

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