What in the fuck were they thinking?

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FUTURE

>>16015850
Literally the best looking bmw currently out

>i can't afford it so it must be bad
typical poorfag logic

>>16015850
I hope they use this tech to make an Electric Motorcycle. That would be neat as hell.

>>16015891
lol? I could afford one but it is litterally SHIIIT. I think its the car for people who likes wearing tank tops and obey snapbacks, aka fgts

>>16015919
LUL

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>>16015850

They're still trapped in the "electric cars MUST BE overly progressive looking (fugly) because FUTURE".

They still don't get that Tesla is so successful because their electric cars don't look like homo designer turds and rather look like actual usable cars.

Looks great from the front, pics don't do it justice.
Hideous out back, pics don't show just how bad it is.

>>16015850
>>16015862
>muh dick
its a fantastic looking car

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Will electric cars bring back low noses?

Having no hard engine block under the hood means no need for those extra inches headroom under it for pedestrian crash comfort.

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>>16016040
>yfw wedges again

>>16015891
It's cheap plastic shit.

https://youtu.be/fxe_b2GRwok

>>16016040
>vote trump
>"let's just replace crosswalks with bridges and tunnels, people, it's my new plan to create jobs on your dollar!"
>pedestrian crash comfort regs disappear because they're unamerican

>>16015919
BMW doesn't want to make motorcycles. Only cuckcycles that engage autopiliot when you lean unless you pay $399.99 a year to unlock rossi mode.

>>16016040
Mid/rear engined cars are still a thing and they still have ugly front ends because pedestrian safety.

>>16016419
Who came up with this idea of making crashes hurt less when it's so much safer to just tell people to get off the road and only cross with traffic if they're ever on it?

>tfw no jaywalking enforcement
>tfw no sidewalk barriers except on bridges
>tfw almost no safe crosswalks with indicator lights
>"hmm, let's just ruin cars"

>>16016468
Yeah but people will be stupid no matter what so they have to improve crash safety so they don't get sued by someone who was jaywalking etc.

its a homage to the 850's i never really made the connection until just recently.

>>16015891
>it's expensive so it must be good
typical brandwhore logic

>>16016624
Stay salty

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>>16016341
>its easier to launch a nuke than to open the hood

>>16016040

Wedges are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 80's and not progressive at all.

They will never return (and that's great).

>>16016341
>all these ridiculous steps to open the hood, each of them potentially breaking something if you do it alone, just so that it's easy to spot whether or not you tried to access what's inside your car
>"there is no reason to be under the hood unless it's in a shop anyway" (for reparation by BMW staff, clearly)
so this is where motoring is heading to, huh?

>>16016341
>that fucking loudmouth sales guy
I hate sales so much

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Saw one recently outside my place of employment. I live in a very rich area of Colorado, though.

>>16017026
I'm in North Virginia, I've already seen atleast 5-6

>>16016040
I wish they could come back and im sure if all we need were electric cars to do then it would be no problem and we'll all have our wedges again. The only problem is new safety regulations require the front to be certain sizes for pedestrian safety bullshit.

>>16018213
they're fucking everywhere around here?

>>16018237
Sure, around Vienna, Great Falls and Tysons.

>>16015883
this

>>16018179
>loses on real tracks
Love it

>>16016341
i'm glad that most of the people standing around think its ridiculous

>>16018231
as far as I know the top priority is that the pedestrian doesn't fall too hard, hence the distance between hood and engine block on normal cars which makes fronts higher and everything else, too.

second thing is that the person should be able to roll off the car which also takes some of the kinetic energy but again I think the biggest thing is that they don't get hit too hard which could be taken care off with clever "soft" fronts while still keeping the wedge

>>16018283
>Giving a fuck about track times
I seriously don't get it, unless you're going to try to compete and make some money/a career who the fuck cares?

And if you are going racing, you're not going to be driving anything that remotely resembles a production car by the time you're on a track.

>>16015920
>I could afford one
No reason to lie on the internet, friend.

>>16016341
what the fuck bmw?

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>>16015995
>homo

Still using homophobic slurs in 2016, are we?

>>16015920
I see them once in a while and I have never seen one driven by someone who isn't dressed like a business man.

>>16015995
>Tesla is so successful
are they?

>>16021293
They haven't crashed and burned and are far from bankrupcy.
For now.
Just wait until all their cars start to age (horribly) with no hope of fixing anything without replacing everything and people's opinion on Tesla might change a little.

>>16018179
What's the point of your post?

>>16021371
Not even that. People don't buy Tesla because they are such good cars, they buy them because of hype, because they want to be avant-garde, progressive, part of the future.
But hype only lasts so long, even in america. One day people will realise the magic super battery wont come and all of Musk's promises were bullshit.

>>16018179
>367hp 3cyl
>just as fast as a 564hp V8
lovely

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Why did they screw up the back?

>>16018179
>1980kg
love it

>>16021630
While not pretty that is still the opposite of the back of the 1-series, whose back is so uninspiring and boring whoever designed it fell into a coma right after

>>16016597
>3cyl mr electric car with corolla tires
>homage to a v12 super gt from the 90s

>>16019747
t. homo

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>>16015850
I'm driving this cars little brother.
Its a lease from my job.
it is a ugly bmw compared to some of the others.
But it drives really well and the hybrid switching is really not noticable.

>>16021754
that's not an i3

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looks better without the blue trim

>>16018179
>3 cylinder hybrid
>as fast as a supercharged V8
No replacement for displacement

>>16021769
nah, its the 225xe
actually not that bad a car.
Really feels like a huge step up compared ot my old golf 3

Aside from the blue highlights and the retarded back I don't think it looks bad desu

But this shit >>16016341 is retarded

>>16021293
Vw sells more cars every week than Tesla has sold its lifetime.

>>16021778
and without the ugly wheels