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09-13-2024, 10:18 AM | #133 |
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Fine with me. I don’t need them to come up with anything attractive for 3-5 years. Hopefully the government regulators have struck a more realistic and practical balance between EV and ICE by then.
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09-13-2024, 10:38 AM | #135 |
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Can someone help me understand - is this German speak for “you’re fired,“ “we’re going a different direction,” or “we will make slight changes in the future maybe next decade or 2038”…? I want the entire design team fired with immediate effect and penalized to the fullest extent of the law
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09-13-2024, 02:09 PM | #141 |
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No more beaver teeth or angular designs please. We need em aggressive looking and curvy.
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09-13-2024, 02:12 PM | #142 |
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Finally thank goodness hopefully hire in a new team to do something evolutionary going back to some better designs than just keeping making large changes that loose the essence of their DNA. The belief the industry has is to come up with totally different designs every 7 years so your old car looks old…not a sustainable way of thinking really and means at some point you run out of ideas to make the car different in a meaningful way. They need to think like Porsche, sell volumes like Tesla and better reliability like Toyota!
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09-13-2024, 02:24 PM | #143 | |
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I have mad respect for Mr Adrian Van Hooydonk Don’t blame him personally, blame the board of directors as they pick the designs
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09-13-2024, 03:54 PM | #145 | |
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It’s an ugly design not a good design. If you own one, you are entitled to confirmation bias.
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09-13-2024, 03:57 PM | #146 | |
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Volvos are however better looking cars. Enjoy!
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09-13-2024, 04:04 PM | #147 |
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09-13-2024, 04:09 PM | #148 | |
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Yes it has shortcomings like the lower front bumper, interior large screen etc etc. That's why I said most of the BMWs are also below average in looks theee days but gotta drive the itch
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09-13-2024, 05:19 PM | #150 |
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Don’t tempt fate. I’m sure we all thought nothing uglier than the XM could be made, until the red label XM was revealed.
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09-13-2024, 05:38 PM | #151 | |
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Just remember it was Mr Van Hooydonck personally who stated that he couldn't mind a rat's ass about criticism of the current customer base. He stopped organizing design clinics because our opinions are worthless. The controversy was for him the prove that the designs were disruptive and innovative seen we're all conservative and can't recognise good design. The beaver grill and the XM which both shocked the world were to him epitomes of great design. Such arrogance is not worth your respect. But I do agree that the responsability of the board is not to be neglected. Marcus Flash left M Gmbh also (mainly?) because his supercar project was ditched by the board in favor of the XM. |
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09-13-2024, 05:54 PM | #152 |
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09-13-2024, 06:06 PM | #153 |
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We might lose vision or lifetime by the time BMW fixes any of their designs.....if they ever do.
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Chris is laughing all the way to the bank… 🏦 Chris, has his own design studio, works at his own pace, and he’s the chef designer for Samsung Electronics.
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