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Twelfth Monkey · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:47 am Post subject: Why the long face?

A glum- (and grim-) looking car if ever I saw one.
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Nice Guy Eddie · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:49 am Post subject:

Maybe I'm just used to butt ugly BMW's but thats not to bad.

It probably steers rather well
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cbeaks1 · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:49 am Post subject:

Looks like it has a mighty fine 'tache under its nostrils.

Mark · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:05 pm Post subject:

Not nice at all.

And more dumbo-like mirrors - even worse than the A5/Q7.

DaveGibson · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject:

It fascinates me how many car designers put sad 'faces' on their cars these days. Having a 'smiley' grille was always supposed to engender a positive, feel-good response from the viewer.

woof woof · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:21 pm Post subject:

Horrible but coming to a housing estate near you shortly.
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Blarno · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:22 pm Post subject:

Humphrey The Pug · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject:

It looks just like how an estate 1 series may look.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject:

No, the estates it'll be coming to are ones with "executive starter homes".

Twelfth Monkey · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:20 pm Post subject:

cbeaks1 · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject:

That's a facelift version, which were much prettier than the originals. I loved mine - looks aside it was a great car.

BeN · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject:

DaveGibson · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:54 pm Post subject:

Racing · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:20 pm Post subject:

I think the X1 is a dreadful piece of design - I'd want to hear the thought process that went into it.
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boc70 · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject:

Looks like an ill-matching photofit picture.

Matt · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:22 pm Post subject:

Whereas it used to be difficult to find the turds in BMW's line-up, it's hard to find the few gems they still make these days.

Not nice at all.
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TimR · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject:

You can understand the car looking sad because it's so fucking ugly.

Still no doubt the M version - probably a mildly breathed on 2.0 Diesel - will look better with body coloured bits, etc.

Giant · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject:

Where have all the lovers of this design gone, when I voiced my disgust at the styling of the concept I got shot down by two or three lovers of it, have they come to thier senses, can't remember who you were! The lower vent seems to be the shape of Kia's new corporate grill.

Frank Bullitt · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:51 am Post subject:

It is wilfully ugly but I think this is all part of a shift from elegance to 'fuck you' design. It wasn't the first but the watershed moment was probably the Porsche Cayenne; the aim of the design is to intimmidate rather than enliven.

Give it an M-spaz kit, M-spaz badges littered all over it and Dustbin-lid wheels and it'll start to look more like the baddy robots in Short Circuit 2...
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Sav · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:43 am Post subject:

Well its no worse looking than the grotesque looking Q7.
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Big TC · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:48 am Post subject:

Well, as some of you may know, I'm not a fan of BMW's 1-series or either model of Compact, nor the X-series. That one can go right on the list as it's just as ugly.

Course there will be people who just love it and would do anything just to be given a ride in one...(even if they can't afford to buy one)
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Boxer6 · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:01 am Post subject:

woof woof · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:21 am Post subject:

Does it really matter what it looks like? It's German and it's a BMW, the British inspirational class will ache to own it.
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woof woof's defence lawyer claimed that "Booze played no part in his typo's."

Confucius says "all reckless speeding is caused by accidents."

BeN · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:37 am Post subject:

Better pics.

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Matt · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:41 am Post subject:

From that 3/4 view is its best angle. With the lights off.
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Gurney · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:41 am Post subject:

Don't know what it is but the second shot is far more appealing.
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DaveGibson · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:47 am Post subject:

Twelfth Monkey · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:57 am Post subject:

It'll take some serious metal to fill those wheel arches. Which will mean delving into the options list...

Horribly tippy-toe, and the second shot shows just how badly the new pedestrian regs have been integrated. The bonnet looks horribly high and long.

Given how few X3s I see (unlike the ubiquitous X5), why is BMW so keen on the soft roader sector?
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:59 am Post subject:

Blarno · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject:

Sorry Ben, but I thought you said better pics? It still looks awful..
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Gurney · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:14 pm Post subject:

I was going to say it's a 3 series touring on stilts but that would be an insult to my (personal) favourite 3 series.

I guess they have to follow the market though and if there is the demand then they must attempt to fulfill it.
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woof woof · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject:

Those pictures don't show the Land Rover which is just out of shot waiting to pull the BMW out of the sand.
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woof woof's defence lawyer claimed that "Booze played no part in his typo's."

Confucius says "all reckless speeding is caused by accidents."

Big TC · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:45 pm Post subject:

The second shot is ruined by a big white piece of shite, and the focus is bollocks (as has been noted)
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BeN · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:46 pm Post subject:

Frank Bullitt · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject:

Guitar Zero · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:22 am Post subject:

It looks like the dolly bird has been photoshopped into those pictures

Now - why is that so ?

Do you think the pictures taken originally featured the gimp with the surf board and subsequent review and emotional response testing with the key market demographic (

) resulted in an emergency re-conceptualising ?

" Blart !!, we need blart ! - I'm thinking blond, with teeny jubblets who looks like she sucks off BMW drivers "
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Gurney · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:39 am Post subject:

Think you hit the nail on the head there Peet.

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Mark · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:12 am Post subject:

They are tiny.

DaveGibson · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:40 am Post subject:

She's positively buxom compared with a lass I used to work with.

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject:

Interior is a step forward:

TimR · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

Looks like it was a long day for the photoshoot as in the 1st picture the burd is much more red about the chest than the 2nd one.

Perhaps it took all day to find the 'best' angles to shoot the heap from.

woof woof · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject:

From underneath?
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woof woof's defence lawyer claimed that "Booze played no part in his typo's."

Confucius says "all reckless speeding is caused by accidents."

TimR · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject:

Should've waited until it was dark.

Matt · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:01 am Post subject:

Matt · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:33 pm Post subject:

The X1 has been usurped by Mercedes already...

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DetmoldDick · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject:

The white turd (you dont see many of those these days) cannot have got to that position under its own steam (steaming turd?) as there are no tracks left in the sand.
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DaveGibson · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject:

The tyre treads are suspiciously free of sand, too.