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BMW styling and vehicle design has been doing down the toilet for years now but this is a new low. The recently revealed BMW 3.0 CSL is absolutely hideous. It's like they are trying to rival Lexus for the worst front end design award.
Ha ha, the front end looks like an evil geriatric uncle.
I remember when the original came out in the early 1970s and as a teenager I stared at the pictures for ages marvelling at the sheer elegance and delicacy of the design, yet realising that it was at the same time a pretty powerful machine.
Fast forward to when I recently saw the pics of that horrendous, truly awful monstrosity!
BMW has gone deep into the weird end lately. The funny thing is, when the 6-series Gran Coupe came out, I thought it was one of the most elegant cars I had seen in a long time, but it already looks ho-hum. These most recent overbaked designs like the i3 and 3.0 CSL are already off-putting and certainly won't age well.
The i3 is just wierd, inside and outside. It's like Ikea put wheels on a phone booth. And you can't buy one, you have to lease it (or so a salesperson told me).
That new CSL is really hideous, it sure makes a statement, but just because you can make that statement doesn't mean you should.
Anyone seen the i3 ? It is atrocious ... huge gaps in panels, lines going everywhere and disappearing suddenly.
I have not seen an i3 up close, just on the road. I still can't get over the fact that they put a BMW badge on that thing. OTOH I saw an i8 on the road for the first time today. It was beautiful, but again - I saw it just from a distance. But overall a car with a presence.
This car is just plain nasty. I like the profile, but the ends are bad. Even the back in is just not good - just not as ugly as the front. The back harkens back to the early 00's Vis Invader/Drifto/Kombat cheap bodykit NOPI days. Yuck.
I have not seen an i3 up close, just on the road. I still can't get over the fact that they put a BMW badge on that thing. OTOH I saw an i8 on the road for the first time today. It was beautiful, but again - I saw it just from a distance. But overall a car with a presence.
This car is just plain nasty. I like the profile, but the ends are bad. Even the back in is just not good - just not as ugly as the front. The back harkens back to the early 00's Vis Invader/Drifto/Kombat cheap bodykit NOPI days. Yuck.
I've seen an i8 before and I think its quite attractive in person, definitely a successful design. I've seen a few i3's on the road now and how that car ended up looking so awful in comparison is astounding. Maybe they figured one would offset the other.
Strange-looking front end of that car. Looks like Bangle has came back.
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