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by simonbarker87 31 days ago
It’s a shame it’s quite possibly the ugliest car I’ve seen in a long time.
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Interesting, I find it to be more pleasing than many recent BMW EVs I've seen. I was preparing to not like it as I clicked the link and was pleasantly surprised. Don't love the tail lights, but otherwise it's good/fine to my eye.
So then you are fine with XXXX at the front? :) Modern Bimmers are surely an acquired taste for me, but some of the bulldog looks can be mitigated with different/contrasting color schemes. I like the taillights, they can't please everyone, eh? :) My pinnacle is the E30 M3.
I don't super mind it, no. The overall look is much better than I expected.
Trying to figure out if they are saying the car is drunk or dead
this honestly looks directly inspired from the E30. Xs on headlights is a track tradition too. At least I like where the inspiration is drawn from.
It’s got Bugs Bunny teeth.
Beaver teeth
What exactly do you find particularly ugly on this car?

The only thing that is a bit weird to me are the headlights, otherwise I quite like the look.

It's like a different brand now. Apparently the Chinese drove this trend: https://www.hotcars.com/bmw-moves-on-big-grille-era-neue-kla...
Oh? Well to be fair, the ugliest thing on the road is not strictly a car, and to call it a "truck" is both an insult to anything that actually computes, and to actual trucks – or anything else that fits in road lanes.
Haven't you seen the Ferrari Luce?

Anyway, the iX5 is also not my taste but at least it looks like a BMW.

A very heavy BMW. 2900kg!

Any BMW with a grill smaller than an ASHPD portal is palatable.
I mean compared to the other BMW tanks this looks actually slightly less like tank

I guess people would buy it just for the brand with whatever design, personally I find current BMW tank design the worst in last 30-40 years I am watching car design

I am a great example of how true this is. I wanted an electric car, I wanted a BMW for a long time, I tried to convince myself to buy one for months but couldn't get over how ugly they were. Why do companies destroy their iconic designs when they go electric? So sick of "space car" designs for electric.
The screen cut ins, typographic headlights, and crystal scroller wheels scream "teenager escaped room due to Bitcoin". BMW has many timeless designs to pull from in the last 30-40 years, but chose to pass the mature confident adult torch to the likes of Volvo and Rivian...
For me the last generation, F-series, was pretty much e46 3.0. You can only iterate so many times.

Neue Klasse is a bit odd but I thought the same thing about the F and G model runs. I’ll need to see it in person.

BMW is dethroning Mercedes and continually beating Audi sales in the US. I’m surprised so many people would buy a car if they thought it was ugly. Benz reliability has tanked and Audi is lackluster as usual.

I finally gave up on bmw last year (after 15 years and 4 models) due to their reliability and cost of repair. I don’t think I’d touch them after spending thousands chasing down coolant repairs due to poor design (plastic parts, high labor cost location to inspect and replace).
Yes my wife’s x7 has been through 2 water pumps and now the control and thrust arms were leaking hydraulic fluid. Only 60k miles.
For me it was 70k. And it wasn’t the breaking. It was the poor engineering that caused the break.
My impression of new car design aesthetics is they're mostly ugly to me because they're optimizing for selling to a different market than mine (USA).

New automobiles starting looking Alien after China started buying more of them than the US, and it's continued ever since.

It's also just a ginormous hunk of metal. Which also makes the long range kinda moot, strapping a bigger battery will of course result in a bigger range. I'm guessing the car doesn't make any improvements on the efficiency?
TBH even ICE BMWs from recent years all look like fugly tanks
taillights look like a vinfast.
Elon Musk would love it lol