Now the new 5series is looking good
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Originally posted by GSTRANCE
I meant I havent seen a front shot of this Hamann modified car to see what they did to the front.
I meant I havent seen a front shot of this Hamann modified car to see what they did to the front.
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Saw one today all shiny and new on the road. I had a good look at it. I don't like it. It looks too sculpted and and angled all over. It looks better in the pictures. Maybe it will grow on me but I remember first seeing the outgoing style and loving it at first sight.
Murph
Murph
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Murph, that's ironic. Saw my first one locally a week or two ago and thought to myself that it looked better in the metal than it has in pix. Still can't deal with those eyebrows, though............
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I'm sure that somebody will make color-keyed trim pieces to cover the corner of the headlamps (just like they already have for the 99-01 3-Series to make it look like the 02-04 models). Here is my crude "artist's" rendering of such a mod that I whipped up in Paint.
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They're running an ad blitz on TV and in magazines, and I have mixed emotions. It's definitely not as in-your-face ugly as the new 7, but I still think it is less attractive overall than the current (I guess now the OLD) 5. The scowling front end is so mean-looking it's almost comical, while the back does have WRX or even TSX lines.
You know they scrambled back to the drawing boards, so I wonder how bad it would have been before the new 7 was soundly rejected by the marketplace...
You know they scrambled back to the drawing boards, so I wonder how bad it would have been before the new 7 was soundly rejected by the marketplace...
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Originally posted by Iceman
You know they scrambled back to the drawing boards, so I wonder how bad it would have been before the new 7 was soundly rejected by the marketplace...
You know they scrambled back to the drawing boards, so I wonder how bad it would have been before the new 7 was soundly rejected by the marketplace...
Last edited by squarehat; Oct 25, 2003 at 11:53 PM.
