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Old 06-20-24, 01:10 PM
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Never cared for the clamshell hood. Looks cheap and downmarket, and usually used on econo cars...




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Cheap and downmarket, you say?












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Old 06-20-24, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by geko29
Cheap and downmarket, you say?











Those form nearly the whole fender and shoulder line.....

Totally different IMO
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Old 06-20-24, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
this could be described as "elon on crack" interior.
The refresh Model 3 interior blows this out of the water lol
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Originally Posted by Motorola
The refresh Model 3 interior blows this out of the water lol
I would still choose this because it has a display in front of the driver.
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Originally Posted by Motorola
The refresh Model 3 interior blows this out of the water lol
How? There isn't anything there in a 3 and the controls are all through the cheap center iPad
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Old 06-21-24, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Motorola
The refresh Model 3 interior blows this out of the water lol
i agree.

Originally Posted by SW17LS
I would still choose this because it has a display in front of the driver.
i... just... couldn't... 🤮

Originally Posted by Striker223
How? There isn't anything there in a 3 and the controls are all through the cheap center iPad
not all, it has steering wheel and voice controls. and the materials on the new one are nice. i want a gauge cluster or hud too, but this bmw interior is just gaudy/tacky imo.
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Old 06-21-24, 02:04 PM
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I get the sense that this interior will look better in person, as the angles don't seem to translate well to photo, at least the style of photos used for marketing.

Still don't like it though. I'm partial to the G30 era of bimmer interiors.
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Was checking out Savagegeese's new X2 video review today and it is beyond belief that it has stitched pleather upper door sills and dash while the X3 is a giant slab of almost hard plastic.

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Originally Posted by Motorola
Was checking out Savagegeese's new X2 video review today and it is beyond belief that it has stitched pleather upper door sills and dash while the X3 is a giant slab of almost hard plastic.
It isn't. Everything above the "leather" is fabric in the X3 pictures at the top of the thread. The only hard plastic is the lower door, below the armrests.
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Originally Posted by geko29
It isn't. Everything above the "leather" is fabric in the X3 pictures at the top of the thread. The only hard plastic is the lower door, below the armrests.
That's on the M50, the standard is almost hard plastic - watch the Autogefuhl video. Either way both are tremendous downgrades from the X2.
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Why? Just why? Is it this difficult to produce a good looking design?
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Why? Just why? Is it this difficult to produce a good looking design?
ha... well beauty is subjective. this joker will sell in big numbers.
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Originally Posted by Motorola
Was checking out Savagegeese's new X2 video review today and it is beyond belief that it has stitched pleather upper door sills and dash while the X3 is a giant slab of almost hard plastic.

No it isn't. The upper dash is synthetic leather, but not the doors.
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Originally Posted by tex2670
No it isn't. The upper dash is synthetic leather, but not the doors.
My Lexus has a soft vinyl-ish dash too.

That might be the norm except for super luxury cars.

Now that I think of it I'm not sure I've ever seen a leather dash on any of my cars.

My BMW roadster and CL500 I don't think we're leather either.
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