I used to love BMW. Hell, my initial username upon joining E90Post was "Bimmer_Loyalist" way back in the day. The company's changed so much in the past seven years that I just don't find any of the majority of their models half way interesting anymore. Unless they come up with some harder-edged vehicles with less conservative styling in the future, I don't see myself coming back to them.
I'm about to have an affair with some domestic blood. Couldn't be happier to buy American for the first time in my life.
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Originally Posted by ragingclue
Horrible?
Elaborate please.
The #1 non-GM brand being traded in for this car is BMW.
EDIT: Don't forget you're getting MRC, 6MT, Bimbos at all four corners, and a power plant with well-proven potential on the cheap, and coming in about $23k under your cap (loaded) at sticker. I'm not going to try to sell anyone on it, just wondering how it could be on your considerations list yet "horrible". It is not a Chevy, it's a Holden to the core (well I guess minus the LS3). All this talk around here about how BMW lost weight from one iteration to another, Holden took a ton of weight off this chassis while also improving it. Even with all the added tech, it came in losing weight. They're a car company that knows naturally how to build great cars like this. It's unfortunate tech-rich and implementation-stupid GM is killing them and giving them the finger the whole way.
I also like to look past badges, and I'm having the same "issues". There are too many outstanding options these days.
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Bimbos... heh.