BMWs with changing color schemes
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Does it come with touch up paint. Hard pass.
I would believe that would be a difficult and expensive repair if the vehicle was in an accident.
It's not paint.
Finally, a chameleon car. Carjackers and other criminals will love it.
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I see this all the time. It's usually on Chevrolets in the ghetto.
No, you don't. You may see something that looks similar, but not this.
That is even worse.
Sorry, but (saying this as as a past BMW owner and a long time admirer) I think BMW has lost its way.
What about a spare tire, an engine oil dipstick, durability, repairability, simplicity. Look around at a BMW dealership - the sales people aren't car guys, and the current customers aren't either. It's now all about bling and posturing.
Isn't there room for a car company that makes engineering excellence (in its positive sense) the priority. Not a priority, the priority.
Who makes a modern 2002 Tii? Not BMW.
You sensitive ones should avert eyes now - but perhaps Tesla is more like the classic BMW than the modern BMW is.
Okay, rant over. Move along folks. Nothing to see here.
What about a spare tire, an engine oil dipstick, durability, repairability, simplicity. Look around at a BMW dealership - the sales people aren't car guys, and the current customers aren't either. It's now all about bling and posturing.
Isn't there room for a car company that makes engineering excellence (in its positive sense) the priority. Not a priority, the priority.
Who makes a modern 2002 Tii? Not BMW.
You sensitive ones should avert eyes now - but perhaps Tesla is more like the classic BMW than the modern BMW is.
Okay, rant over. Move along folks. Nothing to see here.
If you can afford one, if it ever makes it into production to the public you won’t worry about insurance, most people who can afford many expensive cars don’t pay insurance other than required liability.
There definitely would be a market for it however whether it’s worth it for BMW to bring it into main stream production I don’t know.
This is all part of their electric vehicle technology and this paint is nothing new it’s just the first time it’s been used on an automobile. Here is a further explanation, I think, https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22867090/bmw-color-changing-paint-electric-car-ces
What it’s worth is to the person that buys it. No different than your Wi-Fi, changing lightbulb that’s in your house, or your Wi-Fi thermostat to control your heating system.
If this car is ever sold people will buy it.
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I had two of those little jewels. One NA and one with the Kugelfischer mechanical fuel injection system. BMW couldn't make them again today.
In my neck of the woods, Teslas are THE chariot of choice for those expressing a holier-than-thou attitude. It's part of in-group signaling in Silicon Valley. The better example of engineering excellence is found in the Mazda MX-5.
Full facial hair, those were the good old days.
I would agree with you about the handling, simplicity and reliability of the MX-5. I like them too. But the 2002 Tii was a sedan with good acceleration (for the time), reasonable trunk space and 4 passenger capability. And good acceleration, reasonable trunk space and 4 passenger capability fit better with a Tesla Model 3. And its cabin is a model of simplicity, austerity even.
Now a Mazda 3 would have some claim to the modern Tii crown. It does have good handling, simplicity, reliability, and even marginal 4 passenger capability, but it doesn't do so well in the good (for the time) acceleration.
In 1969 or 1970 I saw a street race between a 2002 Tii and a heavy breathing Nova V8. It was too close to call. So I would say the 2002 Tii would be considered a hot car in that era. And I can't say that about a Mazda 3 or an MX-5.
PS Around here, Tesla Model 3s are just one of the more common new cars.
The fact that one of, if not the flagship, M car is going to be a full-sized SUV says a lot.
Granted, crossovers are the financial bread and butter now, but Porsche still makes 911s to go along with the Macans and Cayennes, Lambo still makes Huracans and Aventadors along with the Urus, the Purosangue won't displace the rest of Ferrari's sports cars, and so on and so forth…
BMW ain't got nuthin' in the high end sports car realm, and the rest of them are numb, overweight hot rods with AWD and slushboxes, not the lithe and agile M cars of old.
And despite the total freedom of a glass cockpit, they can't make a set of legible gauges, a complete 180 from one of the things the brand was known for.
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Imo it's just like everything else. Cars have become nothing more than pop culture. It's like whatever music society forces down your throat and tells you what to like, it's the same with cars. Your told it's hip and cool, and that this is what you want.
Cars have no soul or individuality anymore. There's honestly no current car that I truly love and can't live without. I like the new Nissan 400Z, but I's take an 80s Z31 or 90s Z32 over it any day.
Stella Clarke is cute, but the car is not.
Cars have no soul or individuality anymore. There's honestly no current car that I truly love and can't live without. I like the new Nissan 400Z, but I's take an 80s Z31 or 90s Z32 over it any day.
Stella Clarke is cute, but the car is not.
The 2002 were wonderful cars the like of will never be seen again.
Except for the possible changing to white for heat reflection (...or to black for absorption) I don't see the need....not one bit.
In fact, a car sitting there progressing white-to-black-to-white-to-black seems silly.
The more expensive it is, the stupider it seems (to me).
Undercover police cars?
In fact, a car sitting there progressing white-to-black-to-white-to-black seems silly.
The more expensive it is, the stupider it seems (to me).
Undercover police cars?
Doesn't it make you wonder how well a modern 2002 would sell. By that I mean a good handling, hard accelerating, relatively simple, durable, repairable, smallish, 4 passenger car with a trunk, a manual transmission and a spare tire. If a gas engine, it would need a dip stick (a basic component for simplicity).
The MX-5 has done very well in that niche (the reliable but otherwise classic "English" sports car).
The technology to make a modern 2002 replacement is there.
