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      09-29-2020, 06:27 PM   #23
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I will try to be positive. Love the scenic roads and happy that it has a soft top instead of a hard top.
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      09-29-2020, 06:27 PM   #24
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The new rag top looks so much better than the folding hard top. Better lines for a sports oriented car. Both top up and down, the lines look good.
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      09-29-2020, 06:30 PM   #25
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Love it can't wait to the see the topless m4
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What is up with BMW pushing this trendy and tacky metallic emerald green �� color??? To me it's hideous �� and doesn't suit the brand at all. Looks like women's tacky nail ���� polish...
There's only a couple cars that look good in green and that's jaguar, range rover, old willy jeeps.
I respectfully disagree, whether its Fern, Oxford, British Racing or Alpina Green, for years BMW's have for the most part looked great in Green. Green is one of the classiest choices of car colors, especially when paired over tan leather.





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      09-29-2020, 06:49 PM   #27
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New soft top aligns up to the photos I took in Arjeplog back in 2019. Looks much better than my e46 convertible. Going to miss 4 hardtops in the intern (E93 x 2; F33 and F83). Bring on the all new G83 for 7/21 SOP
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Boy, that -almost- straight line above the rear fenders destroys the car...
No muscular hips... two lines with no flow...

The door handle is weird and out place..
The trunk cover looks like shit with that line in the middle (probably to match the scar on the hood), the connection with the tail light and rear fender is weird too.
Forget about the grille... Nothing flows anyway...

An these black plastics behind the front seats are just horrid... smh
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Finally the interiors of the 3-series feel like a BMW. What a great job BMW has done.

The exterior will have to just grow on us. I'm upset at myself that right now it's tolerable. Last week was an abomination.
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I respectfully disagree, whether its Fern, Oxford, British Racing or Alpina Green, for years BMW's have for the most part looked great in Green. Green is one of the classiest choices of car colors, especially when paired over tan leather.





Look at those lines man! Every design in all of them just defines the flow of the car and fit in the "kinetic design".
The new one is a mess...
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Boy, that -almost- straight line above the rear fenders destroys the car...
No muscular hips... two lines with no flow...

The door handle is weird and out place..
The trunk cover looks like shit with that line in the middle (probably to match the scar on the hood), the connection with the tail light and rear fender is weird too.
Forget about the grille... Nothing flows anyway...

An these black plastics behind the front seats are just horrid... smh
I do miss the "harder" body-lines of the past generation cars that gave it a more crisp or svelt like look, I think softer body-lines like these work better on other cars in my opinion.

Also surprised they still haven't done a power operated wind deflector. The C-Class cab has had one for years, even has an "air-cap" at the top of the windshield to push air out of the cabin.
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Beautiful. Loving the greens. I prefer the new grill on the 4 series to the m3/m4.
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Again I'm not even going to say anything about that awful grill... but now BMW is going backwards to a soft top instead of the hard top convertible? Seriously!? wtf is going on.
Have you ever had a hard top break and it not covered under warranty?

It's very very very very very very expensive.

Soft tops are less to maintain and cheaper to fix.

Why do people even like hard top cabs?
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I do miss the "harder" body-lines of the past generation cars that gave it a more crisp or svelt like look, I think softer body-lines like these work better on other cars in my opinion.

Also surprised they still haven't done a power operated wind deflector. The C-Class cab has had one for years, even has an "air-cap" at the top of the windshield to push air out of the cabin.
I get your point.
There are examples of vehicles with straight well defined lines and cars with more subtle lines. But in both cases, as general rule, they flow, connect and contribute to the overall design of the car by defining it as a whole.
This one has two independent lines, that do not connect, the rear one does not put more emphasis on the "hips " to make it more muscular, and that handle belongs to none.
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Why do people even like hard top cabs?
Because they are nicer, quieter, do not grow mold, easier to maintain without special care, hard to break in, they can not be cut with a knife, they do not "cook" in the sun so the material gest old and brittle, preserve the interior temperature so it is good in the winter too, and contribute greatly to the stiffness of the chassis, hence a better behavior for the car.
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I get your point.
There are examples of vehicles with straight well defined lines and cars with more subtle lines. But in both cases, as general rule, they flow, connect and contribute to the overall design of the car by defining it as a whole.
This one has two independent lines, that do not connect, the rear one does not put more emphasis on the "hips " to make it more muscular, and that handle belongs to none.
This design keeps reminding us that the people that designed the grill did not talk to the people that designed the front, much less to the people that designed the rear cube. Nothing flows. This convertible is the worst implementation of this new design language.
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This design keeps reminding us that the people that designed the grill did not talk to the people that designed the front, much less to the people that designed the rear cube. Nothing flows. This convertible is the worst implementation of this new design language.
My thoughts exactly.
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Outrageous grill so distracting you can't even admire the convertible. So inconsistent. Almost like the designer had multiple personality disorder with various personalities emerging during design of various parts of the car. Grill looks better on the M versions. The non-M versions: A disaster!
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The color is classy, but just like the others I prefer hard roof.
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So buck teeth/pig nose and a folding tent? Owners will be too embarrassed to ever put the top down.
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Sweet looking Audi. The roof line looks to me just like an Audi vert. The hard top verts did a great job of keeping the kink, higher greenhouse and provided great visibility.
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Weight saving as it should be.

Have you ever driven a hard top? It steers like boat, heavy in the corners and is overall bad a driving experience.

You guys are never happy, people were complaining about the hard top for years for the reasons mentioned above, now BMW is being criticised for hearing people's feedback and getting it right.
This right up here ^
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I respectfully disagree, whether its Fern, Oxford, British Racing or Alpina Green, for years BMW's have for the most part looked great in Green. Green is one of the classiest choices of car colors, especially when paired over tan leather.
Just love the 6GC design
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