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So it's basically an electrified version of the 4 Series Concept? Am I missing anything here?
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Please make the grills smaller for the final version!!
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Is there a reason why electric cars always look awkward and ugly?
Why can't electric cars look identical to combustion cars, minus a few exhaust tips? |
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I'd say the Audi E-Tron is the least weird looking EV and pretty much matches up with other Audi's. The Mini Cooper EV could also be added, although the regular ICE Cooper is pretty quirky as it is, but the two don't have too many design differentiations between them.
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- unnecessary big kidneys on the exterior
- hood line will be there - sadly no Hoftmeister kink - Mercedes-Benz interior with those two ‘sticking out’ screens. Why is so difficult for them to do easy things right? |
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are polygon speedos and backward tachs somehow more advanced?
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Why does an EV need a grill at all. Much less that hideously ugly abomination.
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I really hope the new 4er grill looks more like this than the renders we've had so far.
Also really digging diffusers in place of exhausts. It fills that space nicely compared to the blank bumpers of current EVs. I'm really hoping this can be priced somewhere near 3er prices (lower end *fingers-crossed*).
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Love it!!!! Defintly my new car, got damn i am gonna drive the crap out of this one. Wonder if they are using the grill for all sensor and stuff for the self driving abilites of the car like radar and such stuff behind it.
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Hopefully the i4 will not only succeed in range, charging abilities, battery tech, and more, but hopefully it won't be priced too high, although tax/government credits should help out. Although I do worry, if this car is coming out in late 2021 (thats if its on time) what will Tesla do/update by then?
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gotta be honest, I've been trying to figure this out myself
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The Taycan and Model S, for example, are good-looking EVs, IMO, that look like normal ICE cars but were designed around EV architecture so they make the most of the design space.
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Stop crying people. This car will look, drive and sell very good. It looks very very promising. The grill it's starting to grow on me. It doesn't kill me but I don't hate it either. I think in person it'll look very good. This is shaping to be a true Tesla rival at last.
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Tesla is a different beast since it's very progressive on software updates while BMW remains stuck with its legacy ways.
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It looks nice, with a couple of exceptions:
The rear panel window looks a bit weird, a Hoffmeister kink would've been better there. And then there's the grille. It's awful! Like hitting your mother over the head with a hammer on Mother's Day awful... And it detracts from an otherwise solid effort. I don't understand why BMW is trying to get into the big grille game now (and doing such a piss-poor job of it). Audi's been at it since the mid 2000s. It just seems derivative and non-genuine (whatever the word for that might be; insincere, perhaps?). They should've just gone with a sleeker, smaller, classier interpretation of their twin kidneys. |
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