BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them::The blowback worked—but subscriptions for software-based new car features will continue, according to a BMW board member.

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    1 year ago

    They’re recouping the costs of hiring an in house orthodontist to fix all them buck tooth grills they made.

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      They’re hideous. I feel bad for all the people that were finally in a financial position to afford an M3/M4 and have to drive around that monstrosity.

      Do they try to fool themselves into thinking it looks good?

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        I decided to wait until I actually have the money to buy the cars I wanted as a teenager… and now that I have the m9ney, those cars either no longer exist or have been ruined to the point where the spirit of the car that I loved is no longer there. So now I continue to drive my old ass civic and my wife gets a new car every few years instead, while I wait to be further disappointed.

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          You know you can buy literally the cars you wanted as a teenager right?

          Staying on the BMW thread, you can get a mint E46 or E9X M3 for a fraction of the cost of the new ones. Just gotta find one where the owner has taken care of it and kept service records.

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            Obviously, but the hope was to buy the car new one day. If I were to buy a used car, it’d be a different type of car entirely that I’d be buying - ie a viper or older NSX instead of a new STi. The e63 wagon is ugly AF and I wouldn’t trust any used E55. If we have another kid, I’m buying a minivan though and there isn’t anything my wife can do to stop me!

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        I mean the 3/4 is… questionable. But have you seen the 7/X7…? Not to mention the godawful monstrosity that is the XM? Like… what the actual fuck were the designers thinking? And moreover, what fucking imbecilic marketing yahoo thought it was a good idea to unabashedly bastardize literally everything that ///M division was supposed to be about since it’s inception? Like, honestly, I don’t view it as a real “performance” (sub)brand anymore. It’s that bad.

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          I actually prefer the 7 series over the 3 series looks. They’re both ugly, but at least the grill on the 7 series fits on the front of the car. The 3/4 series has to extend the hood upwards to fit the grill.

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          Hilarious if you look at the X5 it has a M package… which is just some cosmetics at this point.

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        What’s sad is that the motor is amazing, and the rear end and 3/4 view is beautiful. That front though instantly ruins it. It could have been an amazing car, but that front is just awful.