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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Trendsetters or Marketing? The X5 vs CLS discussion It's great that BMW is still keeping in line with its core brand values and distinctive BMW characteristics, but just because you can see a niche to fill, doesn't mean you should enter it. But I guess being first to market is a great advantage for manufacturers in the premium-car category - for example, the X5 and the CLS.
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: BMW F5 Progressive Activity Sedan - spy pics & info The X5 wasn't a new niche though. M
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![]() | Re: BMW F5 Progressive Activity Sedan - spy pics & info Quote:
LOL give me a break. The X5 was a much more new car when first launched than the CLS. X5 was actually a new concept, believe it or not. CLS is nothing but a cramp sedan. There is NOTHING new on the CLS, other than the name '4 door coupe' Your biased post makes me giggle.
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A "new" car, only to the those who sip the BMW koolaid with 2 straws. M
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![]() | Re: BMW F5 Progressive Activity Sedan - spy pics & info ^LOL'' You fanboys are are very entertaining!
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: BMW F5 Progressive Activity Sedan - spy pics & info both of them are a fool's man niche the X5 ushered in the RR sport, the cayenne, the Q7, the touareg etc.... more so than the ML, but int he end the S5 is just what merc1 said it was, an SUV that sacrifices offroad for on road just as the CLS is nothing more than a wheeled banana a cramped sedan, but whose style was enough to make a selling point, so a lot of other manufacturers whith established coupe and/or sedans, are looking to stretch in at the end both are idiotic overhyped concepts but the X5 is far more of a real world pratical success than the CLS |
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![]() | Re: BMW F5 Progressive Activity Sedan - spy pics & info ^good post vabboud (as usual) I expect we will see more of these niche models and crossover models over the next few years.
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![]() | Re: BMW F5 Progressive Activity Sedan - spy pics & info Quote:
I am not even going to respond to that. E53 X5 was new in not only one way. And the BMW koolaid joke was only funny the first time buddy. I hope there is a 'I wish I didn't hate BMW so much' koolaid too. Or a 'CLS did far more than X5' koolaid.
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