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Old 07-12-2008, 01:43 PM   #11
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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

It still remains really ugly car, nothing can help here! I really can't understand how other BMW cars are so better designed and look more sleek and smooth..This is just bad, it looks retarded, design of the headlights doesn't really fit the lines of the car. And it is starting to look very boxy somehow, especially comparing it to X6 for example.


BTW, what is really XDrive? I wasn't really too much into these things lately, sorry for my ignorance!
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Old 07-12-2008, 02:06 PM   #12
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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

Audi Q5 is best looking in this class. GLK is also ugly.
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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

I suppose the X5 models will be changing their names to XDrive something as well.

Alas, the new X3 look still does nothing to/for me. I'm sure it will still sell though.
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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

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Audi Q5 is best looking in this class. GLK is also ugly.
I don't know if it really is in the same premium class, but to me the only remotely good looking car of this type is the Volvo XC60.

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Old 08-14-2008, 07:21 AM   #15
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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

^^^ that's very much in the same premium class, but nobody here can say that that Volvo looks better than either Q5 or GLK That Volvo is absolutely horrible...look at those lines and that weird shape.....eeeeewwwh! Dr Dunkel is a fanboy of Swedish cars...admit it
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Old 08-14-2008, 08:03 AM   #16
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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

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I suppose the X5 models will be changing their names to XDrive something as well.

Yep.

Same will happen with Z4: although it will wear sDrive badge instead. Y5 (PAS) will follow the same pattern: with sDrive, or xDrive.

Also the core models are losing "x" & "s" in the names.
xDrive / sDrive badge will be there instead.

eg.

530d
xDrive

335i
xDrive

Z4 sDrive35i

X5 xDrive35d
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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

^ So the new xDrive badge will then be below '335i' or '335d'?

Or only on the side?
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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

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^ So the new xDrive badge will then be below '335i' or '335d'?

Or only on the side?

There's "xDrive" badge on the side only.
Usually below the side blinker.

So ... eg.:

335i on the back, sDrive on the side
530d on the back, xDrive on the side

X5 on the back, xDrive30d on the side
Z4 on the back, SDrive35i on the side



"hDrive" will indicate mild-hybrid, "ActiveHybrid" is a full-hybrid designation.
"eDrive" signals electric drive. I'm hearing next 1er will offer eDrive stuff - yet no info whether this will be production or test-promotion vehicles only.
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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

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^^^ that's very much in the same premium class, but nobody here can say that that Volvo looks better than either Q5 or GLK That Volvo is absolutely horrible...look at those lines and that weird shape.....eeeeewwwh! Dr Dunkel is a fanboy of Swedish cars...admit it
Haha, well, heres my defence:

1. The Q5 is a scale down version of one of the ugliest cars on the road today; the Q7. Hence, many things can be said about is but pretty aint one of them.

2. The GLK is, like I have said before, a transvestite version of the wonderful Geländewagen.



3. The X3 looks plain retarded.

4. The XC60 at least looks like a Volvo.

Im not really a fan of Swedish cars in gereral or Volvo in particular but they have got a few of them right. So, looking better than the german trio is not that hard. Come to think of it, the XC60 looks a bit like the Nissan Qashqai...

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Re: BMW X3 Model Year 2009

The X3 doesn't look so bad ... in Black or Dark Blue.

Other colors are ... questionable ...
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