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      04-21-2018, 05:37 PM   #1
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Is that a KIA?

NO!! It's a new BMW! iX3 concept apparently. I don't even know what to say anymore. Never thought I'd see the day that BMW would copy KIA's grill. First the elimination of the Hofmeister kink from the X2 (granted it's not RWD but still) so that it doesn't even look like a BMW from it's side profile, more like some Japanese or Korean suv. Oh well, gone are the days of the driver oriented cars. At least we got to live at a time and be a part of BMW's glory days. What do you guys think?

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/04/21/...ng-motor-show/
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      04-21-2018, 05:41 PM   #2
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Blame euro crash / pedestrian requirements for the increasingly hideous looks of the front ends of our cars.
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      04-21-2018, 06:25 PM   #3
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No more kidney grills.
Any more doubts this company is losing its identity?

And speaking of KIA, I saw a black Stinger parked next to all the BMWs at my dealer yesterday and although all the Kia badges were replaced with the "E" logos from Korea, the car had nothing to be ashamed of, badges or not.
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      04-21-2018, 08:18 PM   #6
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Blame euro crash / pedestrian requirements for the increasingly hideous looks of the front ends of our cars.
That's a pretty lazy excuse, at least in this case.
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      04-21-2018, 09:42 PM   #7
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BMW has some strange fascination with 'connecting' things right now; headlights to grilles, grille end to grille end, etc.

I get the nostalgia part of that design element, but it just doesn't work with today's modern BMW. I don't totally hate it, but as others have pointed out it's awfully close to looking like a KIA grille.
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      04-22-2018, 08:21 AM   #9
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In a very short time, BMW has gone from traditional twin-kidney grill to conjoined twin-kidney grill to Magnum mustache to Kia sunglasses.

What’s next - changing the engine in the middle of a model run?

Oh, wait...
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      04-22-2018, 11:10 AM   #10
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Let's see the whole car first.
Also, it may not be the final design.

I might put a pre-order on this one.
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