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Maybe it looks different in the flesh, but my instinct is just one word - Mondeo....

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This picture actually looks better than the one I saw this morning in another blog. At least here it doesn't look hideous, it just looks...strange.

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This is all well and good BMW, but I want something thats a little bit higher. No no not an X5, thats too high. Just a fraction higher... Oh and I want a wagon, but I really want to compromise my rear passenger headroom. X6? hmmm no not quite what I want. So I guess you'll be off to make the BMW 5.5 Series Progressive Wagon Sports Activity Utility Coupe Lifestyle Lifty Uppy Fastback then? GREAT!! Just what I need....this week.

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I thought BMW did have a design edge to them? Was this one of the last designs by Bangle? It shows. It looks ridiculous. I mean why would we want another R-Class? That was a huge flop wasn't it? Remember, 6 seats, looks like an estate and has 4x4. Why don't you save £40k and buy an A6 Allroad, does the same job and is upper class. I think that BMW should be ahead of their competitors, not below. This is a step too far. The X6 shows this. If you want a fast BMW estate by a 5-series estate. Does the same job and has enough space in the boot. It also comes in the 'M' mode. With more car companies struggling with their finances nowadays, why make a niche, that they know will fail. Are they trying to shoot themselves in the foot? We don't know what goes on in the mind of the German executives, but what I could say that is that BMW needs a new design direction. Engineering is not enough.

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So... it's a 5series, bot not a sedan cause it's got no bootlid & neither a touring cause, well it just ain't an estate. but it's got a big tailgate, which makes it...wait...on tip of my tunge...erm...a HATCHBACK for gods sake!!!!!!!! but because it ain't a competitor to a of a 6, mondeo & insignia (which looks nearly the same round the back) who are straight middleclass, BMW can't possibly call it that way and making it just an other 5series-version, they're going hiddeous marketing berserk by calling it "progressive activity sedan" or "grand tourismo" - which it can't be, cause it's got 2 many doors & if that are 21"-wheels, it's about as high as the 7series (1.49m) which is at least 0.15m to much!

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The longer I look at it, the more I like the front and the more hate the rear. On what drug we're they tripping when they came up this? It looks like an Insignia, a Honda FCX, a Korean hatchback (which name I can't remember) and a Panamera put together in a food blender and then dropped on a piece of paper. It looks awful.

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It would be good but have a guest A £50,000 B £60,000 or C £70,000?

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Can't quite put my finger on why, but this reminds me of the Rover SD1. I think it's because mine was the same colour :-D Still, can't help thinking that this German Renault Vel Satis really misses the current drivers in the car market - even if 80's retro is still all the rage...

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They've just done an X6: taken a perfectly acceptable (well, maybe not in the X5's case) car and stuck a stretched 6-Series roof on it! And what on Earth is a "Progressive Activity Vehicle"? I hope the Gran Turismo name doesn't make production. It keeps making me think it's related to the game. Plus Maserati would leave a horse's head in Beemer's beds...

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Why did Bangle try to create niches? Poor design, just ugly.

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Why did Bangle try to create niches? Poor design, just ugly.

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Why is BMW going down this road with their bad styling i mean the X6, Gastly ! this is even worse, thets hope they do not put this into production.

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You people must be kidding!!! The car i would drive -if i had a driving license- is this car... A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y PERFECT!!! What's the matter with you..Don't u find it elegant??!

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Ok what the hell has BMW done witht the front end of their cars, first the new 7 and now this, the double kidney shapes are TOO BIG. they are supposed to be the same height wise as the headlights, now they are swollen and overgrown, is anyone els not simply disgusted by this? way to go BMW you have succesfully ruined every single car in the range.

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it looks like a 5 series estate but back has been crushed down, its a horrid looking thing

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Oh bloody hell... how could they make the lovely looking 5 series look like a lovechild of a Prius and something I don't like as well but can't think of at the moment. Now honestly... Come on chaps it's hideous!

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I think thats a 7-Series

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This is a very ugly car. It's not even a new concept. Ford had the same idea back in the 1980's with the Granada. I'm confused at exactly who BMW are aiming this car at. The price dictates that this will be bought by middle aged men, whose children are all but adults themselves. This being the case just who in this segment will want a large glorified hatchback? GT is a total misnomer with this car.

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