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  • I've driven several BMW's starting in the mid 90's. I recently picked up a used 2017 sight unseen from a dealer pretty far away. It was the only one available I could find that met my criteria.

    The car was in superb shape and I'm happy with it, but I knew immediately after driving it that it would be the last BMW I ever purchased. This just seals the deal.

    by seemaze
  • BMW: The Ultimate Advertising Machine
    by dessimus
  • 13 hours ago: "BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising" (consumerrights.wiki)

    211 points | 148 comments

    by WalterGR
  • This upsets me so deeply in my core that so many companies do this instead of creating anything new for a customer to buy. I can't even process that someone would be mentally disturbed enough to even think of this, and not feel any shame.
    by ocd
  • I have seen the bar at the top appear with "BMW has a surprise for you" or something, but I always use Android Auto which starts a second later so I have never seen what this was. Still unacceptable.
    by PeterStuer
  • I have been recently looking at new cars in Europe and there is s massive difference in quality at all price tiers between Chinese and non Chinese cars.

    Mind you, Chinese cars are often assembled in Europe and have to comply with all the safety laws etc, but at any price tier it feels you're getting a car that is 10k+ more expensive than it is.

    And that's despite EU putting (non sense) sanctions on Chinese cars and components.

    If Chinese were free to compete square and fair they would've long swallowed the European industry.

    Like look at Volkswagen and what you get at 40k. A non base Golf, maybe?

    It also grinds my nerves that European cars are less expensive anywhere but in Europe.

    You go to US and they are like 15/20% less expensive.

    by epolanski
  • At least in the USA, a new BMW is a high-end car. Not a supercar, but beyond the reach of most of the car-buying public. I'm surprised that the generally quite wealthy owners of those cars would tolerate that.
    by SoftTalker
  • What a spectacularly efficient means to devalue a once “premium” brand. I guess “good will” didn’t get its own line item on their balance sheet.
    by voakbasda

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