[BMWCSRegistry] Grill cloth & Other Car Related Remarks

[Art Wegweiser]

Carlos,

I think they changed the vents because they could change them and 
design departments always need to show how on top of things they are 
with a new squiggle in the chrome trim or door handle modification. * 
Especially in these perilous days of car sales.

  How else can every car company on Earth almost always advertise 
their latest model as "all new"?
I've yet to see a TV ad this year that didn't claim "all new".  It's 
rather a weasel statement anyway, "all new" what?
It's analogous to the constantly repeated "Ditech.com" quick and easy 
loan and those insurance outfits providing quick and easy coverage 
for your car but the teeny tiny print doesn't stay on the screen long 
enough to read.
And while ranting about such things, I wonder what a "well qualified 
buyer" might be to obtain one of those 1.9% (never 2%) car loans.

Perhaps a fresh new approach might be to simply say,
"some new and improved features for 2007".   Except in some cases the 
improved part is a damned lie.

For BMW, getting rid of that awful iDrive thing would be an improvement.
Squooshing the grill down more and more will eventually get them back 
to the 507 - but still with Chris Bangle's lovely body.

Art


Art
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Art Wegweiser, BMWCCA Member #12163
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Erik Wegweiser, Webmeister
   
Ilse         72 3.0 CSi   2 262 736   Fjord & Polaris Neu
Gretel       95 E36 M3   ..EH06546    Arktissilber metallic

Plus a couple of Subaru to abuse in the Winter.


At 2:48 PM -0400 3/26/07, Carlos A. Perez wrote:
>Thought the 2000CS approach was pretty elegant...wonder why they changed it.
>Only reason can think of would be a desire for "modernized" vent system and
>a/c integration.
>The E3 used the round aircraft style vents if I recall correctly.
>
>Like your suggestion to cut away old and glue new to the back without trying
>to split the piece. At the very least you'd expect lacquered wood chips to
>go cracking & flying; but then again I'm no surgeon.
>
>Of course you could support your local woodcarver and have a hefty cover
>piece made - see attached.
>
>Maybe install some hideous blue neon behind some lacey white fishnet - ugh!
>
>Regards,
>Carlos


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