€102,800 to €125,000 lol
Yeah I know it's a luxury car but still
BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range
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#72It’s a shame it’s quite possibly the ugliest car I’ve seen in a long time.
Any BMW with a grill smaller than an ASHPD portal is palatable.
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That's prior art if there ever was prior art. It's just unicode U+1D54F
BMW doesn't seem to use that specific X anywhere else for any of their EV lineup. Even the back of the car uses a normal "X" character. I think it's some mandate to give their car models some kind of "signature" headlight design.
BMW did have the _iconic_ "halo angel eye" headlights in the mid-2000s - the most iconic headlight signature at least in my memory. So your point would make sense.
Those were often copied by enthusiasts and "ported" to other cars via aftermarket headlights.
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1MW charging is a cute stunt but the economics simply do not make sense. The amount of copper and equipment to support that rate is ridiculous.
I don't doubt that, however they seem to have approx. 500 of these chargers across China.
So, basically none
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me the last generation, F-series, was pretty much e46 3.0. You can only iterate so many times. Neue Klasse is a bit odd but I thought the same thing about the F and G model runs. I’ll need to see it in person. BMW is dethroning Mercedes and continually beating Audi sales in the US. I’m surprised so many people would buy a car if they thought it was ugly. Benz reliability has tanked and Audi is lackluster as usual…
I finally gave up on bmw last year (after 15 years and 4 models) due to their reliability and cost of repair. I don’t think I’d touch them after spending thousands chasing down coolant repairs due to poor design (plastic parts, high labor cost location to inspect and replace).
Yes my wife’s x7 has been through 2 water pumps and now the control and thrust arms were leaking hydraulic fluid. Only 60k miles.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
There have been a few highly publicized situations where the pack gets damaged (road damage), and is not covered. The replacement is more the new car. I think it’s overblown. A combination of it all just being new and getting figured out, and manufacturers selling the cars at a loss (for various reasons), but not the spare parts.
Isn't that also true if the engine and transmission also took significant road damage and requires replacement on an ICE BMW? Breaking news: expensive components of cars are expensive.
Crate engines sell for between $3000 and $12000 for cars. Transmissions $2000 to $5000. (Prices from the first source I found, a reasonable sample range but I suspect you can find things outside the range) In stock and ready to pick-up today at a warehouse near you.
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#77Remember when they released the i3? From the company that released some pretty amazing looking cars, that was their first entry into the EV market? They certainly didn't want them to sell and were going to use the low sales as evidence that no one wants EVs. Now I fear it's too late for them as they're going to get their lunch eaten by Chinese EV companies that actually put in a good faith effort.
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I'm curious what is in your rubric to determine that a self driving car that doesn't need supervision is a worse driver than a car that does, by your own admission, need supervision.
99% of my FSD disengagements are navigation related: leaving it too late to merge into an exit lane (or CA drivers speeding up to not let me merge), not being aggressive enough at going into the opposing lane to overtake a stationary truck (though, it's a lot better at this in recent versions). I can only recall one "oh shit" moment on an older FSD version when it carrier too much speed down a steep hill in SF and we…
This is all about problems with FSD.
Why is a car where you don't have disengagements a worse driver?
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I have an iX, the predecessor for these. The freeway automatic mode works well, that’s all I really want.
Yeah, BMW's self driving is the level of self driving I want. In my X7 I drove across North Dakota and barely touched the wheel.
In endless LA stop and go it’s a miracle
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People often think that Tesla is neck-and-neck with Waymo, but Waymo does 500,000 unsupervised rides/week and Tesla has done 0 ... ever.
That's completely false to say Tesla has done 0 ever. They have a fleet, admittedly small, of unsupervised robotaxis operating.
Unsupervised means no one in the car or remotely monitoring in real time. Last I heard, Tesla always had one or the other.