Hey, I felt the same way about you when I first got my tC...and to some extent I still do. I had someone just the other day tell me that my tC looks like one of the new BMWs.
you felt the same way about me? i'm sure that's not what you meant. haha!Originally posted by basilisk4@Aug 5 2005, 12:22 PM
Hey, I felt the same way about you when I first got my tC...and to some extent I still do. I had someone just the other day tell me that my tC looks like one of the new BMWs.
My boss does have one of those new BMWs (6 Series Coupe), and from the front in many ways it does look similar because our headlights are a blatent copy of theirs without the HIDs and the curvature of the hood is almost identicle. You park the two next to each other and from the front at least they do look quite similar except for the Tc being narrower. And I think our rims are a bit nicer too. The BMW does have a more conservative look though (especially from the side angle), some people may think the Tc looks a little goofy while nobody will think that of the BMW. And although I think our center consoles are a bit nicer looking, my boss's car has a computerized navigation unit with voice recognition. You can even tell it to dial your cell phone for you as long as your cell phone has blue tooth. From the back side the Tc is a bit too squared off, it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the car (probably has to do with the hatch). The BMW's rear is too round though. His also has a V-8 350 hp engine.Originally posted by basilisk4@Aug 5 2005, 09:22 AM
Hey, I felt the same way about you when I first got my tC...and to some extent I still do. I had someone just the other day tell me that my tC looks like one of the new BMWs.
Good thing about non-Bimmers: no iDrive.Originally posted by fromos@Aug 5 2005, 05:33 PM
You can even tell it to dial your cell phone for you as long as your cell phone has blue tooth. From the back side the Tc is a bit too squared off, it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the car. The BMW's rear is too round though.
Also, take comfort in the knowledge that maybe one in 10 of those people actually owns his/her car.Originally posted by shifter@Aug 5 2005, 05:23 PM
In NYC, in less than 5 minutes sometimes I have 3 or 4 BMW 7 series driving by, going on to highway I can see 2 or 3 BMW x5 series driving next to each other (silly, but, yeah). All those Benz blinks blinks look so fimilar to each other I lost count which is the most expensive and which is the cheapest. They are expensive, but at the same time they blend in like sheeps in a herd, because their makers don't want to "offend" their loyal buyers. Which tc doesn't suffer from, because it's new.
Yes. BMWs are popular lease cars. A high residual value makes them pretty inexpensive to lease and many of them are driven for a few years that way. They then hit the used car market at the dealer or a CarMax.Originally posted by basilisk4@Aug 8 2005, 06:23 AM
Also, take comfort in the knowledge that maybe one in 10 of those people actually owns his/her car.