{"id":294624,"date":"2016-11-01T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=294624"},"modified":"2024-02-26T23:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:02:27","slug":"messy-designs-bmw-one-good-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/messy-designs-bmw-one-good-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The messy designs of BMW, and the one good one"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>Like Audi of late, BMW just doesn\u2019t seem to understand that their cars need to be designed differently to each other. Car design language aside, almost all of their models look as if they\u2019ve been taken out of the same parts bins, slightly elongated here and there and set off into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Take the new X1 for example. It doesn\u2019t have a distinctive form. In a side by side comparison to the X3, you would be hard-pressed to tell them apart. 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