Best answer, because it was not conceived by BMW, therefore feels least like one.

If a man doesn’t have time AND money, he’s doing something wrong.

Duuude, don’t diss a 3-cyl engine. I’ve been driving a 3 cyl Focus (a 1.3 tonne car) for 2 years, never noticed one of them was missing. Then again it’s one of the best 3 cyl engines around.

Had the eXtra Trunk Space as a rental this year, nice looking but very underwhelming for a luxury car. Left with a big taste of GM half-assery.

No mate, as the article pointed out, they’re chromosomes (probably something to do with chrome)

The car in question is a Mazda (they teamed up with Fiat on this one), with a different engine and body panels.

Plate: Zurich Switzerland, they also use a pretty cool typeface on their plates.

It must have been a manual. - that joke doesn’t really work in european context.

Aren’t these threads all about variety? It’s beautiful to the author and it’s less than $10k.

I’ve had the same sort of eye or some american metal, sadly too broke :(

You’d probably get this brought to the U.S. for a lot less than 10k

... a mechanic who likes to play, HOSEMANIA!!! ;)

being a GM product you could probably swap an Opel something transmission in there.

I know it’s a bit unfair but you can get this for about $3.5k US in Italy.

take the bumper off...

might not be a good car, but it’s the better looking of Corvettes after the 1 and 2

I guess you’d fall in the ‘trunk’ person category then. The car’s already massive and that happens to be, besides a wagon which would’ve caused an even bigger *-storm, the most effective way to package the thing with some decent rear head-room. I think they did a good job. The problem here is, that it looks too much…

My Ford Focus looks massive, but that’s the problem with modern cars I suppose.

Apparently they’ve played with the idea for a couple of decades, just never had enough money/balls to put it into production.

Never got the hate for the Panamera, a well proportioned, coherent design. I’m guessing it’s more of an America problem, they seem to dislike everything (SUVs xcepted) with a hatch.