![]() The cooking 230i, despite its name, is a 2.0-liter four. When it comes to drivetrain options there’s an element of monkey paw wish granting. Of the current range, it’s the one closest in spirit, if not execution to those old athletic three boxes. ![]() That being said, the 2 Series remains something of a shibboleth for the BMW faithful. Not some adolescent wank fantasy about what BMW used to be 30-odd years ago. But in our technology-drenched and attention deficit present, BMW is designing cars it knows it can sell, and that is the context we should apply to its current output. ![]() I have criticized them myself in the past. Is there a reasonable design discussion about their current direction to be had? Sure. These people need to stop thinking BMW makes cars exclusively for enthusiasts and journalists. They need to sell cars worldwide to a much wider audience, and with vastly different safety and efficiency standards. BMW’s market no longer consists of German CEOs needing to storm the Autobahn at midnight with Kraftwerk thumping out the Blaupunkt. You’re talking about a series of cars that span, charitably, two decades, which is a relatively small timeframe for a company that started building Austin Sevens under license in 1928. A subset of cars, consisting mainly of the E30, E36, E46, E39 and E38 (but curiously not the original E21 3 series) and a few other outliers, have been glorified and masturbated over to such ridiculous lengths by simpering shit-gibbons with BMW roundels tattooed on their dicks that any new one that doesn’t meet the untouchable perfection of earlier models is taking a giant steamy dump over everything that they worship, and how very dare BMW do that. The hate-boners from BMW fans that accompany every new release from Munich are getting increasingly fucking tiresome. Will the Armchair Design Critics Shut Up Already
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