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cheapbag214s · Posted: Thu 2:28, 05 Sep 2013 Post subject: Series shapes up

Series shapes up
the car people are fixing the mistakes created by cars that keep growing in size. Which cars are the replacement for the Ford Sierra and the BMW 3 series of the 80s. Mondeo and current 3? Then why are they twice as big? Ford too will probably need to create a car to fill the gap between the Focus and the Mondeo too. The Focus is having to go back to replacing the Escort, while the mondeo is really a Granada. Where is the Sierra? Same thing for BMW. Cars need to stay in their size categories, which are mini, small car (escort), medium (sierra),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], family (granada-mondeo) and luxury limo (7 series- Scorpio- etc). You cover those classes you wont need to keep switching so much you car makers you!
Car makers all have a much bigger range of models than they used to because it's cost-effective (most cars are pizza cars - same floorpan, different body).
Why shouldn't manufacturers offer a wide choice of models? It means we can each choose a car that suits us rather than the best (or least-worst) compromise. That's why modern superminis have abandoned the packaging war and gone for style - if you need interior space or fleixibility the same manufacturer (or one of heir badge-engineered clones) usually offers a mini-MPV.
It's inevitable that every time a model is replaced the new one will be bigger - if it doesn't offer more interior space and comfort then people will complain the older model was better,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. The end result is manufacturers have to fit a smaller model into their range. The Polo is bigger than the Mk1 Golf so VW had to make the Lupo Fox. Every manufacturer is doing it - how many generations before BMW have to make a 0 series,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]?
As for size categories - why? Who cares if you car is small, medium or somewhere between? The only reason to fit models into categories is that those that don't aren't usually a sales success because buyers are confused. The Citroen BX and Volvo 440 spring to mind - too big to be Escort competitors and too small to be Mondeo equivalents. Personally I thought they were both pretty much the ideal size of car for me - big enough to carry 4 people and luggage in reasonable comfort (most small hatches were too cramped in the back) but not too massive to park in town.
Long live huge model ranges,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], consumer choice and cars that don't fit conveniently into categories!
Gone are the days when a family of four were all happy in their 4-door saloon, they insist on taking so much stuff with them whenever they go out that they think only a large SUV or an MPV is big enough!!
Next time you see a young couple with a baby or small child in the car park, just have a look at how much unnecessary bits and bobs they're carrying around in their boot on the pretence they might need it.
Quite simply, if people didn't carry around all the junk in their cars they wouldn't need to be so big. It might help the environment too.
BMW can not give away the GT5 in the states,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and this 4 series may linger on the sales floor too. What is being requested is a 1 series 4 door (for those that want a small car), or the sport wagons that are not offered here anymore. All though both GT5 and 4 make sense for the family types plus the gear that (in the USA) is being required to be carrie for their baby monsters. Their only choise in BMW line? SAV. But then maybe they will go for the 4 series if it's badged a GT3? I know that they love the new released X3.
There was a time when I wondered why you would want to drive anything else other than a BMW (I list a 1997 320i touring,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a 1999 328i saloon, a 1999 540i and a 2001 535i Sport as models I have owned). Now, I don't feel that way at all! No longer exclusive, no longer good to look at, no longer amongst the most reliable and no longer user friendly interiors.
I switched to Audi but now drive a Honda and a Mazda. The competition between the Germans is out of control and their products have become uglier as a result,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Call it a 5 door 3 series,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], base it on the 3 series completely non of this raised rear seat extra plush nonsense,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], give it a rear wiper like a proper hatchback and more resolved styling and it will sell by the bucket load,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], especially in the UK,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we have never really been fans of family saloons. If BMW,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Audi and VW made proper 5 door A4,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 3 series and Passats I predict the sale of 4 doors would decline dramatically. Give us what the people want,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not what you think we want, the failure of the 5GT should be warning enough.
Call it a 5 door 3 series, base it on the 3 series completely non of this raised rear seat extra plush nonsense, give it a rear wiper like a proper hatchback and more resolved styling and it will sell by the bucket load, especially in the UK, we have never really been fans of family saloons. If BMW,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Audi and VW made proper 5 door A4, 3 series and Passats I predict the sale of 4 doors would decline dramatically. Texture soft,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], absorb sweat, permeability is strong,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Seiko embroidery, excellent workmanship. The diesel engined cars are the best in the market. Excellent fuel economy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], huge performance and low road tax banding.
It looks different,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as the GT does,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], if I was in the market for a motorway eating family car, paid for by my company this would be on my list.
Hatchback versatility, build quality and if going by the success of the GT is anything to go by nobody in my street, possibly in my village will have one too.
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