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You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 6:44 AM
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Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 6:50 AM
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Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 7:12 AM
Still no Chinese car....

And I'd imagine BMW will fix this to save face before the Chinese companies do.

IIRC, it also recieved an "average" not a "OMG, Death guarantee"

From Autoblog

Quote:

The BMW 5-series didn't fare as well, getting a "marginal" score on the side impact test, despite being equipped with side airbags.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/16/iihs-tests-reveals-that-money-doesnt-always-buy-safety/



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Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 7:13 AM
Emor8t wrote:Still no Chinese car....

And I'd imagine BMW will fix this to save face before the Chinese companies do.

IIRC, it also recieved an "average" not a "OMG, Death guarantee"

From Autoblog

Quote:

The BMW 5-series didn't fare as well, getting a "marginal" score on the side impact test, despite being equipped with side airbags.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/16/iihs-tests-reveals-that-money-doesnt-always-buy-safety/



Funny, when I was in China they all drove sh1t box 80's European cars ...






Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 7:20 AM
JinxedZ THE LOVED ONE wrote:
Emor8t wrote:Still no Chinese car....

And I'd imagine BMW will fix this to save face before the Chinese companies do.

IIRC, it also recieved an "average" not a "OMG, Death guarantee"

From Autoblog

Quote:

The BMW 5-series didn't fare as well, getting a "marginal" score on the side impact test, despite being equipped with side airbags.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/16/iihs-tests-reveals-that-money-doesnt-always-buy-safety/



Funny, when I was in China they all drove sh1t box 80's European cars ...


Communism and Irony will do that to a country.....






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Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:05 AM
Emor8t wrote:Still no Chinese car....

And I'd imagine BMW will fix this to save face before the Chinese companies do.

IIRC, it also recieved an "average" not a "OMG, Death guarantee"

From Autoblog

Quote:

The BMW 5-series didn't fare as well, getting a "marginal" score on the side impact test, despite being equipped with side airbags.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/16/iihs-tests-reveals-that-money-doesnt-always-buy-safety/


That's just the thing, this a 2008 model. For 2008, BMW did revisions and facelifts. Besides BMW is not new at this.

Low reliability, digusting looks (objective & IMO), now low impact ratings, so much for "sophisticated German engineering."

at its finest.





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Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:11 AM
Mr.Goodwrench-G.T. wrote:
Emor8t wrote:Still no Chinese car....

And I'd imagine BMW will fix this to save face before the Chinese companies do.

IIRC, it also recieved an "average" not a "OMG, Death guarantee"

From Autoblog

Quote:

The BMW 5-series didn't fare as well, getting a "marginal" score on the side impact test, despite being equipped with side airbags.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/16/iihs-tests-reveals-that-money-doesnt-always-buy-safety/


That's just the thing, this a 2008 model. For 2008, BMW did revisions and facelifts. Besides BMW is not new at this.

Low reliability, digusting looks (objective & IMO), now low impact ratings, so much for "sophisticated German engineering."

at its finest.


Well I'm not arguing it's safe and better engineering than everyone else, just that it's better than a Brilliance BS6.

Mercedes as well, even took its cars back after performing poorly and redesigned them and still go tthe same rating, in the same year! Talk about waste of time.





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Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:14 AM
Sophisticated German OVERengineering is more like it.

German engineers in all aspects need to have their internal organs extracted with a corkscrew.




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Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:26 AM
I hear ya dude.
Those Chinese cars are joke. lol
But seriously, if you're paying luxury money on a car, you should not get that low of rating especially on crashes, more so on side impact.
Hopefully people will be more informed on what BMW is.



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Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:41 AM
if i paid 5k for a brand new car , id kinda expect it to be a coffin on wheels

but if i paid 60k for a car , id expect to walk away , a limp would be acceptable







Re: You don't want to be in a BMW 5-series side impact crash
Friday, August 17, 2007 2:06 PM
Mr.Goodwrench-G.T. wrote:I hear ya dude.
Those Chinese cars are joke. lol
But seriously, if you're paying luxury money on a car, you should not get that low of rating especially on crashes, more so on side impact.
Hopefully people will be more informed on what BMW is.

Yeah... they suck HUGE.

BMW has taken a real hit lately, which kinda sucks. I remember them being a high-water marque.






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