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Originally Posted by JsL
Agree. Engine, chassis and exterior are great.
But, that interior looks very similar to the $30/day economy rental cars I get for work.
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No, it doesn't. I just got back from a trip where I had one of those rental cars, so I have a pretty good idea (and I do this quite often).
It's amazing how the bias persists. I had a 2005 C-class "luxury" and now the BMW, it ain't all that and a bag of potato chips, especially when the BMW 3 follows the same basic interior format of the previous models, looking extremely dated IMO, but apart from my opinion, these cars have tons of plastic and if you aren't seeing it, you're blind. I'm not sure what people are expecting, maybe CNCed from a solid 7' square block of aluminum, with inlaid diamonds and goat-gonad leather padded with the under-feathers of emperor penguins? I will say the 80-100K cars do have some pretty serious interior upgrades, but we aren't talking about those and even at that level it's spotty.