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Originally Posted by BMWrules7
All of this talk of CF is meant to sound like it directly benefits the customer.
The reality is the BMW is using these materials to reduce production costs.
What's going to happen when these cars are in a bad accident 12 years from now when the CF is dry rot and over stressed from traveling 150,000 miles in the California desert.
The other problem of course is not the CF and not the aluminum/steel alloys. The problem areas are going to be the places where the CF is merged with the metal structure. Mark my words, over time the CF to metal joints are going to fail. Especially during a previous accident. If the car was 100% CF or 100% metal that's one thing. But, the advertisements clearly show the CF being places intermittently. This will be the bane of the 1st gen CF cars.
Ever here of the Comet? (Not the car, but the plane). The pressurization tech was new and misunderstood.
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Oh the Comet, those early riveting techniques lack of understanding on cabin pressurization lead to early frame implosions
Did anyone notice the cabin perfume system, it is in one of the images. It is the center button of the A/C touch system.