New 3 Series spotted

[Sparky]

Please delete if a repost,had a quick look but couldnt see it.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/20/spy-video-f30-bmw-3-series-caught-winter-testing/

Hard to make judgement one way or the other i guess.

 

[Steedie]

Can't really make much out, the swirls hurt my eyes, but it does look big! Not sure I like what I can make out of the front either!

 

[Gav]

how do they know its a bmw?

looks more like a passat..

 

[Peerzy]

Whatever it is, it looks like they are testing the underpinnings of the car and have not really got round to designing much of the outside yet. Basic shape at best, but we've still got a while before we see anything worthy of paying any real attention to.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

Old news.. whole forum of pictures and videos here: http://www.e90post.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=305

 

[s0ck]

I don't see how they will top the E92 so the only good thing to come from a new version will be the slump in price of the former.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

I don't see how they will top the E92 so the only good thing to come from a new version will be the slump in price of the former.

(Conjecture: ) Newer technologies (a HUD, perhaps?), improved iDrive, more reliable HPFPs, no more runflats (one hopes)?

 

[Sukh]

LED lights as standard on non-LCI cars

 

[[TW]Fox]

LED lights as standard on non-LCI cars

How is that an 'improvement' over the current model - as far as BMW are concerned pre LCI is history anyway.

 

[Stolly]

So the 335i is the first car with a 6 pot ? The rest are all 2 litre 4 pots ?

Hmmm....

 

[Sukh]

I don't see how they will top the E92 so the only good thing to come from a new version will be the slump in price of the former.

(Conjecture: ) Newer technologies (a HUD, perhaps?), improved iDrive, more reliable HPFPs, no more runflats (one hopes)?

How is that an 'improvement' over the current model - as far as BMW are concerned pre LCI is history anyway.

I meant have LED lights on the new car from the start, seems like a step up to how the current crop were released originally.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

So the 335i is the first car with a 6 pot ? The rest are all 2 litre 4 pots ?

Hmmm....

What

 

[Mr-White]

Looks like a mondeo from the front

MW

 

[Draeger]

I'm not too mad keen on the paint job.

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Maybe they could stop using cast iron girders and actually trim some weight out this time.

 

[Wicksta]

how do they know its a bmw?

looks more like a passat..

Probably because:

- trademark BMW swirls on it
- Munich numberplate on it
- spotted in Munich (not Wolfsburg which is hundreds of miles away)

 

[Skidder]

looks a bit boring - I quite like the fussy lines on the current ones