Re: Review of our beloved Crossfire
I've just looked through the MSN list of 50 ugliest cars. I obvioulsy don't agree with the Crossfire being in there. Anyone who says the Crossfire is ugly simply has dog-poo in their eyes, and it isn't the car! It is one of the best looking cars on the road today. On a trip which required a longish motorway drive with a friend of mine my friend told me that people in the car next to us were staring. I couldn't look, but he said he saw what he assumed to be the wife mouthing "that's really nice". Noone, apart from the Clarkson influenced person I mentioned earlier, dislikes the look of my Crossfire. Noone is indifferent about it either. They all love it.
I can think of a few cars to put in the 50 ugliest cars list long before the Crossfire needed to go in there.
BMW 1-Series Hatchback. Most ugly hatchback for decades.
BMW 3-Series Saloon. The back end is just wrong. (3-Series Coupe puts this right and is a nice looking car for it)
BMW 7-Series, especially before they fixed it!
BMW X5. Lumpen, and pointless.
BMW X3. As above, but smaller.
BMW X6. Yeuch.
Before anyone says I am a BMW hater, I'd like to point out that I like the Z4, the 3-Series Coupe, the 5-Series isn't bad, the 6-Series is ok, not exactly what I'd call a looker, but not too grotesque.
I find it a joke that people will put up with such poor taste in styling for the sake of branding and badge kudos.