Why are you reviewing a 'pre-production model' and making excuses for the horrible materials on the inside? Very unlike you.

New X3 is Cheap, Brutalist, and Tacky

Hi! Have the top parts of rear doors the same material/quality than front doors or it is similar to new VW Tiguan regarding cost-cutting?

USA and South African built! No thank you - built outside of Germany is not a BMW... and South Africa lol, really... just wow! No way I'm buying this plastic cheap tacky money grab... BMW is dropping the quality.... we want classy, soft touch refined interiors, look at Lexus, they are holding their build, design, and material quality strong.

Absolutely. BMW needs a new head of design that is brave enough to ditch the kidney grill. BMW has its own logo and emblem. Designers can and must use that as the symbol of BMW not that ugly grill.

the skytop concept car showed that they can produce beautiful cars but something gets lost in translation in production. let's hope it's a sign of what's to come and they're going to phase out the current controversial design language. wouldn't hold my breath though.

I'm starting to think BMW already has new designers and seems like they mostly come with the Korea.. because lately their designs isn't German anymore

This is so frumpy and just odd. No style, no classic teutonic look not even futuristic and forward leaning like the Bangle era. You know things are bad when you long for Bangles designs. Looking at it from the rear 3/4 it's just shockingly inept design. Also the complete deletion of anything resembling a rear bumper means a full tailgate replacement if anything bigger than a shopping cart bumps you in the rear. BMW has completely lost the plot.

Do they? sales are increasing, profits being made. online sentiment doesn't reflect reality sadly...

and price increase

Yip.. the cost cutting on the ix1 and ix2 are very noticable... No scuff plates for starters, thinking no one would notice

My 2023 x1 looks much better inside. Very evident cost cutting on doors and dash. Sad to see.

Looks like they have installed way more hard plastics on the inside.. Also the seats don't look premium at all..

Leather no longer stock. This cheap vinyl/cloth and partial leather is terrible. Honda and Mazda have some better stock options

spot on mate! 👌

Bruh 😂😂You been living under a rock the past decade? Every new car interior especially EV models have ambient lighting like this. Jesus Christ, this is nothing new. The Mercedes EQS has a 1 inch wide light band running around the entire dash into the side door panels and even the footwells front and rear 😂.

Not to mention the recent M2 the ugliest BMW.

Do you really think it is "Design Team" that draws something and says - "Alright this is what we are going to make" :D There were probably quite many quite different projects, at the end of the day it is the Board that selects and orders development.

Why would they fire them? They make designs that sell better and better. It would be the stupidest move ever. And they are very good, if you see some of their press sketches their work is top notch

Yet BMW continues to break it's own sales records. Last year the M division posted its highest sales numbers ever for the company. Yet all I see are armchair warriors on KZfaq complain M cars are ugly 😂😂😂. Well I'm sure ya'll ain't buying them so please continue moaning. It's great entertainment 😂

Chinese people like this kind of design, that's why BMW keep doing this and the sale number still going up

Except his designs grew their sales more than ever before. It would be the stupidest move ever firing him. And this X3 is a lot better than the other recent ones, the grille is separated, it's doesn't look like a Kia (as the new 1 series), it doesn't have split taillights, it doesn't have the bad grille headlight proportion of the 5 series, it doesn't have the overcrowded bumper of the 5 series and so on. This is quite similar to the X1 and will definitely grow on people, like the X1 did.

@@mihnealazar7039 "It doesn't look like a Kia" Really? That is an achievement now? Hey, how about making BMW look like a pile of s...t? Then it will not look like any other car at all!

​@@mihnealazar7039don't go into design

​​@@user-hz3eu5in it's not an achievement, but it's a step in the right direction. I simply stated a reality. This BMW looks like a BMW, not like a Kia or other cars, which was a problem for some cars like the new 1 Series. It also has a separated grille, which is something people have been requesting for a while and they delivered. This X3 may look like shit to you now, but in 2 years you probably won't be saying that. When the new X1 launched it was full of people like you in the comments. Now it's one of the best selling (if not the best selling) premium C-SUV in the world and I see very few people criticise it.

You blind? ​@@mihnealazar7039

Bmw es basura... Cada vez mas feo el diseño.. mi próximo coche sera un Mercedes.

Now the illuminated 🐽 makes me crack up when I see it in the rear view mirror

Now the design of the car has become scary.... 🤣

Fire the designers responsible for putting you as the number 1 premium car manufacturer in the world for several years running? 😂😂 So happy these companies are in the hands of sane people and not people like you.

I get that BMW is great and I have a 21 x3 and I had a 15 m4… it’s just that this new one looks plain and boring.

@@ferdl7940 Buy something else then. Vote with your wallet. The complaints here on KZfaq and even BMW forums won't sway them to change their product pipelines. People have been saying "Fire the designers" for the last decade and every year the company just continues to sell more and more cars so clearly the designers are doing something right. Its almost become routine at this point. New BMW unveiling !!! ** Head over to comments section ** ** Cue everyone crying & moaning about the designers/company ** Rinse & Repeat

Pre production model materials aren’t final doubt it’s what production version will look like

@@RayanMADAO They are cutting costs like never before. Expect to see it in the production car... Even Chinese cars are today more posh then German "premium" brands.

Did you listen to what he was saying on mute? He said not final materials. Carry on hating.

Pre-production!

@@paulklavas668 sure hope so lol

mazda and bmw moving in opposite directions atm

Mazda is the only car maker with the right mind today, IMO.

Cx70 looks amazing. And better performance than regular x3

Germans can't afford expensive interiors like Chinese brands.

Its literally mentioned several times in this video that this is a pre-production model and the interior materials will change for the final production model 😂😂😂😂😂😂

​@@blackpanda7612 That's a PR lie.

They do if you want to cut costs, which is what they did here.

Thank you very much for your interest in this topic. I also bought cars with animal skin leather seats before I did my research and got to know the industry. The most important thing is: With today's modern materials, you have nothing to lose, just to gain. You achieve the same kind of luxury and comfort or even better while having the same or better durability with less impact on humans, animals and the environment. You can use fabric/cloth, microfibre or leatherette. The classic approach is using oil/plastic as source material. Overall, a vehicle contains about 300 kg plastic. A car seat needs about 5 kg plastic. So the overall plastic share for the seats is very low and it is at this moment the most efficient way to produce a car seat. A couple of litres of fuel equals a car seat basically. So if you want to save oil/plastic, rather look at consumption for energy, fuel and heating and to other car parts than the seat. Note that animal skin leather also always contains a plastic coating for durability. However, long-term we should of course find raw oil alternatives. So going further, seats can be made from recyclables (e.g. from PET-bottles or old fishing nets) or even increased share of plant-based materials (like pine oil, canola oil or start-up materials like Pinatex from pineapple leaves or Desertex from cactus fibre or the mixed-plant-based Mirum, so be seen at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZeRgb2W1MfYnXk.html). On a calculation base, by ditching animal skin leather from car interiors, the amount of emissions (CO2e) is reduced by 85 (!) % (www.press.bmwgroup.com/africa-dom-easteurope/article/detail/T0403389EN/on-the-market-from-2023:-bmw-and-mini-models-with-vegan-interiors?language=en) - and that is a very conservative calculation. So it is at this moment the most important thing you can do to make car interiors more sustainable. A good example for high-end luxury with ventilated animal free seats is the BMW X7 with Sensafin: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9aCgc6IntTWoqs.html And the Kia EV9 with plant-based oil share: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNyImLOCzsWxcZ8.html New leatherette materials can be superior in every aspect, even for cleaning: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q59kjLt7nJi5hHU.html More and more natural materials are rising: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLiDprt2092sdKM.html Also check out what the animal skin leather industry tried to with our channel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLaPdtl90ceqnH0.html For seeing how the animals are being treated and transported in the global leather industry, watch this footage: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtGadqSe1pfDaHk.html Note that the footage is genuine and was recorded by a highly decorated investigative journalist in Germany I know myself personally. Also a group of researchers and German journalists from public media could recent directly trace the connection between car animal leather production and illegal burning down Amazon rain forest: www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/ard-story/videos/illegales-leder-video-100.html In a high animal skin grade, the animals are specifically raised for this matter. However even if meat is the "first" misuse case, the hide remains a profitable body part. That means: If manufacturers put animal leather in a car and you demand it as a customer, you give your money to an industry that earns money by oppressing humans, animals and harms the environment, you make them more profitable. Alternatively, you could support industries with your wallet which try to improve the sustainability of materials. Also, if you turn the argument around to "meat is the waste of the leather industry" you realize that it doesn't make sense (and is ethically doubtful) to discuss the primary use of individual body parts of mammals. Mind experiment: You are getting slain down on the street; would it matter to you if it was for your smartphone or for your purse? Remember that animal skin leather is no different to fur, fur is just leather where the hair is still on. And fur is widely not accepted for clothing anymore, and of course not for cars. We cannot change what we have bought in the past, but with more information and compassion we can change how we decide in the future. For a great insight into sustainability in the automotive industry, you can also check out our extensive documentary: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y56Xgbudt63Sl3U.html

​@@autogefuehl The problem is: who does/do fund all those research? You can find articles proving coffee is a carcinogen whilst at the same time the other one(s) proving coffee is the ultimate cancer-prevention thing. You never know

@@autogefuehl Try do your research again! They don´t care about anything but MONEY! Fake "leather" is cheaper and easier to make then real leather! That´s all! There is nothing wrong say it´s cheaper and vegan friendly. 😉 But don´t make fool of us with all those saving world s***! Everyone with class always can tell difference between real and fake leather it never feels the same! Just like real fur and faux fur! Fur is and always will be accepted for clothing! Have you ever been in real high class party in winter? 😂

@@ravenheart369 Lol bet he won't respond to your reply.

ironic

BMWs are usually faster than they claim to be. 😑

It's a 70k Kia.

They just keep digging deeper and deeper.

Why would anyone pay £90k for a shyt looking X3 when you can get so many other nicer cars for that or much less

Kia has actually good quality. Bigger problem is that it looks like Kia and is way more expensive. So what's the point?

As Long as they sell for those prices, nothing will Change.

It’s not bad. Just pick the lighter color upholstery. (Usually BMW calls it “oyster”)

Cheap, Brutalist, and Tacky ...... Just terrible... It truly is depressing

A golf from 2014 has a way better interior than this. The “screen screen screen” fad is maybe not the best. It’s great for customizing it but it’s really for cutting costs. I hope we get back the interior quality of cars from 2012-2017

It looks very dark here but if you go see some photos in better lighting it's actually nice and looks more premium than the last gen, even if the materials may not be.

@@John.Christopherbmw never had cheap interiors tho

Facts

Wtf, it's way more beautiful than predecessor

X Series were always lame

“Car enthusiasts” always complaining like children… nothing new to see here

@@forestfire1231 Its called forming an opinion, you should try it sometime. Your comment makes no sense lol.

Yeah they're runing their own cars all the way to the number 1 spot of Premium Auto Manufacturer in the world for several years running. What a way to ruin your brand when you're selling more cars than you ever have in the history of your company. RUUIINNED !!!

Bmws Porsche and audi suck theyre not made for the users. The loud clicky clunky window switches and buttons is a huge buzz kill and overly loud yall tripping for buying those cars and I almost did too but I went with something way more economical and reliable . The comfort on the ahdi seats suck as well as porsche everyone I know is always questioning whether it's comfortable or not and they say that's not a good thing 😂😂 Glad I'm going with a better car that's not made by Germans who only driver Bentleys and rolls Royse. Not even drive their own bmws or audis. Maybe porsche yes cause the "thrilling sound" since they can't get off on anything else and are hypnotized by materials . (Hence d1ldos) . Screams gqy. 💀💀💀

You are right. These new BMWS are the types of cars I wouldn't mind crashing In GTA until it blows up. Lol.

The only one you can afford 😂

@@Konrad-cj8fr You just don't hate the new BMWs with enough passion

The only thing we can afford doing 😂

I think they know that a lot of people really dislike their designs, and they're just trolling us.

Honestly, I think the 7 series is nowhere as bad as how the IX, i4 and XM looks. This X3 is joining the crew of looking repulsive though.

The people on the board know what they're doing. You don't suck at your job if your company continues to break sales records and retain the number 1 spot as Premium Car Manufacturer in the world for several years running. You don't suck at your job if the M Division posts records sales for 2023 in their division history. However you do suck if you take the opinions of a handful of enthusiasts that are unable to embrace change and pass it off as the majority consensus. Moral of the story is don't suck by trying to take the opinions of a few and pass it off as opinions of the many.

They know their designs are polarising, and that's exactly what makes them unique and sell in greater numbers than ever before.

And neither of them were BMW!

They found designers on Temu

Completely agree. It started with the ghastly 4 series, then the 2, the 7... now its across the range. They all look they've been designed by a pair of 3 year olds who never speak; using Duplo as their inspiration

Do you know if PHEV is coming to Canada?

30 petrol 255cp mild hibrid

This new m50 looks like trash compared to LCI G01. Absolutely talentless designers.

Ugly and cheaply built. We need i6 engines, real leather and wood. And real German designers.

Your honest opinion new X3 vs old X3?

Cayenne is next level, way above bmw

I'm considering the X5 50e now, with like 10k on the odo. How do you find it?

@@drunkenwhiskeyeu Best car for the $$$! I literally last filled up on May 6th, and I’m crushing with half a tank lol If you daily commute less than 50 miles, you’re Golden! (Also, the torque is amazing) I’m coming out of a 2021 M550i 530hp and 550lb/ft of torque… And I cannot feel the difference in torque! You will love it

Super happy I'm about to pick up a '25 x5 50e. Best of classic design styling and modern technology. I plan to own it for a long time. Hopefully in 10+ years, BMW will learn their errors correct course on their design

@@opticzar I'm Glad there's another brother from a different mother. :-D My thoughts exactly, though I'm going to get a dealership car. It's around 1/3 of the price off.

So you buy an upbadged q5 instead? Porsche only makes 2 cars worth buying

Porsche and audi suck . The loud clicky clunky window switches and buttons is a huge buzz kill and overly loud yall tripping for buying those cars and I almost did too but I went with something way more economical and reliable . The comfort on the ahdi seats suck as well as porsche everyone I know is always questioning whether it's comfortable or not and they say that's not a good thing 😂😂 Glad I'm going with a better car that's not made by Germans who only driver Bentleys and rolls Royse. Not even drive their own bmws or audis. Maybe porsche yes cause the "thrilling sound" since they can't get off on anything else and are hypnotized by materials . (Hence d1ldos) . Screams gqy. 💀💀💀

its all eletric?

the f97 LCI X3M is still better than any macan lol. this piece of junk just reduced the price on that beauty.

We are lucky its not a phallus sticking up through that gear shift ring.

I thougt they are Not serious about the door handles. 😂 Insinde and outide cheap plastic.

all the spam fake bot accounts are saying this redesign looks good 🤣

The G01 X3 M40i VERY good looking and peak BMW when it comes to refining their classic design language.

WOuld be very strange to think the designers is trying to sabotage the brand when sales are climbing year after year. The M3/M4 posted record sales numbers for the M division last year😂😂. I think people like you need to chill. BMW is selling more cars today than they ever had in the history of the company

@@blackpanda7612 despite the apparent design flaws, this is not subjective anymore, efficiency of the drive-trains is helping BMW. This is like saying only 100% perfect products are sold. Sales can be even better with better design. Take the new Apple MacBooks, they were having great sales and dominating with the new M series chips, but Apple did go back and add the headphone jack and additional slots because it was a shit decision to reduce them despite sales increases.

thanks keep tuning in !

Thanks for giving his channel more exposure with the view lol

That took skill to show that mess and be positive in your presentation.

Give the comment a second read

X1 looks better.

@@aye3678 go see a doctor

@@aye3678 Agree

the exterior is whatever but that fabric on the inside is horrible.

@@pjp13579bmw x1 looks so much better more bmw like more aggressive more sharp. I think unhave to see a doctor

This German channel doesn’t care about what the US is charging. Signed, Australia (where it’s also a rip off hehe).

Damn, my 2022 M40i was more than €100K in Austria 😭😭

@@yutubabeWhat?😂 My absolutely fully loaded 2023 X4 M40i is $73,000 pre tax.

​​​@@dr_slim_shadyi got fully loaded 2024 m40 for 70k

@@dr_slim_shady I'm serious 😂. Thankfully I got the car with company price, which brings the price down to around €60K.

the interior is unforgivable

Reduce the size of the grille and remove the tacky lighting feature, and I think the exterior is fine. Not good, or special, but fine. That interior is crap though.

Idk it’s how I feel. BMW snobs always prefer the past look. But in person the new 7 series looks great. Designs change. Time to move on. And for bmw with their usually ultra conservative design cues imo the change couldn’t come fast enough. The ppl bitching are not going to buy an x3 either way

Heil Auto 😅

Baboons butt

yeah the grill of the plug-in hybrid is just ridiculous

It's actually an OTG!

Such an original comment…

the felt interior is disgusting

So much for sheer driving pleasure 😢

Mercedes isn't better in quality and reliability, and don't get me started on a 4 cylinder hybrid 63 badged cars like C63 and GLC63

@@seansiew5629 Mercedes is even worse. Looks like shit the entire lineup too.

Will be like this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j61indxnusyonYU.htmlsi=tJiYojUmWimr2x5P

Thank you very much for your interest in this topic. I also bought cars with animal skin leather seats before I did my research and got to know the industry. The most important thing is: With today's modern materials, you have nothing to lose, just to gain. You achieve the same kind of luxury and comfort or even better while having the same or better durability with less impact on humans, animals and the environment. You can use fabric/cloth, microfibre or leatherette. The classic approach is using oil/plastic as source material. Overall, a vehicle contains about 300 kg plastic. A car seat needs about 5 kg plastic. So the overall plastic share for the seats is very low and it is at this moment the most efficient way to produce a car seat. A couple of litres of fuel equals a car seat basically. So if you want to save oil/plastic, rather look at consumption for energy, fuel and heating and to other car parts than the seat. Note that animal skin leather also always contains a plastic coating for durability. However, long-term we should of course find raw oil alternatives. So going further, seats can be made from recyclables (e.g. from PET-bottles or old fishing nets) or even increased share of plant-based materials (like pine oil, canola oil or start-up materials like Pinatex from pineapple leaves or Desertex from cactus fibre or the mixed-plant-based Mirum, so be seen at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZeRgb2W1MfYnXk.html). On a calculation base, by ditching animal skin leather from car interiors, the amount of emissions (CO2e) is reduced by 85 (!) % (www.press.bmwgroup.com/africa-dom-easteurope/article/detail/T0403389EN/on-the-market-from-2023:-bmw-and-mini-models-with-vegan-interiors?language=en) - and that is a very conservative calculation. So it is at this moment the most important thing you can do to make car interiors more sustainable. A good example for high-end luxury with ventilated animal free seats is the BMW X7 with Sensafin: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9aCgc6IntTWoqs.html And the Kia EV9 with plant-based oil share: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNyImLOCzsWxcZ8.html New leatherette materials can be superior in every aspect, even for cleaning: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q59kjLt7nJi5hHU.html More and more natural materials are rising: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLiDprt2092sdKM.html Also check out what the animal skin leather industry tried to with our channel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLaPdtl90ceqnH0.html For seeing how the animals are being treated and transported in the global leather industry, watch this footage: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtGadqSe1pfDaHk.html Note that the footage is genuine and was recorded by a highly decorated investigative journalist in Germany I know myself personally. Also a group of researchers and German journalists from public media could recent directly trace the connection between car animal leather production and illegal burning down Amazon rain forest: www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/ard-story/videos/illegales-leder-video-100.html In a high animal skin grade, the animals are specifically raised for this matter. However even if meat is the "first" misuse case, the hide remains a profitable body part. That means: If manufacturers put animal leather in a car and you demand it as a customer, you give your money to an industry that earns money by oppressing humans, animals and harms the environment, you make them more profitable. Alternatively, you could support industries with your wallet which try to improve the sustainability of materials. Also, if you turn the argument around to "meat is the waste of the leather industry" you realize that it doesn't make sense (and is ethically doubtful) to discuss the primary use of individual body parts of mammals. Mind experiment: You are getting slain down on the street; would it matter to you if it was for your smartphone or for your purse? Remember that animal skin leather is no different to fur, fur is just leather where the hair is still on. And fur is widely not accepted for clothing anymore, and of course not for cars. We cannot change what we have bought in the past, but with more information and compassion we can change how we decide in the future. For a great insight into sustainability in the automotive industry, you can also check out our extensive documentary: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y56Xgbudt63Sl3U.html

I think they forgot to remove the bread from OTG.

They're called nostrils 😂

I remember he said a Panzer of some sort

In a video from a couple of yearas ago he said he owned an X3 m40i.

I think he said a Jaguar

I think he mentioned Honda Civic Type R

I'm pretty sure he said a Ford Ecosport

The materials in this car are better than the tiguan.

@@JohnGuidetti751 They absolutely are not. Cheap tacky everywhere

@@John.Christopher The door card from the front to back isn't even the same material in the Tiguan hard plastic in the back. Furthermore even the paint colour you can see inside the A pillar. Don't be so silly to think a car from the class below would be better.