Comments on: Renderings: 2010 BMW X3

By: Frederico Silva

Frederico Silva — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:48:51 +0000

hey H i diidn’t made a critique to you, i made my personal critique to the rendering, i hope you didn’t got bad impressions of me ;)

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By: Shrawan Raja

Shrawan Raja — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:27:11 +0000

Horatiu, this is a speculative illustration, and I enjoy it. The point is people need to comment on the rendering and not on the blog. You do general news, funny news, updates, technical stuff and all that..so the renderings are just one part of the entire package…if people don’t like it, they must scroll and read something else. Your traffic meter will tell you if the blog has grown or not, so you don’t have to forget the rude comments.

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By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:57:57 +0000

Point taken and I agree to a certain extend. By posting longer articles all the time and very detailed, you might lose some readers that really don’t have the patience nor care about that. There are many type of different articles on here and the reason for that: to satisfy everyone, or at least, almost everyone.

Anyway, no more commenting on this, feel free to use the Contact Us page for concerns.

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By: samK

samK — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:51:46 +0000

I think what everyone wants is Quality, not Quantity. :(

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By: The Lee

The Lee — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:11:00 +0000

Things have been hectic. The shop has been breaking our monthly sales records on a constant basis, the charity group I’m involved with is taking off and I just got back from an 11 hour drive to New Orleans to watch the team I was sponsoring run an e30 in the 24 Hours of LeMons.

For any of you that aren’t familiar with the 24 Hours of LeMons, you really should look into it.

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By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:01:04 +0000

True, we miss you here. Your input was always great and controversial :)

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By: The Lee

The Lee — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:57:32 +0000

Listen, I’m not a huge fan of the rendering stuff myself (especially when it revolves around my least favorite X series stuff), but let’s be realistic here… BMW news isn’t going to be all about CEOs and design heads stepping down or F1 races.

Don’t like the renderings Horatiu has posted? Here’s an idea: MAKE YOUR OWN. Get off your asses and put some of YOUR effort into it for a change instead of criticizing anything anyone else does because it doesn’t live up to your “standards”.

I’m thankful to have a site like this to check out. It gives me something to read while I’m trying to pass time at work (and since it’s BMW related, I don’t have to risk getting in trouble for wasting company time). I might not be around as often as I used to be, but it’s still high in my list of bookmarks and likely always will be.

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By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:18:15 +0000

WOW, thank you for the kind words! We have a lot of people with the BMW HQ that read us and appreciate our efforts.

We do spend a lot of time researching and asking around, and YES, sometimes we are wrong, but always stood up and admitted when that happened. We try to stay away as much as possible from speculations, but sometimes they can be fun and take the conversation to another level.

Thank you again for your kind words.

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By: MV

MV — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:14:03 +0000

Working within the BMW Group I can say that bmwblog is usually dead on. As a BMW enthusiest myself i’m always digging around to get info on future products, etc. I need this info to portray to our customers. I can say without a doubt that bmwblog tends to know the information before people here that should know. Now part of that is bad corporate communication (that never happens right?) but a lot of that is quality research and sources. Good job and as a BMW employee i appreciate it and verify the validity of most of your BMW and Mini posting…

keep it up

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By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:47:51 +0000

I appreciate it, really do. And I agree, some posts are better than others and might interest certain people, can’t really please everyone.

As far as the renderings, they were done by an artist that actually draws them, he has done lots of work for major auto blogs. He was employed by Promotor, we agreed to publish them as an FYI….I’m not that talented to do any renderings :)

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By: Vaybach Khan

Vaybach Khan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:40:23 +0000

those guys were very hard on you,but this is best bmwblog out there 4 sure…i love renderings posts..but maybe u can save some time and do the ˝renderings˝ by drawings not by photoshop…also i love all different post like 4 bicycles and all the things that is about bmw…

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By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:40:42 +0000

Thanks Joe, I’m not and I fully agree with what they said…it’s a larger X1 with some minor differences…why did I post it? Just because we have always posted news, even strange ones. Why do I post about bicycles? Cause it’s different. Why do I talk about MINI andl Rolls? Cause they’re part of BMW AG and the examples can continue.

And yes, I look forward to both vehicles, I currently have an X3 as well and next year it’s time for an upgrade. X5 is too big and the X1 might be the right choice, if it comes to the U.S. and priced lower than the X3.

P.S I do have a surprise for everyone that hates and love renderings :) Our readers will actually be “designing” some cars….soon.

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By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:36:08 +0000

Horatiu, don’t let these haters ruin your day. They are more then welcome to go elsewhere. I love this site and happy to see all the work you have put into updating it – thanks. BTW, I am looking at the X3 or X1 as the new vehicles to our home. Love the rendering trials.

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By: Cosmin

Cosmin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:58:43 +0000

Horatiu, don’t take the haters seriously, we greatly appreciate your work and i think most of us really enjoy seeing the possibilities that the renderings show. They’re RENDERINGS people ! Not pictures ! They’re derived from the few real pieces of information available but mostly imagined, how can you fail to realize that ? If you don’t think it’s realistic that’s ok, nobody’s saying that’s the real thing !

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By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:40:25 +0000

Andrew, bottom line is that I’m doing my best. I can’t stop anyone for not coming on here nor can force you to.

Looking back….I’m actually proud of what we achieved and what we’re doing, with limited resources.

P.S. Bicycle news were funny, but I guess you didn’t sense that from our posting. We posted in the past a Starbucks machine made by BMW Designworks, that was funny also.

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By: Andrew Fox

Andrew Fox — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:33:02 +0000

Thanks for response, but sorry proof is in the puddin … I used to come here daily but now just check in once in a while. Between the crazy speculative photoshops and reports on bicycles (seriously?) there’s just not enough real BMW news anymore.

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By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:22:50 +0000

Andrew, we did say that it doesn’t reflect the real deal….nothing is being stretched, on the contrary, the amount of content posted is huge and the work behind it is even more impressive.

As far as going downhill, I’m really disappointed to hear that, especially after a new redesign and a new way to introduce news. And confirming news is not as easy as you think, BMW does not comment on future products.

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By: Andrew Fox

Andrew Fox — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:20:04 +0000

Yes please do us a favor and quit posting the crazy speculative BS. I been following this place for a while but it seems like lately its going downhill with all this non real stuff. If it’s not confirmed, then don’t post it or else it just looks like the blog is stretching to come up with made up stuff to post. Losing credibility little by little.

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By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:01:52 +0000

A little harsh, I’m still amazed that you guys don’t read what I said: simply a rendering! THAT’S ALL. Would you rather see a website or read only press releases, see spy photos and read the same news? As far as stealing content, SO FAR from it…we definitely get the most BMW news out there, some better than others.

And when we take news, we post the links back, go on Bimmerpost and see if there is a link back to BMWBLOG.

I won’ take this personal, everyone is entitled to their opinion. These renderings were simply renderings, same as we see everywhere all the time.

P.S Look at Bimmerpost, posted an X1 video after we did…do you see a link back? Just curious

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By: FredericoP

FredericoP — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:56:01 +0000

What is this crap, you guys always stretch the truth to make news but this is just outright completely made up! You and auto motor sport are now on an equal basis. The Enquirer of the bmw news world, just making shit up. Next Im going to read about UFOs making crop circles at BMW HQ. Thanks for giving us a photo of an X1 thats a little larger with some fake M3 bumper.

Stick to stealing your news from bimmerpost and autoblog, it might be reposted and old, but atleast its accurate.

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