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Originally Posted by Zephyr15
Ditto.
Overall, I think the car is an improvement in the design category, but not without SNAFUs. First up, BMW's inexplicable use of plastic body cladding. It's cheap, ugly and pointless. Didn't they use the same junk on the original X3 and then remove it when the LCI came out? Is that its only purpose - to have an easy "fix" to make the LCI look better? I guess the only options are to M-Sport or hope that black hides it better than these photos seem to indicate.
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It visually thins the vehicle a bit, thats its purpose. Also negates the need to protect those panels from debris damage.