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      06-18-2011, 02:43 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Lotus7 View Post
First, you get what you pay for.

Any vehicle from a lowly Tata to a Bugatti Veyron is built to a budget and has compromises in how that budget is allocated. Personally, I'd rather see resources spent on high mechanical tolerances on things like camshaft lobe profiles and turbocharger bearings than worrying about the smoothness of sealant caulk lines that are not visible on a closed car.

The X3 is a vehicle that is meant to be driven by people who are interested in something more than just basic transportation to go from one place to another. It is not an art object to be put on a pedestal and polished in places that no one but the owner will ever care about. Of course, that's just my personal opinion and is just that. You may be interested in polishing surfaces that rarely see the light of day. To each his/her own.

Everyone has his/her own priorities when it comes to how to spend your Euros, or Dollars in the case of the US-built X3. Sealant caulk line smoothness is approximately number 927 on my priority list.
Basic price ( with manual transmission and without any extra options) for a X3 Xdrive35i in norway is 986 000 Norwegian kroner = 178 849.554 U.S. dollars (checked with Google)

You can check price for yourself here http://www.bmw.no/no/no/_teaserpool/...X3_03_2011.pdf


So I expect good quality even if you dont!

Last edited by X3andZ4owner; 06-18-2011 at 02:53 PM..
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