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've noticed that on a handful of German cars lately. I compared my friend's 435i to my E93 and E53 and have to say the build quality was much better on the older cars - even the plastic bits. Another friend just bought a Mercedes C class and the interior looks and feels like a Hyundai (though, FWIW, Hyundai's are annoyingly nice for what they are).
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OrangeFurious, Totally agree with the black plastic everywhere on the new ones. I looked into it and thanks to some articles from Chris Bangle, seems that BMW struggled to get anywhere near VW's emissions/mpg lies and took a step to 'lighten' there cars. This mean't looking at the cabin and seeing where they could lose weight and try to keep the quality.
Anyway, I am way, way off topic... Lets hope 1iwilly gets his X5 on the road and not have any more serious issues.