BMW has built some of the world's best cars in its illustrious history, but some made more of a splash than others…The three things you can be most sure of in this world are death, taxes and people having strong opinions about BMWs.which could for one reason or another be described, using what we concede is an above-averagely wide definition of the term, as controversial. They appear in chronological order.
Complaints that this was not the sort of vehicle BMW should have been building were drowned by praise for the X5 and well it handled on the road. Four generations on, it’s still with us today.infotainment system to the world. Undoubtedly clever, it was criticised for being very difficult to use, at least in its original form.The immediate to the successor to the Z3 was available as either a roadster or a coupé. This turned out to be a problem, as BMW later discovered.
Engineering this into an existing model was not a practical proposition. BMW instead made the next Z4, launched in 2009, a coupé-convertible, giving owners a choice of open-top or solid-roof motoring in the same car.Available mostly as a small hatchback, though also as a coupé or a convertible, the 1 Series was the type of car which would have hadif almost anyone else had built it.
As a result, various transmission components took up space which might otherwise have been available for passengers and luggage, but people who regarded front-wheel drive as the work of the devil reckoned that BMW had done the right thing.between a coupé and an SUV – a curious combination, but some people seem to like it. The difficulty of reconciling very different elements in the same vehicle was immediately apparent when the first generation was launched.
While praising its dynamics and good value, we described its looks as “challenging”, and added, “Seldom has a car divided opinion as much as this one. And seldom has so much of that opinion beenThe i3 might have been frowned upon by people who don’t like electric cars, but at one point it was even more controversial within BMW.