CIVIL WAR
Feb 17, 2021
5 minutes
by STUART GALLAGHER& ADAM TOWLER
PHOTOGRAPHY
by
ASTON PARROTT
‘AT SPEED THE CHASSIS SETTLE SAND BEGINS TO FLOW’
OU HAVE TO it’s never been afraid to rip up its own rulebook, stare controversy hard in the face and ask: ‘So what? What are you going to do about it?’ Electric and hybrid cars that resembled nothing else in the line-up a decade before any of its competitors had anything remotely interesting to offer with a plug; SUVs larger than the second homes their owners drive them to at the weekend; a willingness to apply the sacred M name to anything that glides down its production line and to hell with the backlash (profit is profit); and a readiness to flip its design language on its head, seemingly on a whim. There are certainly some brave souls in Munich.
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