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If you didn't already know bmw had lost their design edge, you clearly haven't seen the XM or their ugly ass plastic grills on electric vehicles that don't even need grills.
I guess though I could see these being a novelty security feature for hubcaps that you don't want to be removed too easily. Beyond that it's just hostile and or dumb.
BMW pinned so much of their visual identity on their kidney grilles. Literally decades of variations on the theme, mainly just getting bigger and bigger. And now grilles are completely redundant with ev's and BMW hasn't got a clue what to do about it. The lack of foresight and imagination is stunning.
I wouldn't even mind if the fake grills looked decent, but they are just ugly. They seem to be thrashing around with what to do trying all sorts of ugly things.