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I’ve complained before about the ergonomic nightmare that occurs when you style a dash before you think about usability, about how there’s a sense that BMW designers are deciding what wheel size must be used or how low a car must sit and the consequences, and the inefficient packaging and poor visibility that’s stemmed from sketching a car that looks good on an autoshow turntable but cares not about visibility or ingress/egress.

Which begs the question: is the subpar side impact performance another example of the designer’s pen having disasterous consequences? Is the sharp tumblehome (or slant of the side glass) to blame for not only the sense of clausterphobia but the inability of the side curtain airbag to protect the driver as well as they’d be protected by other, less designed and more engineered BMW models?

This entry was posted on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 9:27 pm and is filed under BMW, errata, safety.