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      08-31-2011, 04:08 PM   #1
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      08-31-2011, 04:44 PM   #2
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Looks great in white/ black top
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nice... looks hot bro...
good choice in color combo...

I take delivery of my white coupe with m package next week... you just gave me a little taste...

more pics pleaseeeee..... :-)
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Wow!! Nicest 6er I've personally seen yet!! Congratulations!

What happened to your black 550??
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      09-05-2011, 07:51 AM   #5
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Handsome ride. I gave serious consideration to white when I ordered my coupe.

Don'tcha wish US ownsers didn't have those orange reflectors on our cars?
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Don'tcha wish US ownsers didn't have those orange reflectors on our cars?
It is probably for some visibility reason but still I wonder why you have them?
In Scandinavia we drive with lights on during daytime. Probably not equivalent to your reflectors but may be another aspect of governmental safety thinking.
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I think is a vestigial National Highway Safety requirement. Back in the day, cars were not being designed so that side reflection/lighting was sufficient for safety, in their opinion.

This requirement was designed to solve that. That the rest of the world, and now US cars are designed with ample reflective surfaces, they have not responded by ending this requirement. There may have been similar European requirements as for years lights were stuck on the sides of some cars that looked like complete afterthoughts. Some, like BMW, now even include integrated lighted side markers, but still these ugly reflectors are required in addition to lighted side markers in the US. Doh!

Maybe the government has stockpiled these by the millions, so we cannot now end their requirement, as it would trigger more unemployment.

The interruption of the lines of hot cars has been so annoying as to create a US aftermarket of replacement panels designed to be painted to hide! Bureaucracy dies hard in America, so automakers still have to mount them to import/or manufacture cars here. Instead of merely ending such US requirements, we usually replace them with even less needed, more stringent rules, so no one is saying anything about them.

Permanently lighted running lights, or even lighting headlights would accomplish the same results, but don't forget, we have tons of reflectors stored in strategically located warehouses around the country!
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Wow!! Nicest 6er I've personally seen yet!! Congratulations!

What happened to your black 550??
Thank you Luigi!! 550 was traded in for the 650. $3k down and my payments only went up $200/mo. My 40th birthday gift to myself.
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I think is a vestigial National Highway Safety requirement. Back in the day, cars were not being designed so that side reflection/lighting was sufficient for safety, in their opinion.

This requirement was designed to solve that. That the rest of the world, and now US cars are designed with ample reflective surfaces, they have not responded by ending this requirement. There may have been similar European requirements as for years lights were stuck on the sides of some cars that looked like complete afterthoughts. Some, like BMW, now even include integrated lighted side markers, but still these ugly reflectors are required in addition to lighted side markers in the US. Doh!

Maybe the government has stockpiled these by the millions, so we cannot now end their requirement, as it would trigger more unemployment.

The interruption of the lines of hot cars has been so annoying as to create a US aftermarket of replacement panels designed to be painted to hide! Bureaucracy dies hard in America, so automakers still have to mount them to import/or manufacture cars here. Instead of merely ending such US requirements, we usually replace them with even less needed, more stringent rules, so no one is saying anything about them.

Permanently lighted running lights, or even lighting headlights would accomplish the same results, but don't forget, we have tons of reflectors stored in strategically located warehouses around the country!
Thanks for the opinion, but have already addressed the problem by whiting it out.
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