Chris Bangle Bungles another Bimmer

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

Well, I guess BMW decided they needed to compete in the crossover vehicle class.

Z4s have definitely grown on me over time.

[BillBrasky]

Edit: and i refuse to accept the Z3 as one of BMWs ugliest

Same here. My mom had one of the first m52 Z3's. It was black on black and that thing was sexy as hell at the time when it hit the streets. Whenever my parents would go out of town, I parked my e30 and used the Z3 for some high end waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles.


I wish I was back in high school again.....

[norcalE30]

i love his designs... except the suv's and the z3


our cars are pretty much square. if you love the look of our cars, then your prob not gonna like a car thats angled and rounded all over. that doesnt mean its ugly

[tjts1]

The pinnacle of BMW design was the E39 and to a lesser extent the E46. E38 gets honorable mention. It was all down hill from there. The current 3 series was thankfully not designed by the Bangle. The 3 series makes up more than half of BMW sales world wide. BMW didn't want risk bungling its bread and butter. Thank god he is gone. I hope he never designs another car ever again. All of bangle's bungles have 1 thing in common. They depreciate faster than yesterday's news paper (M cars excluded).

[TDE30]

The pinnacle of BMW design was the E39 and to a lesser extent the E46. E38 gets honorable mention. It was all down hill from there. The current 3 series was thankfully not designed by the Bangle. The 3 series makes up more than half of BMW sales world wide. BMW didn't want risk bungling its bread and butter. Thank god he is gone. I hope he never designs another car ever again. All of bangle's bungles have 1 thing in common. They depreciate faster than yesterday's news paper (M cars excluded).

Wrong in many different ways.

1. The pinnacle of BMW design was earlier than the E38/9, the E39 always looked too bland. The E30 and E34 had a very sturdy boxiness to them, whilst this sort of styling would not have lived past the mid-90's, it still looked much better than the passé styling of the E39.

2. It was not all downhill post-E46, there was the Z4 and the E90/2.

3. "The current 3 series was thankfully not designed by the Bangle," wtf. Bangle was Chief of Design for BMW, he wasn't the one with the pen in hand. I can't think of any one car that he single-handedly designed himself. His cues have been featured in just about every BMW model from the E46 onwards.

4. Bangle cars ≠ depreciation. That is the worst analogy ever constructed. "M cars excluded," HA. So ///M cars apparently don't depreciate, lol. Tell that to the rich guy who bought his $90k E60 M5 and goes to sell it now for $50k.

5. These Bangle-bash threads are a beaten horse. I agree the 5er GT looks like a lower X6, but the guy has overseen some great designs (the E90 is the first one to sprout to mind, the Z3/Z4, I even like the facelifted E65/66.) Like him or not, his designs are controversial, they get your attention. I swear, half of you idiots just wish BMW still made boxes. It's about the profit margin, will a boxy car sell in 2009? No, it won't. BMW's designs have to evolve one way or another. Your pathetic analogy of Bangle cars being depreciation disasters should have been reworded to something like "Bangle cars = higher global sales numbers."

Fin.

[Raxe]

Wrong in many different ways.

1. The pinnacle of BMW design was earlier than the E38/9, the E39 always looked too bland. The E30 and E34 had a very sturdy boxiness to them, whilst this sort of styling would not have lived past the mid-90's, it still looked much better than the passé styling of the E39.

2. It was not all downhill post-E46, there was the Z4 and the E90/2.

3. "The current 3 series was thankfully not designed by the Bangle," wtf. Bangle was Chief of Design for BMW, he wasn't the one with the pen in hand. I can't think of any one car that he single-handedly designed himself. His cues have been featured in just about every BMW model from the E46 onwards.

4. Bangle cars ≠ depreciation. That is the worst analogy ever constructed. "M cars excluded," HA. So ///M cars apparently don't depreciate, lol. Tell that to the rich guy who bought his $90k E60 M5 and goes to sell it now for $50k.

5. These Bangle-bash threads are a beaten horse. I agree the 5er GT looks like a lower X6, but the guy has overseen some great designs (the E90 is the first one to sprout to mind, the Z3/Z4, I even like the facelifted E65/66.) Like him or not, his designs are controversial, they get your attention. I swear, half of you idiots just wish BMW still made boxes. It's about the profit margin, will a boxy car sell in 2009? No, it won't. BMW's designs have to evolve one way or another. Your pathetic analogy of Bangle cars being depreciation disasters should have been reworded to something like "Bangle cars = higher global sales numbers."

Fin.

Amen.

[StereoInstaller1]

I saw an X6 yesterday at the stealership.

Fu
King
UGLY!

Goddamn. If that is their idea of a "crossover", I guess I like Volvo.

BMW "style" died in 1996 or so IMO.

[PhillyG]

I kinda like the GT


and WTF is up w/ you guys and that avatar?

wha

[tjts1]

:hitler:

:loco:

BMW "style" died in 1996 or so IMO.

Amen.

[TDE30]

The Hitler icon, really? I guess if I am Hitler for proving you wrong, then that's fine by me. At least I'll have a really Kampfy chair.

[Lucas.B]

wow i love that Mille Miglia

[kishg]

good grief! i hope they never actually make that abomination!!

[Charlie]

I thought Honkytonk designed this one, hasn't Bangle only been doing supervisory work the past few years?

-Charlie

[Charlie]

The pinnacle of BMW design was the E39 and to a lesser extent the E46. E38 gets honorable mention. It was all down hill from there. The current 3 series was thankfully not designed by the Bangle. The 3 series makes up more than half of BMW sales world wide. BMW didn't want risk bungling its bread and butter. Thank god he is gone. I hope he never designs another car ever again. All of bangle's bungles have 1 thing in common. They depreciate faster than yesterday's news paper (M cars excluded).

You have awful, awful taste, you know that? The e39, e38, and e36 are terrible, bland designs. All of the present cars are light years beyond the mid ninties boxlike atrocities. The E39 is a jellybean, and the E36/E38 might as well be Japanese.

Designwise, anything from the baroque angel coupes to the Neue Klasse sedans, up to the late 70's sixers & e12s are some of the most attractive cars. The Z3 & Z4 coupes are nice, and the current E92 coupes look excellent.

-Charlie

[TDE30]

I thought Honkytonk designed this one, hasn't Bangle only been doing supervisory work the past few years?

-Charlie

Yeah, I don't know which cars he actually (pen to paper) designed himself. I think he played a role in the design of the E46, but since then he has only been the person giving the green light to the designs that come out of BMW Designworks.