Chris Bangle - C or D?

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― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/04/conceptcs03.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the CS Concept very much too. The new 3-coupe and this are the first things I've liked from BMW since the Z8! I'm wondering who penned it (I don't think von Hooydonk is capable of such lovely proportions). I think the side profile looks exactly like the Aston Martin 'Rapide' concept.

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, that's nice! It's like the Maserati, but not too much. And the boot appears not to be rubbish.

― stet, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Curse you, <em> tag.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Nu-BMWs are just inexplicably hideous is all I've got on this subject.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Have hated them all post-Z8, but they seem to have turned a corner with the e92 (3-series) Coupe:

http://images.leftlanenews.com/content/4-2007-bmw-3-series-coupe-335i-328i-e92.jpg

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link

One thing that Bangle did successfully do is shake BMW out of its Eurobox complacency that it was heading towards in the early 2000s. It's like they had to go crazy for awhile before being ahead of the game again.

Would Mercedes have introduced the CLS if BMW didn't go weird?

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 April 2007 02:55 (sixteen years ago) link

See, I didn't think the last 5 series and the previous 3 series (your old one) were complacent at all. The previous 7 was the epitome of BMW for me. The right thing to do is bold design, but still within the bounds of the brand.

Love the CLS and perhaps it was a reaction to BMW, but so is the ugly new S-Class.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link

I think BMW needs to go back to the shark nose.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link

Although maybe euro pedestrian safety standards would preclude that?

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link

the CS has a touch of the shark nose about it. they interviewed the designer (not bangle) in the new issue of car, and he was making positive noises about bringing the shark nose back, so fingers crossed.

I still think the 5 is the best of the current bunch. (along with the 1, but that hasn't got a pre-bangle model to compare to.) 6, 7, Z8, X3 all horrid. (x3 shows how important the detail work is since it's not really that different to the x5 and yet cocks up most of the x5's good points!) the new 3 is a touch bland but it's always going to be. i haven't really liked the look of the 3 since the E30, to be honest.

― haitch, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link

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