You'd have a point if modern cars relied on their "skins" to handle the impact of a crash, but they don't. Bangle even addresses this in the first 30 seconds of the video.
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You'd have a point if modern cars relied on their "skins" to handle the impact of a crash, but they don't. Bangle even addresses this in the first 30 seconds of the video.
Aside from the obvious coolness factor, a car that can't get "dinged" is definitely a good thing. No chance of damage from hail, or idiot drivers who park too close to you, etc.
Any practical aspects aside, Bangle has finally found the ultimate way to express his half-assed "artistic" side - he's been screwing up automotive design in general - not just BMW's, but every auto manufacturer that has followed his lead in hopes that, 'if BMW can get away with it, it must be good design' while forgetting that people buy BMWs for only two reasons: they either realize that the cars are well-engineered or they simply buy them because BMW is The Thing to Buy to Show You've Made It, regardless of what it looks like. Without that roundel and the kidney grilles, no other automaker in the world would be taken seriously with Bangle's ideas - he seems to have stolen the awkwardness from the Korean designers at the same time they discovered maturity and aesthetics.
Sure, some of GINA's ideas are interesting, but unfortunately, the concept only works on Bangle's idiotic "flame sculpturing," which already looked like a collection of haphazard ribs covered by shrunken spandex. He must really know where the bodies are buried in Bavaria ...
Sure, some of GINA's ideas are interesting, but unfortunately, the concept only works on Bangle's idiotic "flame sculpturing," which already looked like a collection of haphazard ribs covered by shrunken spandex. He must really know where the bodies are buried in Bavaria ...
Aside from the last 5 and 7 series' rear deck lid, I don't have the same hate for bangle's designs as some others seem to.
The latest European pedestrian crash safety regs have done far more to damage automotive styling than little ol' Chris Bangle ever has.
And I couldn't disagree with Darkwing more. He most certainly has every right to spend his money on whatever he wants, but it's also the right of other people and society to attempt to change his mind about wanting to own a car like that.
I own three cars, one of which is a 300 hp 2 seater convertible. No doubt many consider my consumption "conspicuous". But I try to be as eco-friendly as I can in my home and daily life, and I'll be damned if someone like Darkwing is going to come along and not allow me to buy such a car, or tax it to the point where I can no longer afford it, just because some dickweed without an education doesn't own his own car.
Neither would I - that was kind of my point
. But the Koreans, at least, have been getting better - Hyundai and Kia have made some pretty impressive strides in cleaning up the extraneous lines and fiddling details that were once all too common in their cars. Bangle, OTOH, managed to open the world up for an abomination like the Z4 after the sleek Z3.Incidentally, Bangle was also responsible for the 'proboscis' that was the grille of the original Chrysler Cirrus - arguably its worst design element.
I always think it'd be amazing to be a concept car designer. Here, have a pencil, make something impractical!
look I drew three connecting circles shaped like eyedrops! it's the car of the future!
