Bangle gets a job at ...Ferrari?

LOL. Nice pic, hopefully it will never happen.

 

Kind of a "duckbill platypus" version...........

 

Excuse my ignorance but I am assuming this Bangle guy is the dude behind the ugly BMW design's

That MZ-575 Looks weird LOL.

Vasco.R

 

He is. The Z4. The 7 Series. And everything in between. Icky poo.

 

And just wait till Bangle's designed 4 door 3 series comes out accompanied by the Banglized 4 series coupe, convertible, and M3 arrive. BMW's bread and butter. If they look like the current 5, 6 and 7 series and the public doesn't like them BMW could be in serious trouble IMO. Let's not even mention that stupid idrive.

 

I can see it now, all new Ferraris will have the characteristic "Bangle Butt"!

FUGLY! U-G-L-Y! You ain't got no alibi!

John

 

Ferrari should stick w/ Italian designers. Bmw should stick w/ Italian designers... too.

 

I agree. Leonardo Fiorvanti was a fantastic example!

Speaking of Italian designers at German car companies, my favorite has to be Bruno Sacco. He was head of design for many years at Mercedes Benz. The cars designed during his tenure were, in my opinion, some of the most handsome ever created.

 

Well actually, the 7- 5- and 6 series where effectivley penned down by Adrian van Hooydonk. Bangle is merely head of operations. In all fairness, didn't Bangle do the Coupe Fiat?

 

What would some examples of Bruno Sacco's work be during his time with Mercedes Benz?

 

The amazing thing to me is that in spite of the fact that Msr Bangle has designed a butt ugly car sales of all series including the 7 series have increased each yr.(and in spite of the overly complicated iDrive).Why?

 

the same cannot be said for the 5 series whose first year sales were lower than the last year of the old model. usually sales more than double with a brand new model.

7 series sales were so low before that small increases are insignificant for such a large company.

current bmw designs are nauseating!

 

http://www.sniffpetrol.com usually has something interesting to say about Chris Bangle:


BMW READIES SARCASTRONIC
In response to criticism that complex electronics are making modern cars too clinical and nannying, BMW is poised to launch a surprise new facility aimed at humanising its top-of-the-range cars. To be intoduced initially as an option on the forthcoming 6-series convertible, the new system, dubbed Sarcastronic, is designed to offer a more human interface thanks to a special dashboard display which responds to a variety of inputs with a series of witheringly ironic messages. 'The new system can analyse a complex set of variables including driving style, climate and audio settings, and the driver's clothes,' claimed one Munich source. 'It then responds in an appropriate way. Dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes. Oh yea, we've got the lot'. Insiders say that developing the appropriate tone wasn't always easy. 'We were struggling to calibrate the system,' admitted one engineer. 'But then we set up a microphone in the viewing area of our design studio and we quickly set the correct benchmark from a series of people entering the room to look at Chris Bangle's latest styling proposals and saying, "Oh that's a nice looking car…"'.
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More from sniffpetrol.com:

HANG ON, I'M LEFT HANDED EXCLAIMS CONFUSED CHRIS BANGLE
BMW's styling department has been plunged into turmoil this week after boss Chris Bangle realised that he has spent the last ten years designing cars with the wrong hand. 'This is quite a surprise,' said one insider (in German). 'Ever since he started working here Chris used his right hand to sketch design themes, operate CAD/CAM units and so forth. It was only during a game of rounders with some of the large car exterior design team from Audi that Chris went to catch the ball and suddenly realised the strange truth; he's actually left handed.'
Bangle's sudden discovery explains much of the wonky lines and unusual angles seen on recent BMWs, but in a modern car company no one man styles every car. So how does the bespectacled designer's dexterity error explain the look of, say, the new 6-series? 'It's quite simple,' explained our Munich mole (in German, still). 'Young designers began to copy Chris's inadvertently wonky style and, with the incomprehensible writing that resulted from his wrong-hand usage, his disapproving notes about their work were misunderstood. So, in the case of the 6-series, Chris scribbled "This is a Pontiac coupe!" on the concept sketches but the designer mis-read it as "This is a perfect coupe!" and carried on until it was too late.'
Bangle's sudden realisation isn't the first thing that has only been discovered after years of error in a car industry design department. Last year staff at Subaru were shocked to discover that the computer they used to design the wheels for high performance models could do other colours apart from gold. 'That was a relief,' said one insider at the time (not in German). 'They looked ****.'

 

This is more like it. Slab o' beef rear.
Nauseatingly ugly.

 

Wayne,

Of course it's all opinion but I am a big fan of the Benzes from the 80's and early 90's. I love the '86-'91 S-Class, the '74-'89 SL's, especially the 560, and even the E-class and 190 models from the same period. I'm sure some of my admiration for these cars stems from the fact that they were still built like bank vaults back then. I did use the word handsome though. Beautiful wouldn't have been a stretch.