I think design (and colours) all comes down to personal taste. Some guys love the new Mustang, others hate it (I like it with the round running lights or if it's done by Saleen).
I don't like shrill defenders of their own vision, and he comes across as another poor me complainer. He ought to have a pretty thick skin by now, but instead it's "you philistines don't understand, maybe in a hundred years I will be revered." First time I saw the 6 Coupe I though Pontiac Trans-Am baby!
Extra points for whining there's no precedent on race cars for designing cell phone antennae. Last time I checked a Williams was festooned with antenna, maybe not organic and swoopy, but they still seemed to function. Maybe the Sauber's will have his trademark fin at the launch?
True, but there arn't that many visionaries out there and the ones that were, like Buckminster Fuller, were looked at by large, a kook. Designers pull ideas from the past. For example, car designers look at new products for inspiration. I agree, some of his comments were a little silly.
Nothing wrong with having a vison, but if you keep running behind yourself with a broom then it gets suspicious. I like function, and after that bells, whistles, and tailfins.
I did apprecieat the comment about how the design of women hasn't changed for several years. That would explain why Honda's just changed paint on the RC all this time. It's still on the peak!
If Bangle is a visionary, he needs a new prescription in his glasses. The best thing about the new 3 is how not as Bangled-up it is compared to the other cars.
CB is just a mediocre short order cook at a big named restaurant, who got his job by sprinkling garlic salt and parmasean cheese on french fries. The fries were pretty damn good, and didn't need the gilding. The 3, 5, 6 and 7 series and new Z4 Coupe (just got the press kit from the Detroit auto show) are ugly cars, more so in details, but the 7 series really is hard on the eyes.
Then again, most Lexus cars aren't easy on the eyes, and they're the no. 1 luxury brand in the US by sales...
I'm glad he isn't penning designs anymore at BMW, but his handiwork remain eyesores on the highways. I'm not sure if I want to shake my head at his designs, or the people who putt around their sheet metal ugliness (SMU) in my presence!? (shake your head at them both!) Damn straight: I'll do both.
From: Board of Directors
To: C Bangle
Subject: New Design
Guten morgen Herr Bangle, the board has just returned from it's stay in the Bahamas sponsored by our new best vendor AEG Krumpleverk. All are tanned and well. The good news is that our company will soon be recieving 200 new Numeric Control Sheet Metal Benders. As board members who were not able to attend the sponsored retreat and the stockholders will query this expense all cars must now feature an array of many bends and folds regardless of past designs or current opinions. We hope to see rough drafts for these soon, and rolling proto-types by the end of the quarter.
As a second note my wife has informed me that radio antenna's are not pleasing to the eye so they must be re-worked immediately. Please justify this change any way you see fit. Hope that you will be invited to the next frank and open exchange of ideas, and Auf Weinerstein.
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