08-20-2004, 02:14 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 7,279
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Originally Posted by aaronius25
The new 7 looks just like every other large luxury sedan today.
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Hmmm.
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Originally Posted by aaronius25
The current 3 series, is, and will forever be, a classic. It drives better than any other 4/5 passenge sedan/coupe on the market except those that are twice its cost. It's one of the most visually appealing cars.
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A Bangle design...
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Originally Posted by aaronius25
Basically everything that Chris Bangle did has ruined BMW - he's turning it into a brand like Lexus. He's making the brand into the car that people buy just to show their wealth
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Ok.
Chris Bangle is in charge of DESIGN
Show me a car company run by the design department.
The people who signed off on the designs are the ones responsible, not Bangle.
If the top BMW bosses didn't like what he was doing they could easily have said: "No, this isn't right" and replaced him.
But they didn't.
In other news, people were considering BMW as a statement of wealth long before Bangle came along.
You can't tell me the millions of E36 3 series, and E39 5 Series owners bought the car on its driving prowess alone?
Especially all the saps who bought poverty spec 316's, which didn't even come with a stereo as standard, just so that they could say "I own a new BMW"
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