2009 started for BMW with a big surprise. BMW’s Chief of Design, Chris Bangle left the company after a long, profitable and somewhat controversial career with the german automaker. The real reasons behind the separation have never been revealed by … Continue reading

Recently, Chris Bangle, ex-Chief of Design at BMW, attended a fundraiser event as a guest speaker. He spoke about his design philosophy and sat down to chat with the folks over at MotoBullet. Here is an excerpt from their article: … Continue reading

What started off as a rumor, it might in fact turn into reality. Chris Bangle, still the Chief Designer at BMW until the end of this month, is going to pursue his own design-related endeavors. When the news of him … Continue reading

Chris Bangle is getting a lot of press these days, not just from us, but from all the big media corporations, offline and online. We have covered his resignation pretty intensively and we promise, we won’t talk about that anymore. … Continue reading

In article published two weeks ago in NY Times, prior to his resignation, Mr. Chris Bangle, talks about the Futurist Manifesto, the first document that celebrates “the automobile as an object of beauty” . Prior to that, we read about … Continue reading

In the summer of 2003 I drove to Nashville in a new Jet-Black 3.0 BMW Z4 coming in from the north out of Kentucky and into little Tennessee towns. Somewhere among the little hilled hoot-n-hollers I made a wrong turn- … Continue reading

As promised, we’re back with some new information regarding Bangle’s departure from BMW, the reasons behind it and how will this impact BMW and future designs. As we might have hinted earlier, lately it has been an internal argument, about … Continue reading

Breaking news this morning. Many online publications and some of our sources are reporting that BMW’s Chief of Design, Chris Bangle will leave BMW. A controversial designer, Bangle has been behind many of the recent BMW vehicles and it influenced … Continue reading