the m3 they have now... isn't that a chris bangle product?????
i'm really mad b/c i got 2 years left on my S, and i'd hate to buy a USED m3 in 2 years if they redesign it... b/c i doubt they can achieve such perfection TWICE!!!
the m3 is soo perfect, they can produce it for 30 years for all i care!
a cool something i've noticed though... years ago, every time a company redesigned their cars, it was only for the better... now, every time i see a redesign of some current model, i wanna cry and i'm thankful i have the older one... i.e. the 4 door accord, the bmw's the civics etc... even worse, THE SI !!!!!!!!
i think the new 7 series looks like it has lazy eyes in the front and a trunk that has a tumor or something growing on it!
the new 330i's are REALY UGLY, so i'm hoping that's not where the M3 and the other 3 series coupes are heading!!!!!!!
:running to bmw dealer while i can:

 

small article i found...
it's funny, he claims he wanted to NOT have that sausage persona that bmw models all have (which now mercedes has) yet... the new 5 series doesn't look too different than the 7 to me!
Chris Bangle-Chief engineer for BMW:

"When you drive, you go from A to B. When you motor, you go from A to Z. . . . Nobody can tell you when you're motoring. You just know." The brief for Bangle and his team was straightforward: Design cars that give people the motoring spirit.



An overview of BMW and Chris Bangle

 

something cool you might wanna partake in...
http://www.petitiononline.com/STOPCB/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/sig...gned.cgi?STOPCB

 

some more pics of the new pontiac 6 series LOL

 

Simply awful.

The current 5 series is one of the most beautifully elegant and simple designs ever, IMO. Its aggressive yet restrained at the same time and looks as good today as it did when it was introduced in the 90's. I believe that it will continue to look good into the next decade.

This new design is horrible. Like the 7 series and the awful "flame surfaced" FUGLY mobile Z4, these cars are neither appealing now nor will they be in the future. BMW needs to fire Bangle.

 

The new 6
Actually, it looks pretty good from this angle. I dont know about the rear end.

 

Yeah....kinda indifferent about the front. The rear is just hideous. I really like the classic straight lines of the previous gen 5 and 7 series.

 

c'mon now carlson... that was a joke when i called it the new pontiac... b/c we all said it looked like a pontiac gran prix.
sorry you didn't get it... but look at the grille, maybe now you see what i mean!
anyhow, who designed the current 3's and M3... bangle?

 

the interior WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKIN

 

I say we all take up a collection for a one way ticket for Chris Bangle to fly to Russia. Let him work out the rest of his career where we don't have to look at his crap.

I'm a die-hard BMW fan, and he has got to be stopped!!!

Get that ing iDrive knob out of the 5 series!