30 People Who Count In The Auto Biz: The Good, Bad And Incompetent

BMWBlog reports:

The folks over at Motor Trend deliver an interesting article today: 30 Who Count: The Good, The Bad, and The Incompetent.

First one on the list, the very controversial, equally adored and disliked, BMW’s ex-Chief of Design, Chris Bangle. Before we jumped into their list, let’s take a moment to read some quotes from an article published last year by our contributor Jim B., shortly after Bangle’s resignation. (Read Chris Bangle – An Appreciation )

And so it was with Christopher Bangle’s cars during his stewardship of some of the most talented automobile designers in the world. We don’t know he if always chose the most avant-garde design that was proposed for a new model….

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F005 - 5/7/2010 7:26:32 PM

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Chris Bangle understands that design is subjective. He chose to focus on provoking emotions rather than trying to earn people’s approval on beauty. Though I personally have not been a fan of his design, I do applaud him for his courage & vision.

WorldofLuxury - 5/8/2010 12:10:52 AM

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That's why I want him back. His designs weren't actually that crazy when one compares his craziest concepts to other manufacturer's, but he was willing to push forward a conservative company and help it earn more money than it could possibly imagine and finally get automotive design moving. Boy, I remember the days when people thought the best looking, next-generation cars had to be round spheres.

MSP6 - 5/8/2010 12:25:42 AM

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^^^^^FAIL^^^^^^

pepito66 - 5/8/2010 7:36:35 AM

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I have to say I like Bangle design , but bad luck is beside him now as I can see wow... the new generation BMW cars is great but to much conservative for me I would like something more agressive and is true that people always was waiting for that on the new 7 and new 5 series.

M53R - 5/8/2010 9:00:53 AM

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Just look at the design cues Bangle made that were then adopted by many other automakers. Almost everyone has taken a page from Bangle's book.