Comments on: Chris Bangle ‘to quit industry’. Hallelujah! http://www.theprodigalguide.com/2009/02/07/chris-bangle-to-quit-industry-hallelujah/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chris-bangle-to-quit-industry-hallelujah Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:25:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A Prodigal 2009 reviewed: Happy New Year to you all « The Prodigal Guide http://www.theprodigalguide.com/2009/02/07/chris-bangle-to-quit-industry-hallelujah/#comment-3034 A Prodigal 2009 reviewed: Happy New Year to you all « The Prodigal Guide Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:03:15 +0000 http://theprodigalguide.wordpress.com/?p=438#comment-3034 [...] started the year on a high, celebrating the news that Chris Bangle was finally retiring. At last, a chance that BMWs might be elegant [...] [...] started the year on a high, celebrating the news that Chris Bangle was finally retiring. At last, a chance that BMWs might be elegant [...]

]]> By: Edreams http://www.theprodigalguide.com/2009/02/07/chris-bangle-to-quit-industry-hallelujah/#comment-3033 Edreams Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:22:35 +0000 http://theprodigalguide.wordpress.com/?p=438#comment-3033 I've only just woken up from a five-month bender in celebration of Mr. Bangle's demise! How just and righteous it is, and how furiously we should whip those who aped his ugly-is-the-new-beautiful given their total lack of inspiration. Seriously, folks, we recognise beauty when we see it; we feel it and yes, instinctively know it be a work of absolute harmony, elegance and truth. Mangling bodywork to look like a tortured Slovakian hooker simply doesn't cut it. And Bangle often couldn't even be bothered to finish it off.... Look to the latest Z4 for signs that BMW are once again finding their path toward aesthetic enlightenment. Not there yet, but almost... I’ve only just woken up from a five-month bender in celebration of Mr. Bangle’s demise!

How just and righteous it is, and how furiously we should whip those who aped his ugly-is-the-new-beautiful given their total lack of inspiration.

Seriously, folks, we recognise beauty when we see it; we feel it and yes, instinctively know it be a work of absolute harmony, elegance and truth. Mangling bodywork to look like a tortured Slovakian hooker simply doesn’t cut it. And Bangle often couldn’t even be bothered to finish it off….

Look to the latest Z4 for signs that BMW are once again finding their path toward aesthetic enlightenment. Not there yet, but almost…

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