Filed under: Etc. , Design/Style Chris Bangle’s latest novel idea is, in fact, an actual novel. The designer has penned fiction tome called Peter Teufel, A Tale of Car Design in 3 Parts . There’s more to the work than Bangle laying out a potential future of transportation via the Teufel character’s story.
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Report: Ex-BMW design boss Bangle writes book, launches contest
Filed under: Sedan , Lexus , First Drives , Luxury If This Is The New Lexus, We Can Stop With The Pejoratives So Lexus wants to be taken seriously now. Certainly the brand is a heavyweight – and has been since the moment it launched 22 years ago, changing the luxury market almost overnight. It’s just had trouble garnering the respect of the cognoscenti, the car enthusiast types, the sorts of people who can see a pair of taillights flash by and identify year, make and model. Lexus representatives are not shy about the issue, in part because it’s hard to ignore years of critics calling your cars bland and soulless, while smirking, self-avowed “car guys” trade their BMW sedans in on new BMW sedans, even as they grumble about electronic nannies, iDrive and Chris Bangle
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First Drive: 2013 Lexus GS 350
Filed under: Celebrities , Design/Style Chris Bangle has been awarded the 2012 Lifetime Design Achievement Award by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology for his work in vehicle design. EyesOn Design calls on past award winners to vote for the yearly recipient, and this year’s jurors included names like Walter de’Silva, Sergio Pininfarina and Jack Telnack among others. The jurors chose Bangle for his distinguished career that includes time with Opel , Fiat and, most notoriously, BMW . The designer famously redesigned the BMW 3 Series and 7 Series and helped bring vehicles like the X5 and X6 to life.
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Former BMW lightning rod Chris Bangle to receive Lifetime Design Achievement Award
Filed under: Sedan , Performance , Videos , BMW , First Drives , Luxury Lose Two Cylinders, Gain Two Turbos, Take No Prisoners The first BMW M5 , the humble E28 of 1984, had little idea of the performance bloodline it would sire. Its equally humble sales figures proved it: just 2,241 were built. Previous to the 2004 arrival of the E60 M5, the ’84 original and the much better-selling E34 that succeeded it in 1988 both carried excellent inline sixes that offered between 256 SAE horsepower in the first-generation’s North American trim and 340 European DIN horses by the end of its run in 1995.
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First Drive: 2012 BMW M5 [w/video]
Filed under: Etc. , Videos , BMW , Design/Style BMW ‘s product portfolio has expanded far beyond the sports sedans and cabriolets of old to include all manner of vehicles. But a subway train?
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Video: BMW DesignworksUSA previews updated San Francisco subway
Filed under: Concept Cars , Classics , Convertible , Performance , Europe , Videos , BMW , Misc. Auto Shows , Luxury BMW 328 Hommage concept with Adrian von Hooydonk – Click above to watch the video after the break While at this year’s Concorso d’Eleganza at Villa d’Este (yeah, we’re roughing it here) we grabbed BMW Group chief of design Adrian van Hooydonk for an interview about his team’s latest two-person open-top concept car, the 328 Hommage . The 328 Hommage marks 75 years since the launch of the gorgeous 1930s icon, the 328, and carries on the tradition of that car in its lightness. While the 328 six-cylinder was underpowered on paper in its day, it kicked butt on the race circuit due to its very light weight and superior dynamics.
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Video: BMW Group design boss van Hooydonk talks 328 Hommage