By Leftlane Staff
Thursday, Jan 12th, 2006 @ 11:16 am

Trashed by critics just a few years ago, BMW ’s chief designer Chris Bangle
is “experiencing a pleasant reversal of fortune,” a report in today’s Wall Street Jorunal said. In 2001, when Bangle’s flagship 7-Series first debuted, Bimmer fans launched a “Stop Chris Bangle,” criticizing the “Bangle butt,” and other unusual design features. But at this year’s auto show in Detroit, designs resembling Bangle’s work are cropping up everywhere — in designs from Mercedes, Lexus , Toyota , and Infiniti . ”Suddenly, everyone is trying to do the kind of styling for which the auto journalists criticized the BMW group so loudly,” BMW Chief Executive Helmut Panke crowed at a dinner with reporters here. “You look at the Camry rear end and you see another 7 Series. It is not the ‘Bangle butt’ anymore.”

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