Comments on: BMW Mille Miglia Concept

By: What A Crap Can

What A Crap Can — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:53:24 +0000

It is not German design. That is why it is so stupid.

By: Arman

Arman — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:58:28 +0000

HOLY CHRISTWAGONS
FUK exelero and carving that’s the SHIT
OMFG…the lads at bmw r pure geniuses>>>>

By: Harold Sparky

Harold Sparky — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:56:19 +0000

That thing is cool!!!
Now go back and scrub your E-36 chassis with a toothbrush, foo…

By: J.H.Proffit

J.H.Proffit — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:13:32 +0000

Rob……ARE YOU BLIND!!?

Other than being a fastback coupe. How does this have ANYTHING to do with my car?

BMW is always complaining “We have no money” How can anyone justify waste of money doing this kind of thing?

And what’s with the Bugatti wheels?

By: Rob Ianuario

Rob Ianuario — Mon, 15 May 2006 22:12:07 +0000

I was working for BMW Mobile Tradition when they acquired the original mm coupe and I am quite familiar with it. I agree that Bangle designs are out there, but this car is a faithful interpretation of the original. For those of you that do not like this, research the bmw kamm coupe that was entered into the mille miglia. It’s uglier than sin, but proved quite faster than the winning touring body coupe. Only machanical complications kept it from winning. I say hats off to Bangle

By: TomG

TomG — Mon, 15 May 2006 19:15:30 +0000

Retro, which is what this mess is, is inherently not creative. Taking an old design and re-drawing it with modern lines is a REHASH. Where’s the creativity in that?? Is it in the low profile tires or the projection beam headlights.? Please! Art, of any kind is subjective and it’s beauty is in the eyes of the beholder as they say. So go ahead and love it, that’s your prerogative, but don’t argue for a second that it’s creative.

By: peter g

peter g — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:06:18 +0000

This is haute cuisine and if you’re used to burgers and Coke you’re probably going to hate it. But seriously…I like it! Really! I don’t like the headlights and I’m never going to buy one, but I like it…And I like the fact that it’s not just another computer-generated consumer product. This is hands-on sculpting, modelling. It’s…strange (?), it’s sort of ugly, artsy and very retro but different and -I dare say- necessary.

By: Heydn

Heydn — Sun, 14 May 2006 23:38:44 +0000

Wow. This car is polarizing. I like it a lot, but that’s just my opinion.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 13 May 2006 21:06:12 +0000

Hmmm… I’m not sure what to think of this car. The front, especially those slit headlights above the round ones, looks atrocious. However, as bad as the car starts, it finishes well. The way the roof slopes into the bumper and the coverings over the rear wheels make it look snazzy as hell. Its got some lines on it, good and bad. Hmm… its a concept car for sure.

By: BAMF

BAMF — Fri, 12 May 2006 23:26:42 +0000

Really? Does everyone like Stravinsky the first time they hear it? How about Coltrane? How about Charlie Parker? Do you like all the Picasso you’ve ever seen?

No. Thats art baby, get used to it. The guy isn’t making the same straight hard lined BMWs that they made forever. I’m glad. It was a nice look, but its time for something a little more interesting. Something creative. Thats the idea: creativity. Got it?

By: Angelo

Angelo — Fri, 12 May 2006 20:35:38 +0000

trash Bangle all you want, but his cars sell a lot and sell at a premium price.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 May 2006 19:20:44 +0000

Tom, who are you to define a ‘good’ car design?

The G35 took no getting used to for me… I thought it was hot the first time I saw it.

Good design? Ha, no. I think it’s a generic piece of shit. But hey.

By: TomG

TomG — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:50:18 +0000

BAMF… a good car design shouldn’t have to be “stared at for a while” in order it to be beautiful. A good design should win you over in an instant. It should make you take a double-take as it cruises by. This design is just plain ugly. Like all of Bangles designs, it looks fat and heavy and has far too many pointless creases and lines.

When will automotive designers end their obsession with RETRO already!

By: BAMF

BAMF — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:21:51 +0000

SaigonDesign, it WAS sketched first. May I direct your attention here: http://www.seriouswheels.com/top-2006-BMW-Mille-Miglia-Concept.htm

By: Just A Little Kraut Genius

Just A Little Kraut Genius — Fri, 12 May 2006 04:05:27 +0000

That is EXACTLY what my NOSEY golf course neighbourhood neighbour said…the little propeller is a piece of WWII heritage…the good parts of it, certainly, not the intolerance of who evers…

By: BAMF

BAMF — Fri, 12 May 2006 03:31:11 +0000

what exactly is that supposed to mean?

By: gsh

gsh — Fri, 12 May 2006 02:58:37 +0000

bmw should advertise its heritage like saab does. “born from the luftwaffe,” because this car is certainly bringing back the glorius days of the third reich.

By: BAMF

BAMF — Fri, 12 May 2006 02:16:27 +0000

I think its pretty cool. Kind of looks like a plane in a lot of ways (which makes sense, considering bmw is “born from propellor planes”). The side exhausts are cool. I love the cockpit, and the entire top of the car is perfect. The sides are definately interesting, definately very cool. At first I thought “that shit is whack” but now I’m seeing the beauty in it.

Just because its unlike anything you’ve ever seen before doesn’t mean its bad. I would venture to say most of you detractors simply dont understand it, especially considering all the questions you ask. I like the design. I think its VERY unique, VERY interesting, and VERY original. I know it seems weird and different, but thats what is so cool about it. Its not like Chris Bangle just threw together a bunch of shapes, so quit acting like hes just making crap. He’s not. And who are you all to say that he is? He knows more about automotive design than all of you put together.

You say “I know what I like.” I say you like what you know. You are all so quick to say “AW ITS SO UGLY” after only a few looks. Stare at it a while. Examine every line, every curve. You’ll find the flow. Its there, and its beautiful.

By: SaigonDesign

SaigonDesign — Fri, 12 May 2006 01:51:10 +0000

Would someone please inform Chris Bangle that you CAN design a car outside of Alias modelling software. This ass-clown is good at gettting publicity, but his designs, while “extraordinary”, are usually extraordinary works of someone who spends too much time 3-D modelling rather than sketching…

What’s up with the random assymetric colored line and the random wooden element in the strakes on the sides? What about the misproportioned back end?

Cohesive, coherent design this ain’t.

By: YouthDriver 24

YouthDriver 24 — Fri, 12 May 2006 00:58:37 +0000

Wow does it fly too? Cause it looks like it fell out of a bad 1950′s sci-fi movie. Well I am sure the Flash Gordon’s of the world will love it.

By: Please Enjoy Responsibly :)_

Please Enjoy Responsibly :)_ — Thu, 11 May 2006 23:03:40 +0000

Ja.The real thing. 328.

By: J.H.Proffit

J.H.Proffit — Thu, 11 May 2006 21:44:35 +0000

I found restored and owned the real thing.BMW 328s #85368 was mine………This isn’t it!!!

I still have several BMW prototypes…… BMW should spend their money saving their history….not ”Pimp my Siegerwagen”

REAL MEN DRIVING REAL CARS MAKE REAL HISTORY!

By: PETE PETERSEN

PETE PETERSEN — Thu, 11 May 2006 21:29:31 +0000

The headlights remind me of insect eyes. The rest of the car is impressive. Looks like it would be right at home amongst a division of Panzers. Yikes!

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 11 May 2006 21:05:41 +0000

2Hel-n-back: LOL.

Jon.

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 11 May 2006 20:58:30 +0000

Thanks #40. I thought I was the only one, but the front of that car lloks like 2… lips… with the BMW emblem (for stimulation?) sitting atop.

By: Guttersludge

Guttersludge — Thu, 11 May 2006 20:10:45 +0000

(Comment #4)² + [(Comment #9) x 2(Poeslelikenkak)]

In the immortal words of Spike Milligan: “Bangle needs to be tied to a tree and shot with a Blunderbuss loaded with his own shite.”

I have pissed more elegant ‘n coherent shapes while hung over from cheap liquor on the side of the highway in Malmesbury.

In my not-so-humble opinion.

By: 2Hel-n-back

2Hel-n-back — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:47:27 +0000

Posted by…
Helmut Panke,
Chairman,
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG,
11 May 2006

It’s going to be fine…I know it. I can’t believe this has happened! When the orderlies from Happy Acres came to take Chris away, it suddenly became clear that it had to be true. But now what do we do? How do we face the world and say, “Oops”? We thought he was real!

When they told me he’d previously posed as a product manager at Coca Cola in the United States (he championed “New Coke”), and also as the Italian Prime Minister (we all know what happened there), I was devastated.

Good thing we didn’t give him complete control over all our product design: that would have been corporate suicide. Oh, wait…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:06:00 +0000

its pimp, the back is a lil messed up but that shit is so awesome hahaha

By: Euroman

Euroman — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:04:58 +0000

OMFG….It’s even uglier than the other BMWs. I didn’t think it was possible…..I was wrong.

By: A Very Wild Horse

A Very Wild Horse — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:36:22 +0000

I had so much respect for BMW because they were serious/boring engineers making just a very likable car…A wake-up call for me I guess…Oriental zen or whatever…One must not become attached to the nifty boxy car…Makes it easy for me to NOT be materialistic…Backhanded thanks to Bangle…

By: Real World Hard Core Gritty Gravel In Your Sandwich

Real World Hard Core Gritty Gravel In Your Sandwich — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:29:53 +0000

A Citroen 2cv has more credibility as a style statement. You’d at least get laid by funky girls.

By: Wacky Tobacco

Wacky Tobacco — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:04:02 +0000

I’m not going to personally attack Mr. Bangle because I don’t value sheet metal over humans, but there has GOT to be a place for Chris, his talents, abilities, and reasoning/imagination far, far away from the high end state of the art BMW factory/mill. I think Chris would be a gift to any hospital for sick children or maybe a pre-school/kindergarten setting. He could be an illustrator/storyteller and send kid’s imaginations to delightful(just not to me) destinations like Puff The Magic’s incredible castle and show his strange and wonderful automobile that runs on pure liquid ice cream or whatever, etc., etc. ,etc.

By: geoffvelazco

geoffvelazco — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:59:45 +0000

call me sanchez or sharif

By: geoffvelazco

geoffvelazco — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:57:57 +0000

i love u BANGLE, be my father

By: No Nonsense Please

No Nonsense Please — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:50:23 +0000

The PERFECT pimp car.

By: JW

JW — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:32:18 +0000

Butt Ugly, I would take it over a fit or yaris though.

By: No Nonsense Please

No Nonsense Please — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:11:20 +0000

I’m thinking a nice pickup AND a mean American motorcycle if this doesn’t change. Seriously. Rigid muscular straight lines…

By: What. Ever. (A Memory Now)

What. Ever. (A Memory Now) — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:02:16 +0000

I’m dissapointed because of the change from strong muscular rigid straight lines of earlier model BMW cars. What happened to the people who crafted the last of the boxy 3 series? They say Chris is not shy to defend his designs, and the boards of directors is also said to support Bangle, but whoever those people are; they are alienating BMW purists(stolid minimalist pefectionists who scrub the chassis with a toothbrush). To me it the death of what was and used to be. I’m still not buying Japanese autos at this time, though, because to me, Japanese cars are too much of a a quote transportation/conveyance product unquote. We weren’t paying for the BMW logo. We were paying for an engineer’s car, “the most engineered car” somebody once told me. That’s what happened…it is not really an “engineer’s car” anymore. Right? Why were the nice heater/defrost/ac knobs discontinued? Some things are good the way they are. It almost gives me a headache. I’m not even an engineer.

By: ABC/123

ABC/123 — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:41:17 +0000

Isn’t this the POLAR DIAMETRIC opposite of what BMW is supposed to stand for?

By: canut4ever

canut4ever — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:39:05 +0000

Looks like a fish

By: Niels

Niels — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:32:34 +0000

The rear end looks like Toyota designed it. The side is ok. The front is ugly.

By: ABC/123

ABC/123 — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:28:06 +0000

In all seriousness Chris, what going on?

(6_6)

By: ABC/123

ABC/123 — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:25:30 +0000

Some BMW purists have been visiting this board/wall…lol.

By: TW

TW — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:21:02 +0000

Bangle is pushing the envelope, which is fine buy me. It takes guts to venture into to new ground. I may not like all of his work, but I respect his taking a chance. When his work first arrived my reaction was WHAT?!? The more you look at it, it grows on you and you begin to appreciate the characterisics of his work. Not all of it successful, but its what BMW needed to stand out in a world of automotive clones. The 6 series coupe I feel is the most integrated and successful of the line to date, though the alloys are too effeminate for my taste.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:06:44 +0000

Absoultley beautiful….

Great modern interpretation of a gorgeous record breaking car….