If you read about the electric car Chris Bangle presented in 2018, you’ll remember that REDS – Revolutionary Electric Dream Space – looked very unusual, to say the least. After watching the video ...

When it comes to the court of public opinion, for many the jury is still out on American car designer Chris Bangle. Born in 1956, Bangle was raised in Wisconsin and chose car design over a career as a ...

Chris Bangle left a big mark on the design of BMW cars that echoed through the brand’s styling efforts long after his departure. He introduced innovative design principles like flame surfacing, he ...

When Alfa Romeo folded its tents and left the U.S. market in 1995, its product line had been reduced to the 164 LS sedan and its upmarket sibling, the 164 Quadrifoglio. (The ancient Spider was ...

Maybe Chris Bangle was right. Bangle, the brilliant and controversial head of BMW design, changed course abruptly in 2002. Starting with the 7 Series, he substituted slashing, angular body lines, ...

The rise of electric vehicles convinced a lot of people that they could break into the automotive industry. One such company is Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone maker. Just how well have they managed the ...

3 Sep 2013, 13:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica // If there's one controversial character to ever get behind major projects at BMW, it's Chris Bangle. He was the one responsible for the E60 5 Series and the ...

In the words of the great David Letterman, my next guest truly needs no introduction. I’m going to give him one anyway. Chris Bangle, longtime head of BMW design and one of the most famous and iconic ...

“Design, as it is known and taught, is unable, on a systemic level, to cope with the dimension of change coming to the world,” writes Chris Bangle in an article he sends over for me to ponder. The ...

From geopolitics to technology, from economics to architecture, the 2025 edition of the Oscar Pomilio Blumm Forum gathered three leading voices of the global debate at the Aurum in Pescara to reflect ...

In the wake of the pandemic, as the world went into shutdown mode, I received an email from Chris Bangle. It contained his polemic on the future of car design. Written originally alongside his ...