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07/07/09
That said, if VW wants to send me a suitcase packed with cash, I'm all for it!
07/06/09
I'll always remember the morning after the casino guy, and the unfaithful husband woman.
Oh, and the one where the couple are in the car for hundreds of miles, and everything is perfect except for this continula tiny squeak. Despite endless searching, they can't find the source. Eventually they pull into a tiny service station in the desert, and the gnarly old proprietor leans into the car, looks around, and puts a drop of oil on the womans pendant earrings.
07/06/09
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :D
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07/05/09
Absolute classic.
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07/05/09
It's a line that has stuck with me ever since.
07/05/09
03/17/09
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...oh, yeah, fuck it then.
03/17/09
03/17/09
For the last 10 years, manufacturers have been showing us awesome, then running awesome through the focus groups until it comes out mangled crap. The only exceptions to this are put at rediculous price points where very few can afford them.
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... wait for it...
Aztek!
YUK!
03/17/09
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03/17/09
And taking retro cues doesn't mean remaking the old car. If that car was in showrooms I'd buy it yesterday.
Also, just because something was ruined by bean counters and non-designers on one car doesn't mean it'll fail on everything else.
I'd love to see the design you'd come up with, and no you can't just use the old car.
03/17/09
/ducks
I just know that many of the commenters around here love to pile the hate on anything he is/was associated with so to say that something is worse than Bangle is a great insult in the Jalopnoverse.
03/17/09
03/17/09
Are you trolling? By boxes on wheels you aren't referring to the E46, E39, E38, E36, E34, E30, E28, E24, E21, E12, E9, are you? Try and imagine yourself 50 years from now looking back at the BMW time line, how do you explain the era when Bangle took over?
BMW's teutonic design language was conservative, clean, coldly precise, etc. and that's why I loved them. I don't hate Bangle's designs, I actually like some of them, I just hate that he had to use BMW as the platform to launch them into the world. I liked BMW just the way it was, Mercedes would have been a much better fit for Bangle.
03/17/09
It isn't really a rallying thing, it's more like... Bangle styles vehicles controversially. A lot of people are vocal about hating them, but last I checked they're still selling BMWs all over the place, so.
03/17/09
"I liked BMW just the way it was, Mercedes would have been a much better fit for Bangle."
That's my main problem with Bangle. At that time, BMW couldn't afford to do risky designs. Mercedes could. But because of those designs they're where they are today.
03/18/09
Are you trolling? By boxes on wheels you aren't referring to the E46, E39, E38, E36, E34, E30, E28, E24, E21, E12, E9, are you? Try and imagine yourself 50 years from now looking back at the BMW time line, how do you explain the era when Bangle took over?
The E46, E38, E39 were styled after Bangle took over.
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