20 Years After Its Launch, What Are Your Thoughts On Chris Bangle's BMW 7 Series E65? | Carscoops carscoops
. His most famous, or should we say infamous creation, is the E65 7-Series and now, some two decades after its release, we wonder what you all think of it now.
To be very clear, Bangle himself didn’t put the pen to paper with regard to the E65 7-Series. That job was done by the man who ultimately succeeded Bangle as the head of design at BMW, Adrian van Hooydonk. Despite that, as the man who ultimately signed off on that design, the car’s rear end was dubbed the Bangle-Butt to the point that even today, many automotive enthusiasts are familiar with the phrase.
In fact, some people still hate it so much that they go to extreme lengths, like grafting the tail lights from aMore:The E65 BMW 7-Series was really…something compared to the slick and sleek E38 that preceded it It’s quite clear that BMW as a brand had no problem with the somewhat shocking break from convention that Chris Bangle introduced to the lineup. It wasn’t long ago that critics were calling the brand out for its excessively large vertical kidney grilles. On top of that,Perhaps Bangle and van Hooydonk were ahead of their time.
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