January 19, 2006:

Bangle’s Passionate Pursuit

Another interesting article recently in Automotive Design & Production, which mentions the various MINI concepts seen recently (interior, Detroit, Tokyo, Frankfurt)

With the BMW brand work essentially complete, Bangle will focus his attention on another automotive icon, MINI … a partial glimpse at the next iteration via the MINI Concept Frankfurt … Bangle is mum on specifics when it comes to the future of MINI design … but he is willing to say that MINI is more than the car itself: “MINI is a brand, not a car. To me it’s less a question of what kind of MINI will be out there, but how will MINI make a jump to the next paradigm,” Bangle says. “There’s a lot of room to work in.”

I don’t know about you, but “a jump to the next paradigm” does not inspire me ;)

Posted by GBMINI at 08:56 pm | Uncategorized
Comments: 6 (post new comment)

  1. blalor (2006/01/19 @ 10:45 pm)

    Oh, no! please Please PLEASE don’t let that man near my MINI!!

  2. Gabe (2006/01/19 @ 11:56 pm)

    Actually he was already near your MINI. He’s the one that approved the final design of the car you’re driving.

  3. giacomo (2006/01/20 @ 9:48 am)

    Do you think the beard is so he can hide in public?

  4. Josh Wardell (2006/01/20 @ 12:22 pm)

    Might as well start putting creases in all your body panels now before your mini looks dated!

  5. giacomo (2006/01/20 @ 1:31 pm)

    I didn’t know there was a petition to remove him from BMW?

  6. Aqualung (2006/01/20 @ 10:00 pm)

    Here’s another pro-Bangle article…

    http://www.mini2.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107727

    Thankfully I can’t afford a 7-Series anyway ;-(

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