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Originally Posted by uthatch
Maybe it's in spite of, but I don't think it's necessarily so. Many cars that copied the BMW design are also quite successful, such as the S Class and LS from Lexus.
So many cars took this design direction in fact, that's it's hard to call it blind, IMHO. There are a lot of cars out there with the Bangle butt in some form or another, and I can appreciate not liking the look, but numbers don't lie...he's been very influential, copied, and successful.
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S class has always been succesful and always will be
its the first car people get when they want to show they have money
ask any CEO what he drives and probably the number one car they all drive is the S class, so the styling is not that important as much as the snob appeal
LS i am not sure how succesful it is
i don't see too many of them on the street
and while he was copied
i think anything that BMW does is copied whether right or wrong
and name another designer that got so much bad press as bangle did
people actually made a petition to get rid of him
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_pe...ned.cgi?STOPCB
and wait and see
BMW will continue to grow with or without bangle
i don't think he was the reason they overtook MB on sales as much as the fact that they make great cars