By Design: BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage Concept - Automobile
Before Albrecht Goertz drew the brilliant 1956 BMW 507 roadster, no BMW held any aesthetic charm for me. The 328 roadsters of the late ’30s were mechanically interesting, but they were also stubby and dumpy. The big 501 sedan of 1952 (the first car sold by BMW after World War II) contributed its hardware to the 507, but it was a frumpy machine with little charm apart from the 502 variant being the first postwar car from Germany to get a V-8. BMW was... Bracq was always frustrated by the aero drag from the “motorboat” front ends that BMW management insisted on preserving from Michelotti’s design for the New Class. Good as they were, Bracq’s cars were the epitome of the “one sausage, many lengths” school, and this design approach was stifling BMW before Chris Bangle took charge in 1992. The truth is that Bangle’s cars handsomely outsold their predecessors,... and complex sheetmetal surfaces (created by Chris Bangle, although the so-called Bangle Butt of the 2002 7 Series was actually imagined by Adrian van Hooydonk for the 1999 BMW Z9 concept car). Source: www.automobilemag.com
