The story of Paul Bracq, the father of BMW's modern design

01-26-2017, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul-Bracq-BMW

Video from BMW's current head of design: Karim Habib.

IMO, nowadays, design studios of car companies are comprised of a lot of people so in the end, a car design is an amalgalm of ideas put together instead of the vision of a single man like it used to be. Therefore there is this "design by commitee" result that most cars look so similar... Maybe that's the problem of car designs nowadays...

Boy did THIS post jump the shark!

Agree re: the 635CSi. In Europe it was the 633CSi; My dad drove a metallic green one while the family lived in Germany in my early teens. That car and the then-ubiquitous E21 -- and the K100RS bike a neighbor had (alongside his alternate ride: a majorly souped-up naked Honda CB1000) were what stoked my BMW love.

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