Christopher Edward Bangle was born on October 14,1956 and is an American automobile designer.
13 Facts About Chris Bangle
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Chris Bangle was born in Ravenna, Ohio, and raised in Wausau, Wisconsin.
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Chris Bangle started his career at Opel in Germany, where he worked from 1981 until 1985.
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Chris Bangle moved to Fiat in Italy in 1985, to work on the second generation Fiat Panda.
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Chris Bangle became the first American chief of design of BMW on October 1,1999, where he designed the Z9 Gran Turismo concept car.
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Chris Bangle's designs are incorporated in the entire BMW lineup, including the BMW Z4,1,3,5,6 and 7 series as well as the X3, X5, and X6 the newest design SUVs, and the concept car Gina.
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Chris Bangle introduced a new BMW concept car, called GINA on June 10,2008.
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On February 3,2009, Chris Bangle announced that he was to quit both his position at BMW and the auto industry altogether, to focus on his own design-related endeavours.
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Chris Bangle acknowledges that his designs do not look good in photographs, suggesting to critics that they should see the cars in real life before judging them on their looks.
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Chris Bangle himself did not coin the phrase "flame surfacing" to describe his work; this can be attributed to a motoring journalist, and is probably the first time Deconstructivism has been adapted to automotive design.
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Chris Bangle was supported by the BMW board of directors, who wanted to move BMW's image into the future.
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Chris Bangle said it was necessary for product lines to follow a cycle of a revolutionary generation followed by an evolutionary generation followed by another revolutionary generation and so on.
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For Chris Bangle this marked the end of the evolution of BMW design and the revolution was witnessed with the 2002 introduction of the BMW E65.