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Originally Posted by x5love
hasn't Adrian van Hooydonk basically been designing BMWs for the past few years?
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Although it seems many on this forum are singing praises that Bangle is gone, many others are right in saying that the new head of design, Adrian van Hooydonk, has been working hand-in-hand with Bangle on BMW's design direction for years. One of BMW's most notable and polarizing "flame-surfaced" designs in the past 7 years was the Z4 roadster and coupe.
Guess who hand the primary hand in designing those cars? - you guessed it, Van Hooydonk.
So don't expect a massive change in BMW's design direction over the next 7 years. (Certainly no change as dramatic as the change in design from the pre-2002 to the post-2002 "banglized" 7 series and onward.)
Face it, BMW has pointed it's style in one direction and not much will change that. Van Hooydonk won't either.