[Paul-Bracq-BMW]

Bangle is arguably THE designer of the 2000's. The cars he designed or oversaw were polarising but everybody afterwards copied him. His most famous design element, so called "flame surfacing" has had a huge influence in the complex surface treatments of the cars we know today and had manufacturers made huge advances in sheetmetal forming...

Another thing you can say about him is that under his supervision, all the BMW series had their own identity (not like today where a 5 is similar to a 7 etc) whilst undoubtedly sharing the same DNA. BMW has always struggled to

I really admire him, maybe not for his creations, but for the overall influence he had and still has in car design. And he had the courage to walk out of the car industry to do his own design projects.