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05-04-2005, 03:57 AM | #1 |
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E90's Exterior Designer
A lot of people on the net dont seem to know who the designer of the exterior of the E90 was
No it was not Bangle, he has moved on a bit, and Adrian van Hooydonk ( desiger of 6 Series exterior) is doing his job now But the Designer of the exterior of the E90 is Joji Nagashima He also designed the E39 5 Series exterior |
05-04-2005, 04:21 AM | #3 |
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Job well done, I say.
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05-04-2005, 07:56 AM | #4 | |
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The same is done with the interior They then had to get verything approved by Bangle, but now its van Hooydonk |
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05-04-2005, 09:23 AM | #6 | |
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Joji Nagashima: E36 3 series, Z3, E39 5 series Boyke Boyer: E38 7 series Klaus Kapitza: E31 8 series Geoff Velasco: X3 (Designworks) Chris Chapman: X5 (Designworks) Anders Warming: Z4 (Designworks) Henrik Fisker: Z8 (now with Aston) Kevin Rice: new 1 series Erik Goplen: E46 3 series (Designworks/USA) David Arcangeli: E60 5 series |
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I read the Z4 and 1 Series exteriors were by Chris Chapman Edit: a quick search shows Rice was project leader, but what I read before is Chapman drew the exterior |
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05-04-2005, 01:04 PM | #11 |
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Wow now I am really confused about who actually designed it
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Middle: Matthias Hoffman, designer of winning proposal EDIT: more photos of Matthias Hoffman working on clay model added. Last edited by maq; 12-03-2005 at 12:09 AM.. |
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12-02-2005, 11:55 PM | #20 | |
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12-03-2005, 12:05 AM | #21 |
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More info for those who are interested.
The initial research phase of the E90 project started in the late 90's, at which time a Rover-friendly platform was still on the table. BMW dumped Rover in 2000, and started the E80 1-series project, which also was assigned to the Munich studio. Initial design work on the 2 projects ran at the same time at first, but the E90 was stopped for a while so they could focus on the E80. The E90 was revived in late 2001, an in-house competition took place: 15 designers participated, 6 of the proposals were made into clay models, and eventually Nagashima's proposal was selected to be further developed for production. Then a team was formed to finalize everything: senior design manager Boyke Boyer as exterior design director and Mike Ninic as interior design director. Both of them who have been with BMW for over 2 decades reported to Chris Bangle. The exterior was ready to be signed off in late 2002, prototypes were built and sent to testing in 2003. Some more photos: 1: Joji Nagashima 2: Nagashima directing modeller 3: Nagashima on drawing board 4: Nagashima working on clay model 5: Boyke Boyer (left 3) |
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12-03-2005, 12:49 AM | #22 |
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This is so ironic. BMW evokes the idea of German Engineering, yet Mr. Nagashima was born in Japan and educated in the U.S.A.
I wonder who is actually responsible for the e60 headlight "eyebrows" and the shape of the e90 headlights. In cartoon form, they could easily transform into Anime characters. |
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