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Gavin Green on copycat styling (CAR archive, July 1990)

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Gavin Green, 12 July 2012 09:00

‘A new Metro went by me the other day and, to tell you the truth, I thought it was a Citroen AX. And that upset me, because if I can’t tell them apart then what chance has the average motorist got? After all, I designed the AX.’Geoff Matthews is one of Britain’s finest car stylists. His Midlands-based design consultancy, Styling ...

Gavin Green on 2012's fine new F30 BMW 3-series

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Gavin Green, 21 February 2012 09:00

Just back from Spain, where I’ve been driving the new 3-series saloon on those magical winding roads of Andalusia. As expected, it is a terrific car. The new one is a step-on from its predecessor, especially in cabin quality, handling and looks (leaner, sleeker, less multi-angle Bangled). The agility and balance of the new 3 – I drove both 320d ...

BMW's influence in car design, by Stephen Bayley

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Stephen Bayley, 23 January 2012 09:23

To appreciate the resonance of the last decade’s revolution in BMW design, it’s necessary to understand the company’s huge historic debt to a modernist ideas factory that became the world’s most influential art school. 'Art and technology : a new unity' was the Bauhaus slogan and before the Second World War, BMW already had a department of Kunstlerische Gestaltung (Artistic ...

Why Mondeo Man has got it right

Ben Whitworth, 27 April 2007 09:19

Give me a Ford over a BMW any day, argues Ben Whitworth Much to my disappointment, my eldest brother doesn't give a damn about cars. 'They’re just tools, something to get you from A to B,' he says flatly. 'Nothing more.' He drives a Mondeo. Before that he drove a Ford Probe. I rest my case. But the irony of ...

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