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11-01-2003, 12:11
BMW Receives Two Major Honors From Automobile Magazine
2003 Man of the Year and Design of the Year Awards Presented at North American International Auto Show
DETROIT, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- At the North American International Auto Show today, Automobile Magazine formally presented BMW with two major editorial awards, which were announced in Automobile's January 2003 issue. Chris Bangle, BMW Chief of Design, was named the 2003 Man of the Year, while the BMW Z4 -- one of Bangle's own creations -- was named the 2003 Design of the Year.
Bangle was dubbed by Automobile "the most controversial car designer in the world." The magazine's editors said the choice of Man of the Year wasn't easy, but they "all agreed that no single person in the automotive world has caused as much impassioned conversation, as much controversy, as this Wisconsin-born, Art Center-educated, European-experienced American."
In awarding the Design of the Year to the Z4, one of Bangle's most talked-about shapes, the magazine noted that it is "one of the few all-new cars this year," adding that it "breaks new ground with its complex -- not to say convoluted -- play of convexity and concavity linked to hard lines that flow in the direction the car will move." The Z4, Automobile said, "is sculpturally dynamic and quite unlike anything else on the market."
The awards were presented at a special ceremony during press preview of the North American International Auto Show at Detroit's Cobo Hall this morning, January 6.
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2003 Man of the Year and Design of the Year Awards Presented at North American International Auto Show
DETROIT, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- At the North American International Auto Show today, Automobile Magazine formally presented BMW with two major editorial awards, which were announced in Automobile's January 2003 issue. Chris Bangle, BMW Chief of Design, was named the 2003 Man of the Year, while the BMW Z4 -- one of Bangle's own creations -- was named the 2003 Design of the Year.
Bangle was dubbed by Automobile "the most controversial car designer in the world." The magazine's editors said the choice of Man of the Year wasn't easy, but they "all agreed that no single person in the automotive world has caused as much impassioned conversation, as much controversy, as this Wisconsin-born, Art Center-educated, European-experienced American."
In awarding the Design of the Year to the Z4, one of Bangle's most talked-about shapes, the magazine noted that it is "one of the few all-new cars this year," adding that it "breaks new ground with its complex -- not to say convoluted -- play of convexity and concavity linked to hard lines that flow in the direction the car will move." The Z4, Automobile said, "is sculpturally dynamic and quite unlike anything else on the market."
The awards were presented at a special ceremony during press preview of the North American International Auto Show at Detroit's Cobo Hall this morning, January 6.
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