View Poll Results: Bangle, what are your thoughts?

I always liked the design, then and now

25.58%

I hated it then, I hate it now

34.88%

I liked them in the past but not anymore

4.65%

I did not like them at first but I like them now

11.63%

Dude invite me for some curry goat for X-mas

13.95%

After ten years I am still on the fence!! Not sure

9.30%

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07-20-12, 03:07 PM

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Just look at the high rear ends of the 2IS, 3GS and LS models. The high rear is now a staple in auto design.

The E60 didn't have a high rear deck compared to it's competition

07-21-12, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by oblivionis

This exactly is my problem with the new GS. Up front it looks so much like the IS that hard to tell them apart. I fear that Lexus is heading in that same direction of having all sedans look the same.

I hate that cokie-cutter design crap.

07-21-12, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by rominl

but it's just like back in the late 80s and early 90s when most cars were boxy, if they came out with the bulking round looking 2gs, people would say it's super weird and ugly looking. why? coz' the car wasn't for that time. but for sure it's the future, came late 90s and the car got all the attention and most definitely influential on cars to come in the next few years.

Actually, the original 1986 Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable started the whole buisness of soap-bar/aero styling of mass-production sedans. But you're right...with most of the sedans of the 1980s, you could actually see out the back end of the car, over the trunk. That was before the obsession with wedge-profiles and raised trunk-lids ruined rear-visibility.

I had a 1984 Mazda GLC, for example, with excellent visibility out the back.......it was a prime example of how to design a trunk-lid for visibility:

07-21-12, 09:23 AM

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I see you're missing a side mirror there Mike,

As far as bangle designs, I did like the E60 (I WILL own an E60 M5 eventually)

The 7 Series not so much,

07-21-12, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by rkyat

I see you're missing a side mirror there Mike,

That wasn't my particular car...mine was silver.

: I only posted the image to show the trunk-shape for comparison. It was a good image for showing how good visibility used to be out the back of sedans before the industry got obsessed with the wedge-shape and (later) the Bangle-type rear ends.