{"id":5361,"date":"2013-08-30T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2013-08-30T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T20:46:39","slug":"bangle-auto-design-is-stuck-in-a-rut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5361","title":{"rendered":"Bangle: Auto design is stuck in a rut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20130830\/OEM03\/308319997&#038;template=mobile\">Claire Bal<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Bangle&#8217;s opinion, many designers talk about innovation, but nobody is really doing it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even concept cars today simply anticipate the next production model coming down the line. Is this innovation? No. And at the end of the day this is what&#8217;s preventing car design from moving into a new era,&#8221; Bangle said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he has offers to become design director at some automakers, but has turned them down every time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Designing cars consumes you; it has a hold on your spirit which is incredibly powerful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not something you can do part time, you have do it with all your heart and soul or you&#8217;re going to get it wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While he loved working for BMW, he said &#8220;you have to know when to leave the party.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Bal: In Bangle&#8217;s opinion, many designers talk about innovation, but nobody is really doing it. &#8220;Even concept cars today simply anticipate the next production model coming down the line. Is this innovation? No. And at the end of the day this is what&#8217;s preventing car design from moving into a new era,&#8221; Bangle said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}