How, exactly, BMW designers achieve such a lyric quality is something even they might find difficult to explain, but if they could bottle it, other companies would buy it.

BMW designers pored over archives at the Rolls-Royce foundation.

Mr. Bangle and other BMW designers worked on their off hours to create a sculpture celebrating their profession.

"I don't think car design can just be making boxes," said one young BMW designer at the Geneva show.

BMW Car Designers Paul Jaray in the overview of the BMW automotive designers.

BMW designers get high marks for smart packaging.

BMW Designers Fritz Fiedler among the BMW automotive designers.

Around 1925 two specially hired BMW designers, Max Friz and Gotthilf Dürrwächter, both former employees of Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart, were commissioned by BMW's Managing Director Franz Josef Popp to design a BMW production car.

The shape is named for Wilhelm Hofmeister, a BMW designer in the 1960s; knick is German for fold or crease.