BMW will be saying goodbye to an iconic design trait that's visually defined the brand for over a century: chrome-wrapped kidney grilles. Speaking recently with enthusiast site BMWBlog, BMW Group ...

a mid-size sedan that introduced the brand’s famous kidney grille. Others followed, such as the compact 321 and the 328 convertible sports cars. After WWII, BMW was in a financial crisis ...

The front end - despite the camo - looks sleeker and the BMW kidney grille has shrunken to a more demure design (adopting the pre-meme definition of the word). Group design director Adrian van ...

BMW is about to launch its hotly anticipated ... along with what looks like a reshaped, smaller kidney grille shape. The profile of the 7 Series will remain big and blocky, but we expect the ...

That was before it helped kickstart the SUV craze; now instead of 3, 5, 7, the series run 2–8 and X1 through ... of the 430i's grille is something you get used to. Back in BMW's simpler days ...