Today’s BMW 7 Series is the most successful version in the model’s history, but it’s not because critics have fawned over the car. It debuted in America for 2002 with controversial styling penned by Adrian von Hooydonk and approved by Chris Bangle, and was first out of the chute with the much maligned iDrive control knob, but it wasn’t the first of the Bangelized Bimmers. Like the way the BMW Z3 and Z8 look? Those are Bangle designs, too. Nevertheless, the 7 Series ushered in a groundbreaking new design language for BMW, and sales of nearly every model have gone through the roof.