
Looks like the folks over at BMW have made a very interesting car that is covered with cloth and can shape-shift. I kept going back between cool and stupid as read about this crazy thing. The car looks pretty cool and I love how the headlights close up like little eyes - creepy/cool/crazy.
Instead of steel, aluminum or even carbon fiber, the GINA Light Visionary Model
has a body of seamless fabric stretched over a movable metal frame that
allows the driver to change its shape at will. The car -- which
actually runs and drives -- is a styling design headed straight for the
BMW Museum in Munich and so it will never see production, but building a practical car wasn't the point.
Chris Bangle, head of design for BMW, says GINA allowed his team to "challenge existing principles and conventional processes."
"It
is in the nature of such visions that they do not necessarily claim to
be suitable for series production," company officials said in unveiling
the car Tuesday. "Rather, they are intended to steer creativity and
research into new directions."
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