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BMW's GINA Light Visionary Model design study 11 Jun 2008

BMW's GINA Light Visionary Model concept provides an incredible glimpse of the future of automotive design. The GINA replaces the automobile's traditional metal/plastic skin with a flexible, super strong, textile fabric skin that is pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fibre wires. This allows the shape of the car to morph at will via a system of electro-hydraulic controls. For example when the car's headlights are turned on, its fabric shell stretches open to reveal LED lights!

[via Signal vs. Noise]

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4 comments so far

JJ 11 Jun 2008 09:32 AM

Wow! I guess the fabric skin will make it lighter - i.e. faster - too!

Jamesy 11 Jun 2008 10:38 AM

That is one slick design!

Zidge 11 Jun 2008 01:32 PM

Mindblowing!

Swinefactory 11 Jun 2008 07:44 PM

Cool concept and design approach, wank-tacular pretentious speechifying by design guy.

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