Comments on: BMW's shape-changing concept

The GINA Light Visionary Model has a flexible skin made of a textile fabric that can change the car's shape--in theory.

[opwann]

very cool.

[calculatorwatch]

awesome idea, I especially love the minimalistic look of the interior and the headlights that open like eyes, I don't like how the fabric folds into ripples when the doors open though

[egghead321]

But we suspect that, by the time this ever hits the road, we may well have taken to the skies for our daily commute.
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ya, we might already colonized other planet by that time

[yermom]

i know the guy's probably an engineer by trade, but that whole 'philosophy' bit at the end seemed so terribly scripted. it ruined the rest of the video.

[make_or_break]

No yermom, it's just classic Banglese. And he's a auto stylist by profession. At least he's no longer trying to design BMWs using furniture design as inspiration. Now he's using early WW I airplanes as a role model. Or hand gliders. Or sailboats. Whatever. Think he's been sniffing around the airplane dope a little too much, though. With all those motorized, pivoting subframe members moving about, I wonder if this thing will actually BE more efficient to build as he claims, or be as weight-saving as a conventional unit-body design. Just think about all those additional electric motors that can go kablooey. To think that all I once had to worry about was the sunroof mechanism, rear wing extender and window lifts (it's a Porsche, not a Bimmer).

[arogue]

Interesting article! Chris Bangle may have made a lot of ugly BMW's, but at least he's trying to think radically.


You spelled "real" wrong in the last sentence in the first paragraph.

[JasonS2008]

"Reel" is spelled correctly, its referring to the knight rider movie "reel" aspect being a "real" idea.