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MangaTutorials.com :: View topic - Tomorrow's Car----Today!
The futuristic design study shows how BMW designers are thinking outside of the box when it comes to the materials that make up a car and also how the car relates to the driver.
GINA stands for "Geometry and Functions in 'N' Adaptations", which basically means that designers from both BMW and BMW Group DesignworksUSA were allowed to throw out the rulebook.
This is most evident in the GINA Light Visionary Model's outer skin, which is made entirely out of textile fabric that's pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires.
The skeleton of the car is controlled by electro-hydraulic devices and can actually move and change shape beneath the fabric skin.
For instance, the headlights of the concept can be exposed or hidden by the car's skin just like blinking eyes, and the hood opens from the center as the fabric parts to expose the engine.
This idea extends to the interior, where BMW designers have made visible only those instruments that are required at a certain time, while the rest of the time the same fabric interior "blinks" them out of view.
The car itself looks somewhat like a Z4 Roadster, though after viewing the extensive gallery of high-res images below, you'll be amazed how much the outer skin looks like normal sheetmetal.
Until, that is, you see how the doors open.
They lift up in a semi-scissor fashion and since there are no exposed hinges, the fabric artfully binds up as the door swings open.
While the design of the GINA Light Visionary Model is very Bangle-esque with concave and convex surfaces intermingling everywhere you look, it looks appropriate and natural here.
The car is very much a concept, meant more to inspire BMW's own designers and engineers rather than excite the public, but now we're excited about shape-changin, fabric-covered cars, anyway.
Heres a link to the video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTYiEkQYhWY
I would like to hears thoughts, comments, complaints, pros and cons....
Discuss away...
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Fabric, Bad idea
http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/attackthis/65093/Futuristic-Transportation.html
More of the futures transportation
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Lol, double-gazzump time.
Seawater powered cars are the future, my freind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46TFbwhOn7w
((Skip to 1:00 if you don't like Clarkson.
8P))
I admit the BMW looks extremely nice, but that "skin" would be a pain in the arse to maintain, realistically.
>_>
Also, to ShadowWolf;
At least two of those have been used by militaries since WWII.
8P
Last edited by Regantor on Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:21 pm;
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Quote: : Fabric, Bad idea
I'm thinking of a rip or tear...
It only takes 2 hrs and a few thousand dollars probablyfor a new suit to be put on.
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I'm hyjacking this as the "strange vehicles" thread, if you don't mind...
Dug this collection of weird russian prototype tanks out the other day;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrNkV6kVPos&feature=related
The four-tracked one has been my favourate obscure find for a while, but I didn't know they stuck rockets ON the tanks too.
XD
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Quote: : lol, double-gazzump time.
Seawater powered cars are the future, my freind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46TFbwhOn7w
((Skip to 1:00 if you don't like Clarkson.
8P))
I admit the BMW looks extremely nice, but that "skin" would be a pain in the arse to maintain, realistically.
>_>
Also, to ShadowWolf;
At least two of those have been used by militaries since WWII.
8P
That's awesome and all but I'm getting tired of car companies delaying cars with engines that don't run on gas.
We're going to need them once the oil incident happens.
I understand they need to fine-tune it but how much fine-tuning does a working car design need?
Not enough to delay it for more than 5 years.
Make the damn car already.
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Why did you think oil prices are still rising even through Iraq is more-or-less back in the game?
(It's not like more than a fraction of the world's oil comes from there anyway.)
I wouldn't be surpised if the fuel companies themselves are holding the car makers to ransom.
With the whole global warming thing going on, they stand to loose more money than most countries have.
Lining their pockets before the industy falls is what they are doing.
It's a good thing that the man who invented this is still acting independently, and hasn't sold the paitent then;
Just don't hold your breath for it to come out for public use.
U-_-
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I love the metal boxes with wheels that you crawl in
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Does anyone know how strong the material is?
Also, is it substantially lighter or something?
Because if it's just the same as metal, I really don't see an incentive to buy something like this until we like, run out of steel.
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Quote: : Does anyone know how strong the material is?
Also, is it substantially lighter or something?
Because if it's just the same as metal, I really don't see an incentive to buy something like this until we like, run out of steel.
We dont even use steel in the cars today, it's all that fiberglass crap...
Give me an old 50's chevy anytime..
Good ol days of steel...
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Wtf no steel? I thought they used steel for most of it.
Like, carbon fibre for some of it, but jeez.
Fibreglass? That's like riding around in a piece of Tupperware.
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The future cars are horses wearing caps P:
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