Bangle's Fabric car. Cool. He still screwwed up the Z4.
 

The way the headlight move, and the way the hood opens.. almost creepy.

http://news.windingroad.com/concept-cars/bmw-reveals-gina-light-visionary-concept-vehicle/

Bangle is a genius, one of the most influential designer of our lifetime.

Is it my connection or is you tube slow tonight?


It looks amazing, well it still has those ugly Bangle lines, and when you really think about it, Bellanca Citabria airplanes are fabric stretched over a frame and work perfectly.

I like this idea a lot it is possibly the way to go with economical and performance cars in the future.

I suspect this is what McLaren has brewing the the other car thread.

You forgot to use the green font. :)

Bangle needs to be run over with his "stuck in the early 80's GM designs"

Brilliant. I always wondered why body panels weren't made of FRP. Light, cheap, flexible and easily replaced.

Gostraight care to comment on that? :p

Very neat concepts. I'm not a Bangle fan (he makes it very easy to cross off BMW from my list of cars I'd actually want to buy/own). But it seems as if lots of other car designers are using his styling cues in their own stuff. Imitation is the sincerest form, they say. I wonder if the car'll shrink if it gets caught out in the rain, though.

Doped fabric has been used on airplanes since oh, about 1908 or so.

This does represent an interesting direction though. Simple and reasonably smart.

True to BMW's airplane traditions/influence too.

I love the Bangle Z4. Guess I'm an idiot.

Unfortunately, his influence is spiraling car design downwards. Someday, the pendulum will swing back, and I may be interested in new cars again.

From bmw-web.tv

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I will say this, love him or hate him, we are talking about him..

I think the overall idea is a great one. I dunno if I'd go with that material, but I think he might be on to something.

I wonder at the cost, and the longer term viability.

Not only that, but just about every car manufacturer out there, from Acura to Mercedes, have adopted his designs and hard edged, "flame surfacing."

It's really quite amazing, the influence one single designer has had on an entire industry. And, it was such a radical departure from the jelly-bean aero ethos that existed before him.

You have to go back probably to the '50s to find designers who had such influence and changed the entire direction of automotive styling.

(of course, a board inhabited mostly by owners of old porsches is going to be filled with automotive luddites, resistant to any new direction. heck, although I admire Bangle for the influence he has exerted, I'm guilty of resistance myself).

I dont like it.

Interesting idea... but I can only imagine how much the car's exterior would deform at high speed!

One thing the metal body work is also good for is stopping high speed debris in an accident or if you hit a bird or whatever.

Didn't we do the fabric thing before with bi-planes? Pretty amusing when 100 year old aviation tech is portrayed as the cutting edge of automobile design.

LOL.

sniper as far as I know some plane manufacturers are still using cloth.

I think its brilliant and I hope to see it in production. It will turn the whole automotive industry on its ear and I honestly think its great, a fender bender will turn into a fabric rip, no more door dings, and the worst you may have to do is replace some tubes and some fabric.

Way to go BMW if these become mainstream I will jump for joy I only see good from this. Even is the body design is ugly, oh and BTW, my whole house thinks the headlights are awesome and cringe at the hood, how do you work in that engine bay? Forceps?

Just think of the applications of this new technology...

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You start with the special Bangle designed speculum.:D