BMW Builds a Shape-Shifting Car Out of Cloth Read More

Concept cars give automotive designers a chance to let their imaginations run wild, often with outlandish results. But even by that measure, BMW has come up with something as strange as it is innovative — a shape-shifting car covered with fabric.

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."

Giving Bangle and his team that latitude to design so radical a car "helps to tap into formerly inconceivable, innovative potential" to push the boundaries of appearance and materials as well as functions and the manufacturing process, BMW says.

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New Honda PUYO Concept Car

Honda is an doubtless leader in concept cars creation. At the Tokyo Motor Show 2007, Honda presented the Honda PUYO concept car. This car looks not like a car at all, a kind of a small bus! But, this car is full of advantages: it is aimed to convey nice and friendly impression and to be fun, safe and bright, what is more environmentally-friendly car based on fuel cell technology.

 The motto of Honda cars looked like this: “For the endless joy of mobility on our earth”. So, Honda designers were aimed to make environmentally and driver friendly car and at the same time funny car (this car is a pleasant one for both diver and people around).

Exterior design So, while designing PUYO, manufacturers followed these aims: to make car cornerless, car with the maximum spaciousness, make a car of great real-world safety. Also, the body of the car is a luminescent one.

Interior design This car is made and aimed for you to feel yourself comfortable. It gives a “silky feel” and feeling of clearness. Driving becomes a real pleasure. A joystick is put instead of a steering wheel.


Honda PUYO – general impression
PUYO is something that conveys warmth and friendliness, also, it take care about people round and makes them laugh. The body of the Honda PUYO is made from special material (like gel), thus, the safety is high and lights shining through the gel body are so cute. The design is minimalist but still ultra-efficient.

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Concept Car : Ferrari Zobin

Designer Siamak Ruhi Dehkordi from Iran created this latest concept of Ferrari future car. He was inspired with Italian firm’s Formula 1 cars. The Zobin is an aerodynamic single seater with compact dimensions (4,114mm long and 1,855 mm wide).