350z + 6 series + Z4 + jaguar + mazda = BMW GINA
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sounds like vaGINA

^^^ Don’t tell xyunya that, don’t want his wife to catch him with his little pecker in the tail pipe of this car.

An exercise in futility.

So Bangle just keeps on proving that he’s overpaid. It would be interesting calling a seamstress to get collision repair done.

UFO tech.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!

I like those wheels

HemiRetard: I glad you have visions of my little pecker. You may come out of the closet eventually and join La****Lover in a circle of love. You two will make a cute couple.

About the car: the overall shape is very Z3ish, but all those surfaces and extra planes are typical Bangle errors of judgment. Imagine what will happen if you have to take it to a body shop? Imagine what will get nicked most in the parking lot? And those joint surfaces are quite visible - nicks will be staring at you.

Ergonomics is a nightmare. You can’t keep eyes on the road and on your instruments. I hope it has audible device to advise you of what you need to see.

I dunno…I really like it. Very cool idea. I love how the headlights open up like eyelids and how it “winks” at you at the end of the video.

F*ck the car, we need technology that changes the shape of your significant other at the touch of a button.

Is there a button that makes it look good?

I like the idea, and if they could get it to be completely seamless it would greatly reduce drag. But, how easy would this be to vandalize? Oops, I just keyed your car and tore a huge hole down the entire side of it.

who cares

The new official KING OF CLOWN CARS!

I’d say GINA stands for

…. G ermans
…. I nna
…. N ut
…. A sylum

Bangle must ahve been smoked out to design somthing likes this
” Bangle -imagine this man it is a car…. that can wink at you ….. and it has an adjustable body.”
Norbert Reithofer - how will you make it adjustable
bangle-fabric man we’ll build the car out of fabric
Norbert Reithofer build it we need attention the m1 looks like crap we need to distract them

say what you want but bangle has influenced alot of cars

wow everyone that hates this thing is retarded, it is absolutely amazing and if the cost could be made mainstream as with any technology something like this could surely be the future. He’s right… who said that a car has to be made entirely out of metal?

johnnycanuck, good thinking, but believe me with age you don’t know what direction that shape will go, so live it to mother nature. You cant fix nature.

why hasn’t anyone built a car that can avoid radar detection? they can build a Stealth bomber so why not stealth car- and this fabric better be water AND fire resistant, i can just see Halloween night and the good ol’ pranksters from the neighborhood setting fire to your ‘fabric’ made BMW

^ lol I second that.

Aircraft had fabric frame coverings and wing coverings for decades, before aluminum became cheap enough to use, so I guess that’s the concept here. I can’t say I would be interested unless the material was Tyvek or Kevlar (both used in bulletproof vests and flak helmets). Oh, and Chris Bangle has the aesthetics of Hellen Keller crossed with the good taste of Wayne Newton and Ivana Trump.

2bh i like it. it looks frakin cool. i think they could have made the back likes pop up or out 2

The looks to be very interesting. I wonder how the material will hold up to the pressures of of high speed, high down force, aerodynamics. The frame shouldn’t be a problem, making it crash-worthy

Strange how some people don’t quiet get how advanced aircraft technology is over automobile technology that when a company tries it one a concept that they instantly say it is “stupid” or otherwise a bad idea. Imaginer how much better cars could be if, when responsibly used, aircraft material technologies were used to make car lighter, faster, and more flexible.

I would lay odds that we will see a super or exotic sports car with an adaptive cloth body in the next ten years.

The car could have been another color though. Silver is so over played it is actually quite boring now. The car looks mostly featureless with out some color scheme or just another color to give the car a personality that Is there but masked under that bland neutral silver coloring. Maybe different colored lights or environment?

Cool idea though. Boring execution.

Those eye-like headlights are just wicked!

Dear Mr. Bangle,

There is a difference between thinking “outside the box” and thinking “with your head up your ass.”

Sincerely,
… People With Taste

Completely stupid. You can change the shape of the car with a touch of a button? Unfortunately, all the designs that it will change to are Bangle designs. Is there even any talk of crashworthiness? There must be more than a skeletal structure underneath to protect the occupants, right?

There is also a YouTube video on the BMWwebTV channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTYiEkQYhWY with a big comment thread.

Kinda reminds me of the Hindenburg.

Pointless Bimmer!

lol mayer_ray_nagin, next they’ll be anouncing that it will offer an alternative powertrain fueled by helium…

http://homepage.mac.com/barthold.van.acker/realbasic/ohthehumanity.jpg

The eyes are pretty cool. That’s it, though.

Origami ****piece.

It’s so funny to see so many people say this concept is pointless!
Bad news for you my friends: you might have heard: MOST concepts are just that: pointless works of art meant to convey new ideas! This car excels at this!
I like Chris Bangle as a car designer. He’s the type of designer everybody loves to hate! He’s leads an entire team of designers that actually think outside the box. Sometimes when thinking outside the box, some side-effects can occur like some of the designer’s ideas penetrating some of the most sacred “holes” in people’s minds!
I think this concept is really cool just because of that: it makes narrow-minded people say “that’s outrageous and pointless, nobody would do that!” It’s like beer: brings out the racist redneck in some people that might work for Affirmative Action while sober :p
I hope no real-life rednecks working for Affirmative Action are offended by my comment!

What the hell is this sh*t

One Parking Lot and One Razer Blade.
Luxury to Trash Heap in 4 minutes.

Razor*

Stinky007 is also pointless.

Is it just me or does ordering one in black and then tailing people down mountain roads at night with the headlights zipped to a super aggressive small size sound like great fun.

There goes my hope it was a production M1.

Somehow I doubt a production unit using a cloth body would be so easy to damage. They would consider such things as debris on the roads, the odd branch for a bush or tree, and just daily life.

The car would be sheathed in material that any Cop or Soldier would love to wear into action. Stuff that can take small arms fire, being stabbed with a knife or anything larger than a two penny nail, being set on fire, and being left in the sun for months or years on end. Such materials already exist. They are so tough you need power tools to cut it and steel will melt before it burns and is water and stain proof.

Really do need to study aircraft materials going back a few decades.

No hail or ding damage ever again. A body that weighs about 40 lbs, can change shape to met the needs of the driver, usually a sports car (I can’t see this on a family or luxury car - forget trucks). Want to change body colors, just pull a few - dozen snaps and pull on a new “suit”.

Real Active aerodynamics, Easy change body coloring and schemes, new design possibilities, and the most interesting Non-hybrid car technology, in a long time.

Gods, this cars concept is so cool and doable it is nearly insane. Interweave Kevlar ribbons, Synthetic polymer threading, Fine wiring mesh for firmness, basically the same formula as heavy body armor, Seal the cloth, even add fiber optics to almost turn the cars body into a video screen…

This is nuts! I love this idea. The best one BMW has had in years!

GINA …as in Gina from 40yr Old Virgin…HA, come to think of it, it does look like a ‘gina, especially with the hood-lips open! They should have made it in pink…

it’s cool….but, for what? once again johnnycanuck,”we need technology that changes the shape of your significant other at the touch of a button.” LOL HAHA good idea! LOL

Blakkarr,
I agree with you 100%.
Everyone bitches and moans that all modern cars are too heavy. But when BMW comes out with unique approach to fight weight problem, everybody is trying to put it down for weight savings. Go on, buy your SUV or a pick-up truck and shut the **** up about it being overweight, it dismal fuel economy and poor handling together with acceleration!

i dont care what anyone says, that car is the coolest thing ever.

I actually think this is really cool. The car itself to me, just plain and normal is a little ugly, not really thought out. But once you see the details that were put into it, and watch the movie you get a little bit different of an idea.

I looked at the photos, and I couldn’t help but notice one picture had the bonnet separated in the center, the other didn’t! That kinda took me by surprise, don’t see much like that very often… or at all. But I really like the “human characteristics” that they supposedly put into it. The thing I probably like the most is the bonnet when it “opens”, reminds me of a rib cage with the ridges in the fabric revealing the “heart”, or engine. The headlights probably surprised me the most. I don’t know how this would work if you got a large tree limb or something puncture it in a tightly stretched spot however.

This is the kind of original design I was looking for, not an idea that everyone is is copying (ala the 4 door coupe idea).

This is pretty f****** cool. I would venture to say no other automaker ever dreamt of anything like this. Definitely caught me off guard.

bimmer, im all for weight reduction like everyone else, but in this case, it is cool but not practical. even as an exercise it all just seems like its for fun with the intent to showboat BMW. theres no way there going to produce a car like this unless they figure how to make it impact safe. anyways this car is only practical for women who, might want to dress there cars up differently everyday. nah, it is cool tho.

Very interesting idea, front end and overall look is good but that arse-end is seriously a bit too big. Bangleeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

This goes out to the Audi bregade, as it is quite clear that they are the ones bitching about this car.
I wonder if you can read, but anyone can correct me if i am wrong. But isnt this a CONCEPT CAR rather than something intended for production.
I know by now some of you are going to jump in and say concepts often end up as production cars. But please can you guys be pragmatic, this whole project is a study to look at other ways to build cars. And as some of the posted comments highlighted, some of the cues from this concept are going to start apearing on other cars. So in a nutshell BMW leads and other follow by perfecting what they started.

It is quite funny how jelousy and envy always clouds a persons judgement, provided there is any.

Everything old is new again. Leave it to the Germans to reinvent the Hindenburg.

Stink7 007, I am a little disapointed in the fact that you started out to what looked like it was going to be a promising comment related to cars and totally skewed from it by stupid racial remarks.

Very innovative and sexy idea. Good job.

Vroom, how is this like the Hidenburg?

fabric stretched over a metal skeleton. very much the same concept as a blimp. heck it’s even the same color.