Soft skin BMW

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Silver |
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The GINA, A car covered in cloth instead of metals. There’s a movie of this at the site I found it on, the car winks at you at the end of the video.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1075-bmws-fascinating-gina-light-visionary-model-design-study





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11 Responses to “Soft skin BMW”

  1. ohmybob on June 14th, 2008 9:02 pm

    Dear fuck that’s creepy.

  2. mgear on June 14th, 2008 9:16 pm

    You think you’re creeped out now? Wait till you see crash-test videos of this thing crumpling in and then rebounding like it’s made of rubber! 2008 Bumper Cars?

  3. TheMustardMan on June 14th, 2008 10:01 pm

    Thats actually pretty cool.

  4. Gunface01 on June 14th, 2008 10:55 pm

    Mmmm, photoshop.

  5. The Lawnmower on June 14th, 2008 11:23 pm

    1) It doesn’t look very good. I car with wrinkles when you open the door does not look cool.

    2) Can imagine how easily it would be damaged, and expensive it would be to have it repaired?

  6. natedog on June 14th, 2008 11:29 pm

    whoever buys this will not be concerned with how much repairs are. the insurance is prolly more than your parent’s mortgage payment

  7. storminator on June 15th, 2008 12:20 am

    Wrinkling cars?? Yikes. I am a journeyman auto body man and painter. This looks like BIG trouble to me. If it fixes itself like “Christine”, the I like it…

    however, my genetalia is much too large to ever own a BMer. LOL

  8. Stolid on June 15th, 2008 1:31 am

    You must be effin kidding me.. iI went to the website… watched the video…

    I have seen sports cars keyed just for being sports cars… who would buy this and park it some place other than their security-patrolled house? Cloth car? Really? Who wouldn’t knife this car? If you can afford it, you better be able to re-skin it weekly!!!

  9. AlecDalek on June 15th, 2008 9:11 am

    If only they put all this engineering into the actual cars they sell to all the pathetic wannabes that still think BMW is actually a status symbol.

  10. mgear on June 15th, 2008 10:45 am

    @lawnmower: One of the design goals of this car was to reduce the cost of repairs incurred in low-speed-ish accidents through easily-replaceable struts under the canvas, and I bet the canvas can just be patched like a pool liner if it ever tore (tho it’s probably near-bulletproof already).

    Think of it, no body panels to get permanently dented in, no fiberglass splintering off everywhere, no twisted frames… it’s a bodyshop’s worst nightmare!

  11. rattybad on June 15th, 2008 3:37 pm

    Who cares if it doesn’t look cool when you open the doors? Are people so insecure that they’ll submit to being judged by others, mostly people they don’t even know, because their sweet car looks a little bit funny during the five seconds it takes to get in and out of it?

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