Bangle up to his old tricks again - some nice touches...
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:19 pm
by e30topless
that looks great
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:25 pm
by projectmick
Bangle is an idiot.........
One tear and its a whole new "body" needed (which from bmw would not be cheap!).
At 60mph it would be like an umberella in the wind.
And i would like to know what would happen if you crashed it.
Looks cool though.
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:42 pm
by stuartgallafant
thats amazing! Bangle is a legend!!
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:44 am
by MtechMart
projectmick wrote:Bangle is an idiot.........
One tear and its a whole new "body" needed (which from bmw would not be cheap!).
At 60mph it would be like an umberella in the wind.
And i would like to know what would happen if you crashed it.
Looks cool though.
Don't know if you're being sarcastic or not but it's only a design study.
To inform them of how to shape and build future cars-perhaps when the right material does come along they can do this.
Carbon fibre bodies are not a million miles from this process- they're just baked to set hard after.
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:53 am
by magoose
That is pretty impresive, beats having to think about welding change the skin in 2 hours and it winks
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:51 am
by anisotropy
Yeah steel like -its so 90s
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:28 am
by AlexBaur325
....and carbon fibre is sooooooooooooo Y2K
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:09 pm
by Morat
That's fantastic - but is the cover machine washable?
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:56 pm
by AlexBaur325
only by hand, and you cant dry clean it ;)
Re: BMW's new fabric car...
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:35 pm
by Pal318is
I heard you gota use a special type of Persil on it
In all seriousness, i think it looks awesome..at least the chaps a BMW HQ are thinking ahead...