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BMW's new fabric car...

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:06 pm
by MtechMart
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 8)

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 :mad:

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 :D

In all seriousness, i think it looks awesome..at least the chaps a BMW HQ are thinking ahead...

Re: BMW's new fabric car...

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:38 pm
by Niiick
Fabricated for a material world indeed.

Metal and composites are passé.

Re: BMW's new fabric car...

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:46 pm
by projectmick
Mtech mart - a little bit of sarcasm - I appriciate it wont go into production, and that the concept like I said at the end does look pretty cool.

Maybe one day they may be able to use it, but until they find a suitable material its pretty useless.

Re: BMW's new fabric car...

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:57 am
by Jesus325iTouring
Pah! This is nothing new,the Austin 7 had a fabric body of sorts back in the 1930's!

Re: BMW's new fabric car...

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:58 pm
by motorsport786
looks nice, but would be very hard to maintain!!