BMW's new fabric car...

[MtechMart]

Bangle up to his old tricks again - some nice touches...

[e30topless]

that looks great

[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.

[stuartgallafant]

thats amazing! Bangle is a legend!!

[MtechMart]

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.

[magoose]

That is pretty impresive, beats having to think about welding change the skin in 2 hours and it winks

[anisotropy]

Yeah steel like -its so 90s

[AlexBaur325]

....and carbon fibre is sooooooooooooo Y2K

[Morat]

That's fantastic - but is the cover machine washable?

[AlexBaur325]

only by hand, and you cant dry clean it ;)

[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...

[Niiick]

Fabricated for a material world indeed.

Metal and composites are passé.

[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.

[Jesus325iTouring]

Pah! This is nothing new,the Austin 7 had a fabric body of sorts back in the 1930's!

[motorsport786]

looks nice, but would be very hard to maintain!!