Posted on 06.12.2008 08:15 by Simona Filed under: BMW | concept cars | video | roadster | BMW GINA Light Visionary | Cars | Car News

BMW Group Design has initiated a discourse about the characteristics of future cars by developing the GINA Light Visionary Model, a car with Geometry and Functions In “N” Adaptions (GINA).

The two-seater roadster has an almost seamless outer skin, a flexible textile cover that stretches across a moveable substructure, and functions that are only revealed if and when they are needed.

The video includes various studio and detail shots of the GINA Light Visionary Model.

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BMW GINA Light Visionary - video originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 12 June 2008 08:15 EST.

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Posted on 06.10.2008 10:29 by Simona Filed under: BMW | concept cars | roadster | BMW GINA Light Visionary | Cars | Car Reviews | BMW

BMW revealed today the GINA Light Visionary Model, a new concept car that presents the characteristics that will affect the development of cars in future. It is therefore fundamentally different from concept cars, which reflect what is expected of them by implementing as many elements as possible in a future production model. In contrast, the GINA Light Visionary Model is a vision of future cars and serves as an object of research.

The GINA Light Visionary Model takes the sculptural design that has already been established by a number of production cars to a new, unparalleled conclusion. The car’s front and sides, including the doors, create one single uninterrupted, seamless whole that converges to form an optical as well as a structural unit.

The GINA Light Visionary Model has dispensed with the usual body elements found on production vehicles such as front apron, bonnet, side panels, doors, wheel arches, roof, trunk lid and rear deck. Instead, a new structure with a minimum amount of components has taken their place. A special, highly durable and extremely expansion-resistant fabric material stretches across a metal structure. This new material offers designers a significantly higher level of freedom of design and functionality.

The body consists of only four elements. The largest component extends from the front of the vehicle to the edge of the windscreen and down the sides to the rear edge of the doors. The large side panels start at the front where the rocker panels emerge and run across the rear wheel arches into the rear. The fourth component is the central rear deck element.

BMW GINA Light Visionary Model originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:29 EST.

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