BMW GINA Light Visionary Model has heard the community, through a video posted on the BMW Museum in Munich last week has finally been revealed, and the futuristic design study shows how BMW designers think outside the box when it comes to the ingredients that make up the car and also how the car relates with the driver. GINA stands for "Geometry and Functions in 'N' Adaptation ', which basically means that designers from both BMW and BMW Group DesignworksUSA allowed to throw away the rule book. This is most obvious in the outer shell GINA Light Visionary Model, which is made entirely of textile fabric pulled taut around a frame of metal wire and carbon fiber. Framework car is controlled by electro-hydraulic devices and can actually move and change shape under the fabric skin. For example, the concept can be affected by light or concealed by the skin of a car such as blinking eyes, and the hood opens from the center as part of the fabric to expose the engine. This idea extends into the interior, where BMW designers have made visible only instrument needed at any given time, while the remaining time the same fabric interior "blinks" them out of sight. The car itself looks somewhat like a Z4 Roadster, though after viewing the extensive gallery of high res images below, you will be amazed how much the outer skin looks like normal sheetmetal. Until, that is, you will see how the doors open. They are raised in semi-scissors and because there are no exposed hinges, the fabric artfully binds as the door opened. While the design GINA Light Visionary Model is very Bangle-esque with concave and convex surfaces intermingling everywhere you look, look right and natural here. This car is very much a concept, meant more to inspire BMW's own designers and engineers rather than stimulate the community, but now we are very excited about the shape-Changin, fabric-covered car.autoblog
