BMW Cloth car
 

Yup you read the title right..! According to the metro newspaper, BMW's latest concept is a cloth car that changes shape. This link is all I could find that explains it quite well.

Great idea but not too sure of the practicality of it..

Maria

Re: BMW Cloth car
 

very cool, and kudos to bmw for thinking outside the box again, but have you ever seen a fabric in 150mph winds? unless the material is taut enough to stop it flapping the drag would be horrific...

Re: BMW Cloth car
 

One car,one knife,one expensive disaster.

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Indeed.

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That's fantastic, almost organic with a skin covered skeleton. I agree with Northy, I think the trick will be perfecting the materials for use at speed. I wouldn't be suprised if we start to see fabrics used in parts, if not the entire body, soon. I can imagine the 'eyelid' style headlights and organic looking spoilers etc. being relatively easy to achieve. Exciting stuff!

Edit: The bit about speed, they were covering planes with fabric for yonks weren't they... hmmmm. I would imagine cost will be the biggest problem :-/

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Yeah, fabric could work, just as it did with aircraft for years - but that was doped to shrink-fit the framework and stiffen the fabric.

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Uber cool.

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Any serious benefits in power to weight ratio, or fuel economy??

Re: BMW Cloth car
 

it looks pretty damn cool, just the headlights if nothing else, it's like a modern version of popup headlights.