It has been announced that BMW’s latest concept is a Cloth Car called the Gina. Instead of a metal or plastic body the GINA Light Visionary Model, drapes a flexible fabric material over a moveable wire mesh frame.

With this car you will not have to lift the hood to get a look at the engine because it opens from the centre. It’s said that even the seats and the dashboard can be customized under their smooth surfaces to fit the desires of the occupants. BMW claims that there are practical aspects to the design as well. They say that the polyurethane-coated Lycra is significantly lighter than more rigid material that is traditionally used for an automobile body which requires less energy to produce it while reducing the overall weight of the car and making it more fuel-efficient.

Now GINA will not be coming to showrooms anytime soon, but BMW hopes that the overall design philosophy will rub off on some of its future models.

But you can see GINA in the flesh at the BMW museum in Munich, Germany.

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