Here at Pli we love lightweight designs so when I found BMW’s GINA Light Visionary Model, fabric skinned, concept car on Core77 last week I just sat there in awe. I have always admired BMW’s design department for coming up with innovative and challenging concepts, but also the way BMW aren’t afraid to translate them into production. Unlike GM for example, who bring out some great concepts but are still chucking 1970’s mechanics into their current offerings. Anyway I digress, the reason I posted the GINA concept is its the way it uses the lightweight fabrics flexible properties and an articulated space-frame to give the car life-like expression that could not be achieved out of convention metal or even plastic skins panels. The video below shows the concepts various party pieces in action, my favorite is the headlamps (2:20). Hopefully it won’t be to long before we something similar on the road.

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