See those little wrinkles on the door?  That ain’t a crappy paint job.  This is a living, breathing BMW concept car (i.e. not just some cracked-out artist’s rendition) with an exterior made completely of fabric.  To call it cloth would be a misnomer as it’s an absurdly advanced polymer compound.  But you could feasibly make a skintight shirt out of it and prowl the boardwalk in Newport looking for a sugar mama.

The GINA LIGHT is a roadster concept on which the usual body sheet metal found on production vehicles such as bonnet, side panels and doors have been all replaced with a special, flexible, highly durable and extremely expansion-resistant fabric material that stretches across a metal wire structure.

A number of elements of the substructure are actually movable and the driver can shift them by means of electric and electric-hydraulic controls resulting to a change the shape of the outer skin. For example, when the headlights are not active they are hidden under the special fabric cover. As soon as the driver turns on the lights, the contour of the front ends changes revealing the twin-headlights –just like a human being opens his eyes.

Check out this link (where the above text was ripped) to see more pictures.  But if you want to cut straight to the chase and stave off the accusations of rampant LSD usage at P+P, check out the below video.  Oh it’s real, Jerry!  And Skynet is soon to follow…

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