Un rendu design et soigné pour la dernière concept-car du constructeur allemand Bmw. A noter l’importante avancée technologique qui leur a permis de placer sur la carrosserie, une toile de tissu tendue sur une structure rigide entièrement faite de métal et de carbone.
tu as oublié de mettre un smiley après la phrase:
A noter l’importante avancée technologique qui leur a permis de placer sur la carrosserie, une toile de tissu tendue sur une structure rigide entièrement faite de métal et de carbone.
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Honda a déjà lancé un concept-car avec une coque souple au touché mais en plus luminescente . Présentée en 2007 au salon Tokyo Motor Show, La Puyo, aux lignes très rondes , est recouverte d’un polymère de silicone souple qui lui permet d’absorber les chocs de collisions légères.
En fait ce polymère, qui recouvre aussi bien la carrosserie que l’intérieur de la voiture, est déjà utilisé aujourd’hui pour fabriquer des tapis de souris et des étuis d’ iPod…Comme quoi de la souris à la voiture….
Ca me rappelle la nouvelle batmobile un peu. Pas forcemment fan de l’effet drappé, mais les lignes sont sympas.
Jaime pas.
Et ça doit être impossible a réparer si ya de la mécanique qui brise.
ridicule
Aprés les rayures sur les carosseries en métal,
On va déchirer les carosseries pour se venger sur le mec qui te pique ta copine…
Je ne l’ai pas fait et je n’incite personne à le faire.
Mais est ce que les concepteurs ont songé aux agressions contre les innocentes voitures sans défense…
Enfin c’est juste un concept-car donc le contructeur n’a pas trop réfléchi pour ce qui est des agressions ou autres ( comme la réparation ), l’idée générale est plutôt l’esprit novateur de la matiére qui permet au designeur de s’exprimer autrement que sur une carrosserie dite " classique "
En tout cas j’aime beaucoup ce concept ça donne une autre vision de l’automobile… =)
Concept Car vraiment original qui apporte une vision sur la façon de concevoir le design d’un véhicule. Le design de la voiture change simplement lorsque les armatures se déplacent.
Sinon comme d’habitude cela reste un concept mais on ne sait jamais…
C’est bizarre quand les portières sont ouvertes mais vraiment une bonne idée pour le design de la voiture bravo !
Je sais pas si le type en parle, j’ai pas écouté avec le son, mais on peut remarquer qu’avec ces armatures qui se déplacent, l’aérodynamique pourrait varier avec la vitesse de la voiture, un peu à la manière de l’aileron des Porsche.
Et en plus, c’est joli!
Jamais déçu par BM qui a toujours eu beaucoup de goût en ce qui concerne le disign agressif de ses voitures, j’espère voir un jour ce requin sur roues nager sur nos routes!… qui sais peut-être dans un autre monde…
J’adore les posts où ya plus de contenu dans les commentaires que dans l’article !
Une épure maximale permettant un excès du style si propre à BMW depuis quelques années.
Cela fait de cette voiture une entité presque organique, adaptable à l’utilisateur, dont chaque mécanisme est voilé (c’est le cas de le dire) derrière la fibre synthétique.
C’est à mon sens une avancée stylistique et technologique, une qlliance de forme et de fonction que devrait suivre l’industrie automobile, à condition de faire passer les tests EuroNCAP en matière de sécurité et confort pour l’armature en carbone…
Auto/ DESIGNER ACCUSES BMW: THEY COPIED ME. THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE IN ROME IS INVESTIGATING
28-02-2009 11:52
« The ‘Gina’ concept car covering was patent protected »
Rome, 28 Feb. (Apcom) – The ‘Gina’ BMW is a prize-winning concept car, but the idea of using a fabric covering for the bodywork is now said to have been copied from an Italian. This is the subject of the lawsuit initiated by fashion designer Giuseppe Bianco, owner of a number of young fashion labels, and filed with the Rome Public Prosecutor a few days ago. Public Prosecutor Marcello Monteleone is believed to be assessing the case presented by lawyer Carlo Cirillo, which contains allegations of counterfeiting under articles 473 and 474 of the penal code and under the provisions of the so-called ‘industrial property code’, as defined in the law of 10 February 2005, number 30, article 127. Specifically, according to the lawsuit, Bianco designed an exclusive procedure in 2005 by which any covering material, from leather to fabric to more technical materials, could be applied to the external body of cars and other motor vehicles, « making the covering impermeable and resistant to atmospheric agents ». After registration of the patent, exhibition at the 2006 Bologna Motor show, and coverage on the Tg5 Italian TV channel, Bianco was confident, happy in the knowledge that he had invented something innovative. Then, in the middle of 2008 he discovered that BMW had presented a concept car with a fabric body: the Gina, acronym for ‘Geometry and functions in ‘n’ adaptions’. So Bianco felt that there was nothing for it but to assert his rights. The battle between this small inventor from Italy and the German colossus began last August, when lawyer Carlo Cirillo informed the legal offices of BMW that his client was the « owner of the rights following the filing of a formal application to register the patent for a fabric covering for motor vehicles » and warning the German company to « cease any activity in conflict with this ». After further contacts between lawyer Carlo Cirillo and the legal consultants from BMW’s patents office, and despite all the documentation presented in support of Bianco’s case, the Gina was exhibited at the museum in Munich and from 11 to 15 February of last year at the Salon Concept Car Hotel National des Invalides Plauce Vebaun, in Paris. As reported in the newspapers, at that event in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, the Gina won the award of ‘Grand prix du plus beau concept car de l’annèe 2008′. But Bianco was not willing to let matters lie. He made a video with his accusations and posted it on Youtube. The process involved in this work on the car and the application of the materials, as shown on the carbodydesign website, source BMW press office, is exactly the same as the one he designed. In his lawsuit, the designer also refers to a visit by a BMW manager to his stand at the Motorshow. Lawyers Carlo Cirillo and Pamela Baglivo, who presented his case with the collaboration of lawyer Micol Cupo Pagano, explain: « Our client hopes that this will throw light on the matter.” Lawyer Carlo Cirillo adds: « It is clear that if the judicial authorities recognize this as a violation of Mr. Bianco’s patent rights, we are looking at damage on a huge scale, taking into consideration the enormous publicity potential of the internet coverage used in handling this issue. So I hope that this will bring protection to the offended party, the small businessman, against a multinational company with great economic resources.”
Designer in battle against BMW for “Gina”
COVERING SYSTEM CONTESTED: CASE FILED AGAINST THE GERMAN CARMAKERS AT THE ROME PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE.
Source: Corriere della Sera 01/03/2009 – Michele Manno
Rome
It is certainly a strange case that has ended up on the desk of the Public Prosecutor in Rome.
You could almost say that the two contestants are the present situation and the future.
The present situation is represented by designer Giuseppe Bianco; the future by the well-known BMW car manufacturers.
Why future? Because BMW recently won an award in Paris for the most beautiful “Concept Car of 2008”.
The car has an unusual name: ”Gina”. And we know for a fact that, like Gina Lollobrigida and all other women, Gina loves elegant clothes. So much so that she has been called the “Light visionary model”.
She is a car that we will never actually see on the road, like all “concept cars” which, by definition, propose new ideas destined to take shape on the roads of everyday life some time in the near future. The idea is in the composition of the car body, consisting principally of an elasticized fabric stretched over the frame which can be modified at the touch of a button, depending on the driver’s tastes. So it is a fabric to suit all occasions, from a simple meal in a pizzeria to a Gala evening in Monte Carlo. It is a kind of travelling haute couture wardrobe.
But this is where the present, with its laws and regulations, impacts on “Gina’s” destiny. Fashion designer Giuseppe Bianco has initiated a case against BMW, alleging counterfeit and the violation of the industrial property law, claiming that it was he who, in 2005, invented the exclusive procedure by which it is possible to apply any type of covering (leather, fabric and technical materials) to the body of a car or motorbike, thus making “the coverings themselves impermeable and resistant to atmospheric agents”. Before turning to the justice system, in this case public prosecutor Marcello Monteleone, Giuseppe Bianco’s lawyers warned BMW not to continue any activities connected with the use of this process. But the car was still presented.
Whatever the truth of the matter – and legal battles over patents are usually complex – perhaps one day we will hear the verdict. It is up to the judiciary to decide who is right and who is wrong: but for once the case does not concern murder, disputes or violence, but the future of a car; and the prosecution and defence have to make a decision about “Gina”.
Du tissus?
Ça doit pas faire des enfants forts.