BMW's Shape-Shifting Car with a Flexible Skin

True car lovers can get “car-crazy” as they run their fingers over the metal lines of certain classic cars. Tail fins, hood ornaments, headlights, chrome bumpers… the list of classic features is endless. But what if the metal skins of future cars vanished? And instead of metal fenders to caress, cars enthusiasts were left to touch exterior skins made of fabric?

Sounds crazy? Not to the designers at BMW who created, GINA - Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptation - a concept car that utilizes seamless fabric stretched over a moveable metal frame that even allows the driver to change its shape at will.