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Although the use of fabrics is interested I wonder if the fabric won't lead to a lot of unnecessary drag, especially after being worn out by rain, wind, grain and such.

Makes you wonder what the designers are penning right now as we look in amazement at this 'old' design.

Also, I'm curious as to what the designers think at this 'wow' reaction to their old designs and whether they stand there and think 'if only the public knew what we're designing and researching right now'.


BMW as a company never stand still, never are complacement, and are never satisfied with where they're at.. they always seem to be striving to go further, and it's amazing how much faith and confidence they have in their managerial decisions, their designers, engineers, and their overall business culture and brand philosophy.

Maybe Z8, not Z4. We can pretty much see how the Z4's going to look. Long and narrow grille in sharkfin fashion.



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Neu ist GINA allerdings nicht. Das Visionsmodell enstand schon lange vor den aktuellen Z4-Modellen, die zahlreiche Produktionstechniken der Vision übernommen haben. BMW nutzt lediglich die Gunst der Stunde und kombiniert deren Coming-Out mit der Eröffnung des neuen Museums.

BMW GINA is freaking 10 years old....
I KNEW I was right about the looks of the interior. It's looking like that because it's very old. That's the sole reason.

I was rather disappointed with the pics until I saw the video and the whole theory of the GINA. It is such a remarkable step forward, I am completely dumbstruck. I definitely never saw this coming in my lifetime.

The best part is that this concept/idea is so old, one can only imagine what kind of things they are working on as we speak.

y' am VERY sad, first the M1 hommage, georgeous car but not for production, second, gina concept ligth bla bla bla, supercool staff, incredible car, but not for production.
almost 15 years waiting the real bmw supercar,
y'am very sad........................

sorry for my english.

Hey klier, I can't understand that text you quoted, but does it say that the design of the GINA is 10 years old, or just that 10 years ago BMW thought up the idea of 'a vehicle with skin and movable body parts' ?

If the design itself is 10 years old, well then that's just amazingly scary to think that cars which are about to debut in a matter of months were influenced from a concept created 10 years ago. How long has Bangle been at BMW? surely this had to have been done after he arrived, and I find it difficult to see that he could have caused such a huge shift in the way BMW thinks about their vehicles in just a matter of a few years..

Bangle has been with BMW since the early 90s i believe..
i wonder, if the skin can be punctured or penetrated..from bangles explication it seems like the GINA has no sheet metal under the skin, is that correct?

This concept is at least 6 years old. Perhaps even few years older.
IMO the concept was made in 1999 - 2000, when Warming (GINA, Z4 & Mille Miglia 2006 designer) was in present in Munich. At the times his Z4 design was chosen to go into production. Therefore GINA is influenced by Z4 lines.

Bangle has been at BMW since 1992.


GINA philosophy is very important for BMW - and that's the Bangle's brilliance.

GINA = being innovative, being flexible, thinking out of the box, challenging dogmas.

Btw, another official GINA movie - this time more about GINA philosophy itself:

all i can say is ... WAW :|

IM IN LOVE WITH GINA!!!

The text here says that the Concept was created long before the ACTUAL Z4, who took several production processes of Gina. BMW only presented Gina now because of the opening of the Museum...


Absolutely incredible. This is a stunning Concept. I don't remember any Concept Car that impressed me as much as GINA, honestly.