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Design Study: BMW Lovos Concept

K keshy
Posted onSep 29, 2009 at 3:44 PM

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A design study not by BMW but by a certain 24-year old Pforzheim University graduate by the name of Anne Forschner. She certainly has us wishing we took up automotive design back in university as her recent design has taken the limits of car design to a whole new, animalistic level, proving along the way that car design can be more than just what we’re used to. Dubbed the BMW Lovos Concept, the car can either look like a frightened porcupine or a very sleek fish thingy.

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The entire exterior of the Lovos – which stands for Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity – is constructed from just one fully exchangeable part that recurs 260 times. Each movable piece is covered in solar photovoltaic cells and can hinge onto a substructure underneath to follow the sun or act as individual air-brakes. No information is available on the engineering side of the car but I guess it’s safe to assume the concept would be electric powered.

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Check out the concept in the gallery below and the rest of the story at cardesign.ru.

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Source: AutoBlog

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    masao
  • Sep 29, 2009
nice concept. but alas, just a concept.
until they figure out how hard it will be to clean the car (imagine a day at the dirt track) i dont think anyone without a contract with the car washing company would be compelled with this design.

ii. what will happen in the event of a crash? where will all the little pieces of metals fly to? poor grandma crossing the road will need super-saiya skills to dodge them all!

iii. super high rish of mechanical failure on all those little moving parts. getting them to operate is one thing, but getting them to operate within specs after years of use is doubtful. imagine the car leaning to the left because some of the metal fins jammed while you were cruising at 100mph.
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    yams
  • Sep 29, 2009
conceptually it's brilliant. look wise... it's creepy (anything that loosely resembles a snake or porcupine will surely scare prey away). not aesthetically pleasing if you ask me.
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    pokemon
  • Sep 29, 2009
this is not the bmw, gals wishing to be in for...ha ha ha!
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    netmatrix
  • Sep 30, 2009
Did anyone remember the other concept that was a BMW covered with fabric as the skin of the vehicle? This is another one of those artsy cars. But if you ask me, i like it very much. It actually speaks volumes to me on how the spoiler we loved so much would be deemed obsolete with this.

Think dynamic aerodynamics. While most cars only benefit from single settings from wings and spoilers. I believe this one would allow one to sculpt air around the car to make the car work better. Think fish tail and fins as rudder, think fish side fins as sails that help push the car side more readily with air rather than tires.

The possibility are endless. Of course the mechanicals to make it work would be horrific for engineers. But to me this design is very applicable for track racing cars. For production cars maybe the panels would be bigger and all the gaps are covered and not exposed.

All in all, this is much more viable than those multi level auto camber adjusting wheels featured here sometime back.
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