I can only imagine how great crack cocaine must be. Seriously, it’s gotta be one hell of a drug. I know this much because the design team at BMW has obviously been smoking a shitload of it. Well, actually, it wasn’t BMW that designed the ZX-6 Concept, it was created by students at Turin-based IED design studio. Certainly not the geniuses that created Gina.

The students claim they drew inspiration from elements, music, and arts. I think they just smoked way too much crack cocaine. Look at this fucking thing. How am I going to drive it over a speed bump? Considering the fucking vehicle doesn’t even have wheels, I’m going to have to pass on the test drive. What a piece of shit. These students clearly ride the short bus to attend the prestigious Crack Cocaine University. Have any crack?

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BMW’s new concept car ‘GINA Light Visionary Model’ is remarkably innovative. It’s a shape-shifting car covered with seamless fabric stretched over a movable metal frame that allowing the driver to change the car’s form at will. The fabric is water resistant and durable. However, setting fire to it is a different story.

There are no plans for the fabric-enveloped car to hit production lines:

“It is in the nature of such visions that they do not necessarily claim to be suitable for series production,” company officials said in unveiling the car Tuesday. “Rather, they are intended to steer creativity and research into new directions.”

Perhaps this concept will inspire more alternative eco-friendly automobiles to hit production lines in the next few years. We’re all hoping that in the event of a crash, automobiles like Gina won’t leave you in a mangled heap of charred flesh and fragmented bones.
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Russia has been known to take their gadget advertising to the extreme, featuring everything from the gigantic to the dangerous. BMW has launched a new billboard in Moscow to showcase their M model which falls under both of these categories.

These new 65,000 square foot billboards feature full-sized vehicles mounted on the ad, complete with working lights. This makes it look like the cars are actually driving on the walls, somthing usually only done in cheesy action flicks. (more…)

No real specifics, unless you want to wade through the murky waters that are patents. What is known is that a patent (see link below) was filed by Sony and describes something that could be awesome, and it also has the possibility to fall flat on its face (or it could be you falling flat on your face if this doesn’t work right).

The present invention relates to a vehicle which can travel in the front and back direction and which can turn by right and left wheels rotated when a rider riding on a step-board moves the position of rider’s balance from the center of a vehicle base.

Not too technical of a description…. yet. The patent goes on to describe equations for operation, yada yada yada. Could Sony pull this off? It’s also possible that some other company might be working on something like this and that Sony would sell the rights to that someone else. As a last comment, doesn’t it sound sort of like that futuristic looking BMW skateboard (as pictured above)? Now take a look at the patent, please, be our guest. — Nik Gomez

Application No. 20060260862 [US Patent & Trademark Office]