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BMW GINA concept

BMW Group Design has just revealed a revolutionary new concept car which utilizes a flexible textile cover to form its outer skin. Called the ‘GINA' Light Visionary Model - an acronym derived from the principle of Geometry and Functions In "N" (Infinite) Adaptions - the concept offers dramatically different solutions that affect the design and functionality of future cars. The almost seamless flexible textile cover that stretches across a moveable substructure has dispensed with the usual body elements found on production vehicles such as front apron, bonnet, side panels, doors, wheelarches, roof, trunk lid and rear deck.

VW GT Up heading for production

VW GT Up heading for production It looks like the Volkswagen Up GT – revealed as a concept at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show – is heading for production. We’ve just had the reveal of the VW Up 5-door, but now comes news that Volkswagen are planning to put the VW GT Up, revealed as a concept at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show in to production. According to Pistonheads, Volkswagen has now decided to green light the Up GT for production.

Aston Martin DBS from 'The Persuaders!' heads to auction

James Bond wasn't the only British fictional character associated with cars from Newport Pagnell, even though the MI6 agent did drive Aston Martins in a number of films. But James Bond films weren't the only medium in which Aston Martin cars appeared. If you watched the opening of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, you might have noticed one TV series not referenced in the opening show: "The Persuaders!" starring Roger Moore (a Bond actor himself) along with Tony Curtis.