Frankfurt Motor Show of current year has been said to draw an unpredicted attention to fast luxurious and expensive cars. Few have thought about that because of the hard times we seem to be passing successfully. Anyway, here’s what drew our attention: BMW’s second since the EfficientDynamics concept and one of the utmost revisions of car design – the Lovos concept. “Lovos” is an abbreviation and means Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity. As it appears, BMW Lovos designer Anne Forschner, 24 years old, really has a point here.
Lifestyle of voluntary simplicity teaches us to slack off our consumer society habits and tries to revise what a car needs be to carry people and what people need on a trip of future. This revision has turned into an idea that I liked a lot – the entire body of the car is made out 260 identical pieces of solar photovoltaic cells, so that every single one of them can easily be removed if damaged and replaced with another one. They also turn around on their posts to track the sunlight and when the pieces are pushed up to make the BMW Lovos look like a mad bristling porcupine, solar photovoltaic cells work as an airbrake. The interior on the other hand is very calm and relaxing only so that the ride wouldn’t seem like a torture, but no excessive luxuries since we try to volunteer simplicity bringing in contrast, emotions and provocation, as Lovos author states.
Spiky Frankfurt Motor Show BMW Lovos concept
On September - 26 - 2009
