Trends 
Newsletter 
Trend Reports 
Presentations 
Tools 
Add a Trend 
About 
POPEYE
Transparent Concept Car - Rinspeed Exasis (GALLERY)
[Edit]
[Edit]
This car is nothing to hide. The Exasis car built for Rinspeed company’s 30th anniversary by the Swiss engineering company “Esoro”, and will be shown to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show (March 8-18, 2007).
"The "eXasis" is powered by an extremely lightweight, 150 bhp Weber engine driven by CO2-emission-reducing bioethanol. In view of the fact that the car weighs only 750 kg because of its lightweight plastic construction, one horsepower has to shift only 5 kg – and that is about the same as a very nippy Porsche. The outer Makrolon® shell, molded by the Swiss firm Mecaplex and coated with a tinge of yellow by the German hard coatings specialist, KRD, reveals the vehicle's load-bearing aluminum chassis. The chassis looks as if it has been cut from a solid piece of material, and in fact the bulkheads are. Despite this, the entire construction exudes a sense of lightness like bamboo, underlined by a Lesonal chrome effect finish based on Bayer MaterialScience's Desmodur® and Desmophen®. To finish the surfaces of the knobs and levers, the Bayer experts came up with a special soft-feel coating based on waterborne binders - their sole aim being to pamper the eyes and hands of the driver.
Despite the attractive sweeping contours that blend smoothly into the car's transparency, the eXasis is ‘edgy’ and definitely has a character of its own. But everybody who has the pleasure of driving it is agreed on one thing: glancing down through the transparent floor while the car is moving gives a very special kind of thrill."
(autoblog)
 |
 |
 |  |  |
Read More: rinspeed Via: autoblog
 |
|
 |
 |
