The Car in the Gray Lycra Suit

Cars can be so boring: they insist on retaining the same shape day after day, have little interest in fashionable clothing, and are woefully difficult to customize without the help of a professional and several thousand dollars. Enter the lycra-skinned GINA Light Visionary, BMW‘s newest concept car, which consists of a translucent fabric skin stretched over a four-paneled, reconfigurable aluminum frame. Six years in development, the two-seated roadster that made its public debut on Tuesday is, for BMW, “a whole new approach to automotive design.”