Some fascinating things I just read from Rinspeed.com about this wicked Rinspeed Concept Car:
The Rinspeed eXasis premiered at the 2007 Geneva Auto Show. To mark his company's 30th anniversary, Rinspeed Visionary Frank M. Rinderknecht debuted a drivable "glass" car with a completely transparent body and floor made of Makrolon®. Nearly all the Bayer MaterialScience business units were involved in the development of the concept car, providing products such as surface coatings and polyurethanes. - 150 Hp 2-cylinder Weber engine - Outer Makrolon® shell, molded by the Swiss firm Mecaplex - Special seats designed in cooperation with Recaro. Each seat consists of twelve transparent Makrolon® ribs – the same number as a human being has. The head restraint and armrests are made of transparent Technogel®. - Aluminized glass fiber material with a diamond-shape design on the wheel rims, trim, wishbones, fuel tank and headlamps - Custom-made spring and shock absorber units vertically in the front in the partition wall and horizontally at the rear - Pirelli 22-inch High-Performance P Zero, mounted on forged five-spoke rims by German wheel maker, AEZ. - Each of the touch-panels is made of a transparent CD/DVD Makrolon® blank that has been coated with electrically conductive Baytron® from H.C. Starck to trigger the switch functions. The "eXasis" is powered by an extremely lightweight, 150 bhp Weber engine driven by CO2-emission-reducing bioethanol. As the car weighs only 750 kg because of its lightweight plastic construction, each 1 hp has to move just 5 kg – and that is about the same as a Porsche 911. Everybody who has the pleasure of driving it agreed on one thing: glancing down through the transparent floor while the car is moving gives a very special kind of thrill… From: eXasis - Glass-free transparency
The Rinspeed eXasis premiered at the 2007 Geneva Auto Show. To mark his company's 30th anniversary, Rinspeed Visionary Frank M. Rinderknecht debuted a drivable "glass" car with a completely transparent body and floor made of Makrolon®. Nearly all the Bayer MaterialScience business units were involved in the development of the concept car, providing products such as surface coatings and polyurethanes.
The "eXasis" is powered by an extremely lightweight, 150 bhp Weber engine driven by CO2-emission-reducing bioethanol. As the car weighs only 750 kg because of its lightweight plastic construction, each 1 hp has to move just 5 kg – and that is about the same as a Porsche 911. Everybody who has the pleasure of driving it agreed on one thing: glancing down through the transparent floor while the car is moving gives a very special kind of thrill…
From: eXasis - Glass-free transparency
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