The BMW LayerON Concept is a design developed for the future, with an outlook to 2015. Created by Turin IED students Aydar Nigmatullin, Patrick De Laet Moreno and Rocco Sergio D’Argento, and sponsored by BMW, the concept is built on basis of consumer habits, preferences and the desire for personalization.
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BMW has become the first automaker to begin use of Microsoft Surface. The automaker uses the Surface for product navigation, and surface actually makes the navigation a lot more cool with its touch and gesture interaction; which is quite sci-fi. So, basically BMW gives you a shot of technology before you buy a bimmer. As BB Gadgets puts it, “We’re almost in the future!”
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“No BMW, go for any other beast but not the BMW”, this is what my friend’s dad pressed when we decided to go for the automobile. The whole family was against the idea as the beemer has been getting some extremely bad press for quite sometime. Whenever it has come in the news, it has been with connection to some hit and run case or the other.
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Words from the mouth of a BMW Insider say that the company is working on a new eco-friendly supercar. Prone to be based on the M1 Homage Concept, the new supercar will be a showcase of the slicing edge technology developed by the company. BMW’s Efficient Dynamics program will be involved in a huge way to lower environmental impact. An aluminum spaceframe and carbon-fiber body panels are also likely to be used, in order to lower the weight of the automobile.
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Falling sales and decreasing profit margins have forced BMW to look away from making a production version of the Concept CS. Close on the heels of the news that BMW had seen a 63 percent drop in profits for the third quarter, came the announcement that the automaker wouldn’t follow plans for a production version on the CS. Unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show last year, the four-door luxury coupe was to mark the company’s venture into a new territory.
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