Swiss automative visionary Frank M. Rinderknecht, head of Rinspeed, in collaboration with experts from Bayer MaterialScience AG created this cool concept car eXasis: a drivable glass-car with transparent high-tech plastic and a yellow trim. Built with a completely transparent body.
It has been shown for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2007. 40 years ago, Bayer presented the first "all-plastic car" at the K67 Plastics Fair in Germany (1967).
Creator Frank M. Rinderknecht about the 'Makrolon polycarbonate plastic': "In this ethereal transparency, the true spirit of the eXasis becomes visible. An abstract idea becomes material, visions become a tangible car. Yet the eXasis still doesn't seem to have quite arrived in our material world."
If you indeed 'literally want to be seen', Rinspeed's translucent hightech concept-car eXasis is the perfect vehicle for you…!
Other exciting concept cars by Frank M. Rinderknecht can be found on Rinspeed.com
I’m relatively sure that this is the way our cars will look in a not so distant future where energy gets increasingly scarce. This kind of weight saving construction, perhaps in combination with a fuel having it’s origin in a renewable source, is where the development should go in the automobile industry, hopefully sooner than later.