2011 BMW 5-Series F10 Sport Concept Design by Lumma Design, TopCar, and Cardi

2011 BMW 5-Series F10 Sport Concept Design

2011 F10 BMW 5-Series plans by Lumma Design, TopCar, and Cardi. The brand-new 2011 BMW 5-Series hasn't even made its motor show debut yet, but tuners are already actively working on their plans to present an array of performance and cosmetic goodies for the Bavarian automaker's premium sedan. German and Russian tuning houses are joining efforts to create bodykit and tuning packages for the F10 5-series.

2011 BMW 5-Series F10 Sport Concept Design

Full set of renderings inside. One of the first proposals comes from a trio of companies, Russia's TopCar and Cardi, and Germany's Lumma Design, that have joined forces to offer a new sport package for the Bimmer. TopCar and Cardi are the russian tuners and Lumma Design is the german tuner. Their renderings show an aggressive front end package including a new front bumper aggressively sculpted with huge air inlets, carbon fiber front lip, LED lighting and honeycomb grill.

2011 BMW 5-Series F10 Sport Concept Design

TopCar and Cardi will handle the design aspect of the project while Lumma Design will be responsible for the manufacturing of the kit as well as the performance upgrades. One version of the kit also features super wide wheel fenders and aggressive side skirts. Therear features a carbon fiber rear trunk spoiler, together with carbon fiber rear diffuser, quad exhaust pipes. Two types of wheeloptions will be available.

2011 BMW 5-Series F10 Sport Concept Design

Although the three tuners have not disclosed any specific details about the package, they did release a set of photoshoped images thatshow a new wide bodykit trimmed in carbon fiber that consists of new bumpers, fender extensions, side skirts and a boot lid spoiler.In addition, the tuners previewed three different alloy wheel designs for the 2011 5-Series.

2011 BMW 5-Series F10 Sport Concept Design

This custom F10 5-series is expected to debut in April 2010, along with details of the full performance tuning package.

BMW LOVOS (Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity) Concept Car Design by Anne Forschne

BMW LOVOS Concept Car

The BMW Lovos ("Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity") Concept is a design study by Anne Forschner that showcases an original approach to car design. It is based on fundamental questions: "How many parts do we use to build the exterior of vehicle? How would a car look like, if it was build by just one (recurring) piece?"

The result of an experimental research is a vehicle that is made by 260 identical, exchangeable pieces which are fixed with a hinge on a substructure.

The individual pieces are movable, which allows the surface of the vehicle to be closed - like the scales of a fish – or opened to the environment. These pieces work like airbrakes and are also photovoltaic, following the movement of the sun when the vehicle is stationary. The pieces of the covered wheels are also functional: as soon as the vehicle starts driving, 12 pieces per wheel change their formation and move inside, just like a turbine. The interior is soft and warm and represents a contrast to the mechanical and technical exterior.

The project is based on a philosophical idea, which asks critical questions about the design, construction and use of road vehicles, as we know them today.

As Anne Forschner explains "Contrasts, emotion and provocation are the main themes of the design." "The world we live in is increasingly complex and we move within multifaceted social structures, hardly noticing that we perhaps lack an overview over how products and services influence and overwhelm us.

"We rarely question these structures and continue to live and consume habitually. The car represents this world in the form of a physical object." Lovos aims to oppose and question the familiar process of designing, building, purchasing and driving cars. The project is a symbol for the Life Of Voluntary Simplicity and is an object that seeks to provoke the viewer to sidestep his or her embrace of pleasant conformity.

About the Designer

Anne Forschner is a 24 year old german student who has just finished her 7 Semester Transportation Design Course at Pforzheim University. For her final Project she got sponsored by BMW in Munich and graduated with a Bachelor degree in July 2009.Before and during her studies she was able to complete several Internships with Mercedes-Benz.