BMW Vision Efficient - Dynamics Concept

Bayerische Motoren Werke's engineering prowess is long established, as is its well-worn rep as purveyors of 'ultimate driving machines.' With its EfficientDynamics program, BMW is drawing from its considerable expertise in an try to continue to develop engaging, sports-themed cars while at the same instance improving the efficiency of its vehicles through the ingest of new technologies.

The BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept is designed and billed as the eventual countenance of BMW's aborning strategy. The Vision features seemingly every high-tech, lightweight, and aerodynamic gimmick the company has developed in an all-out try to improve efficiency. And of course, BMW also says the Vision is designed to have an exhilarating driving experience. The end result is a lightweight, 2+2 coupe powered by a plug-in organism drivetrain that BMW says develops a amount production of 356 horsepower.

One look at the Vision and its country BMW has created a vehicle that goes way beyond today's hybrid. Case it point, the exterior, which employs modern layering technology to layer the different pieces of the Vision's bodywork over each other. The impact smooths discover joints and seams and help to turn the number of coverall components. The wild bits and pieces jutting off the automobile are every there for a reason. At the front, the A-pillars are designed to guide air around the greenhouse where a wrap-around spoiler, fin-like side fenders and blade-like taillights every duct the airflow off the back of the automobile to in an try to further minimize turbulence and drag.

The aerodynamic tricks aren't limited to obvious body modifications, either. Underneath, the entire venter of the automobile is uncreased and flat to derogate drag. Up front, active louvers in the fascia close when the airflow to the radiator isn't needed, streamlining the face of the car. Below them, small ducts in the expose barrier direct expose through special passageways and discover into the face wheel wells, creating a high-velocity curtain of expose over the face wheels that BMW says aids stability.

The wheels themselves are also designed for mechanics with the profiles of the individualist spokes designed to revilement cleanly through the expose and, again, derogate disorder and drag. Despite their large size, the wheels are wrapped in 195/55 narrow, low-profile tires to derogate actuation resistance. To keep the handling sporty, they're wrapped around 21-in. wheels that help give the tires a large contact patch, one that is longer than it is panoramic for bottom twine resistance. All told, the Vision slips through the expose with exclusive a 0.22 coefficient of drag, significantly better than the 2010 Toyota Prius' 0.25.