RE: Everytimer creates 1 Series-based ETA 02

[poo at Paul's]

Dermot O'Logical said:

Fibreglass?

Are we back in the 1970's?

Clearly, as they refer to the fibreglass being over the chassis.

I presume they mean the Stveie wonder designed fibreglass panels are stuck onto the old bodyshell, (by Ray Charles).

€70k..... hilarious

[BFleming]

There's a promo video here if anyone can bring themselves to watch it.
https://www.autobild.de/videos/video-eta-02-cabrio...

[Venturist]

Dermot O'Logical said:

Fibreglass?

Are we back in the 1970's?

Absolutely nothing wrong with fibreglass as a material.
If you’re thinking it should be carbon fibre, a lot of aftermarket body panel stuff is carbon purely because the customer wants it to be, not for any engineering reason. Cost to benefit ratio makes it overkill for the majority of applications. Mostly it’s for marketing reasons. Some OEM optional carbon parts are heavier than the original panel.

[Ilovejapcrap]

BFleming said:

There's a promo video here if anyone can bring themselves to watch it.
https://www.autobild.de/videos/video-eta-02-cabrio...

Interesting to watch the scanning devise is clever.

Do they cut some of the fibreglass grill out ? If not how does it get air to cool

[Sidney Smut]

£70,000 for that tat???? Jesus H Corbet that is one minging car!!

[ChawenHalo]

Pffwaaaw. Sexy sexy thing. Big want for that plaything. Wish BMW would give us a couple of back to basics retro models like that. Sod legislation and electric power steering. Hope it works for the company.

[ChawenHalo]

Venturist said:

Dermot O'Logical said:

Fibreglass?

Are we back in the 1970's?

Absolutely nothing wrong with fibreglass as a material.
If you’re thinking it should be carbon fibre, a lot of aftermarket body panel stuff is carbon purely because the customer wants it to be, not for any engineering reason. Cost to benefit ratio makes it overkill for the majority of applications. Mostly it’s for marketing reasons. Some OEM optional carbon parts are heavier than the original panel.

About time somebody said it. THANK YOU! CF is useful in load bearing stress components. As bodywork... pointless.
Back to this car it looks like they've heavily cut into the structure which is a bit scary, I thought this was just a skin over job. Going for such a true retro style, I guess it was necessary. IMO a "reinterpretation" 2002 for a lot les £ would have been fine with me.

[ChawenHalo]

Pffwaaaw. Sexy sexy thing. Big want for that plaything. Wish BMW would give us a couple of back to basics retro models like that. Sod legislation and electric power steering. Hope it works for the company.