Car with inflatable roof

Frank M. Rinderknecht, founder and head of the Swiss company Rinspeed AG, is something like the rarity of the Motor Show in Geneva. Every year he shows at the Spring Fair in the automotive industry, vehicles which differ drastically from all other vehicles on. Floating cars, diving cars, a model with built boat, eco-sports car in the science fiction theme or cars, which turned on a button, the entire body were there in the past decades to the presentation. At this year's Motor Show (3 to 13 March) the company is on the 33rd Views represented and shows a bizarre car again - the Rinspeed Bamboo.

The models for this project included the expert at first glance: The Mini Moke, the former designed mini-inventor Sir Alec Issigonis for the British Motor Corporation and its direct competitor Renault Mehari, who among the rich and beautiful on the Côte d'Azur yet now enjoys cult status.
But Bamboo has ostentatiously retro with nothing in mind. The view is rather directed towards the front - the drive shall also witness to this, as the construction materials used. So the name already suggest that many components of the interior are made of bamboo fibers. In addition, a general association with nature, by summer, to the south are made. Rinderknecht calls his car research "probably the only lifestyle vehicle with electric drive."

A 72-hp electric motor drives the nearly 1.1-ton, four-seat mobile. An electricity storage lithium-iron batteries are provided, the capacity of 16 kilowatt hours, is thus to specify a range of Rinspeed is assured of around 100 kilometers. On board, besides a folding bike is located so you can cover the famous last mile to the beach or the barbecue area and by muscle power.

To attract attention, Rinderknecht for Bamboo the New York artist James Rizzi won. The painted such as the inflatable roof of the study with his typical, colorful and detailed beach scene. On the roll bar of the car called a Rizzi-Bird is attached. The gag of the stylized spring animal, is changing its color can be. Rinderknecht imagines that is induced by the communication with other road users. Something like this: "A green bird mean about the passers' I have a mind to contact So where is the next party.?" "
Innenraumbeduftung with lavender, sea breeze or pine scent

The other meaning is intended to stimulate the Bamboo. Although a largely open car, the interior is to be traversed by various flavors depending on the choice of the occupants to enhance the well-being on board. The offer for the time being "captivating lavender scents, salty breezes beach or süßharziger pine forest smell," as it says on the website of Rinspeed.

Normally, the Rinspeed-Mobile funny gags in the otherwise rather humor-free environment of the auto show - and land sometime well as unique in any garage. In the case of Bamboo but dreams Rinspeed boss Rinderknecht of an industrial production - as well as conventionally-powered or electric version. The vehicle could be on his terms as a car in southern holiday destinations and as a shuttle car for summer cottages are used. The main thing it seems, where the car is to drive around one day, the sun.