| X5 Meister |
07-06-2010 11:42 PM |
Pretty cool and all that, but strictly speaking this is CFRP and not straight CF. It's primary purpose is weight savings without a decease in safety over present material, but it is not significantly safer than the present material either. In other words if it was pure carbon fiber (a la F1 or a McLaren F1, SLR, etc) then you'd have the weight savings, extreme safety (to say the least), however at an incredible cost. What BMW is doing is jumping on the carbon fiber bandwagon as quickly as possible to use it more for marketing than anything else. I have yet to encounter a BMW sales person who called the M3 roof "carbon fiber reinforced plastic" rather than "carbon fiber."
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