This original "glass" concept car will be unveiled by Rinspeed at the next Geneva Motor Show on March 2007.

The insect-like body and the floor pan consist of a transparent high-tech plastic with a tinge of pale yellow.

The “eXasis” has open wheels, a cigar-shaped body with fore and aft tandem seating, and has elements of the legendary Auto Union race cars from the first half of the last century combined with a modern Baja-1000 off-road vehicle.

The transparency “dematerializes” the car to a large extent. Behind the seemingly fading matter the spirit of the “eXasis” reveals itself.

The ideas, thoughts and imagination that were the basis of its development.

For Rinspeed boss Frank M. Rinderknecht the “eXasis” symbolizes this development process, a process that takes immaterial spirit and turns it into matter, transforms a mere vision into a concrete car: “And in all its transparency the “eXasis” still seems as if it hadn’t arrived fully yet in the material world.”

Technical features

The engine is a compact and two-cylinder 750-cc engine that delivers about 150 hp and that can run on bioethanol in order to reduce CO2 emissions.

Thanks to plastic lightweight construction the eXasis has a total weight of about 750 kg, with a Porsche-like weight-to-power ratio of 5 kg/hp.

Rinspeed eXasis - Technical Data

(Source: Rinspeed)