Antony Ingram July 13, 2011 Comment Now! BMW is aiming to become of the first manufacturers to begin high-volume production of carbon fiber car parts. The first part-carbon cars could be seen as ...

After more than ten years of intensive research, resulting in improvements to processes, materials, production machinery and tools, the BMW Group has today become the first and only car ...

The new BMW M5 Touring is a heavy ... a series of special M Performance Parts to choose from, although no amount of carbon fiber will be able to hide the car’s heft. One of the biggest pieces ...

Hexcel has already demonstrated that carbon fiber parts can make a car perform better. The BMW i3 shows that carbon fiber parts can be cheap enough for mass production. Toray's acquisitions also ...

So without further ado, join AllCarTech in taking a look at the five most pointless carbon fiber car accessories. 'Carbon fiber' vinyl sheets We have to start with a confession: Carbon fiber vinyl ...

Carbon fiber elements are also used in the roof to tie the two halves of the car together. BMW also took weight out of other parts of the car, employing a "gram strategy" like many automakers ...

As with the M Performance upgrades for the M5 Sedan, most of the upgrades are made from carbon fiber, but there are no mechanical enhancements, only M Performance tailpipe finishers constructed of ...

Lefevre keeps production intentionally low. He builds just one or two cars each year, and so far, only five customer cars ...

This BMW M4 has a carbon fiber front fascia that ... Unlike Vorsteiner's work with other BMWs where the exposed carbon fiber ...

BMW will be producing the first passenger car using significant amounts of ... General Motors partnered with Teijin of Japan to create carbon fiber parts; Teijin set up a tech center in Detroit ...

BMW certainly thinks we should be able to, as it not only still offers tons of accessories for older cars but its online ... and even add carbon fiber body parts. Making it even cooler is that ...

And it certainly does, with many manufacturers using the durable material for car parts, including hoods, roofs, door handles, and side mirrors. Outside of its good looks, carbon fiber is about ...