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FEATURE - BMW lackiert neues X6-Coupe mit schwärzester Farbe
Ferrari Press Agency
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28/08/2019
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Luxury German car maker BMW has gone over to the dark side by releasing released a version of its X6 coupe´, spray-painted with "the world's blackest black" pigment that absorbs over 99 per cent of light.BMW says the VBX6, as it is being called, is the "first and only vehicle in the world" to feature the coating, which removes reflections almost entirely.Exclusive rights to the original pigment, called Vantablack, are controversially owned by artist Anish Kapoor.But the coating on the BMW, called Vantablack VBx2 , is a slightly different material, with pigment suspended in a carrier solution that allows it to be sprayed onto larger areas.The process was developed by UK company Surrey NanoSystems, which collaborated with creative agency Levitation 29 to coat the latest four wheel drive coupé with a sprayable version of the pigment.Its ability to absorb over 99 per cent of light causes the human eye to perceive Vantablack in both its forms as two-dimensional, interpreted by the brain as similar to staring into a "hole" or "void".Coated in the blackest shade in the world, the BMW VBX6 appears to lose its three-dimensional shape, including most of the car's defining features like its distinctive twin headlights and kidney grille.
OPS: The BMW VBX6
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