Everyone in the auto industry is trying to capitalize on skyrocketing SUV sales, from legacy marques like Ford (which is essentially ditching sedans altogether) to longtime luxury holdouts like Lamborghini, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, even Ferrari. The result is it’s harder than ever to stand out from the crowd. So what has BMW done? It made an SUV you can hardly see.
At next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW will display a one-off version of the forthcoming third-generation X6 SUV that’s been fully coated in Vantablack paint, in which carbon nanotubes are used to create one of the darkest substances on Earth.
BMW tapped Surrey NanoSystems, the company that stumbled onto Vantablack a few years ago,…