Mobility Tech
Global Luxury. African Soul.
Panels that clip on like couture. A new car, in an afternoon.
Z-Panel takes the idea of an interchangeable wall panel and applies it to a car body. Precision-formed magnetic panels lock over doors, wings, bonnet and skirt — swap a finish, a texture or a heritage cloth band without a single litre of paint.
Fashion is temporary. Identity is forever.
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Fair price$1,850 · typical $1,850 across 3 comparable pieces in Mobility
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Change the car, not the paint.
Magnetic rails and hidden latches hold each panel flush — no adhesive, no respray, no paint damage.
Dress only the doors, only the skirt, or the entire body. Mix finishes for a two-tone car in an afternoon.
Matte, gloss, pearl, brushed gold and heritage-cloth-inlaid panels, all in the house palette.
Lift the panels and the original bodywork is untouched — resale value stays exactly where it was.
Views
Colourway
A single woven Bogolan mudcloth band along the lower edge — the house signature, never louder than the form.
Seven views · 3D sweep
1 / 2 · Z-VIBE Z-Panel™ — Change the car, not the paint.
Interactive 360 viewer. Left and right arrows rotate 15 degrees, hold Shift for 45, Page Up and Page Down turn a quarter, up and down arrows or plus and minus zoom, Home resets the view, Space toggles auto-rotation and F opens full screen.
Z-VIBE Z-Panel™ — Change the car, not the paint.
Z-View 360™
Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom to loupe level, switch on material inspection to read the weave, tune the lighting rig and compare two views side by side.
Zoom · 1.0×
Studio lighting
Colourway
Opens the fitting stage with this line already selected, using these exact frames.
Configurator
Factory obsidian — nothing swapped yet.
The range
How it works
01
Your model is scanned so every panel is cut to the millimetre.
02
Pick finishes panel by panel — one colour, two tones or a heritage band.
03
Rails go on once; panels change whenever the mood does.
Story behind the design
Sirablen mudcloth in cream & indigo, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff.
cream & indigo
ZB-SIRA-CRE-265
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a wolo bark tannin with iron-rich mud drawn from the Niger banks — the pattern is not printed on, it is drawn in mud and then the ground around it is lifted away.
The tape carries a broken line stepping across the ground cloth. In the Bamana reading, Sirablen is the road home — steadiness on a long journey. Z-Vibe keeps the motif at heritage scale rather than shrinking it into a logo pattern, so the hand of the maker stays legible on the finished piece.
Mudcloth is placed on construction points, never scattered as decoration: crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff, front placket. These are the lines the eye already follows on this silhouette, so the cloth reads as structure — an edge, a facing, a seam — and holds its meaning at three metres and at arm's length alike.
Each length is hand-turned and pick-stitched in silk thread, then pressed over a ham so the tape sits flat, not glued. Tape width and motif repeat are cut to the size band, so a petite run and an extended run carry the same proportion rather than the same measurement.
African heritage, global luxury, future design: the mudcloth is set against European finishing and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark. Nothing is erased on either side — the meeting is the design. Different Roots. One Human Story.
Care · Cold hand-wash or specialist clean only. Mud dye deepens with age; never bleach, and dry flat away from direct sun.
Each step below reflects work that actually exists for this piece. Refinement is a design process — it does not imply the piece is production-released.
Owner-approved design board intakeIn progress
Registered from the collection register entry; the full design board is still being filed.
Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete
Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ Z-Panel Cut (ZG-6327) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, radial claw ribs closing into a solid pivot disc, asymmetric anatomical last shaped to the natural toe splay, stack 22 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 4 mm drop, laced in heavy Bogolan rope lace, brass-crimped tips, diamond Z at the lateral wall, Z-VIBE at the medial wall. Tread, last and stack height were made unique to the shoe rather than shared across the register.
Bogolan signature verificationComplete
Mudcloth was confirmed as a construction detail (laces, panel, tongue or heel band) and not surface print, and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark was placed.
Z-Studio 4K refinement passNot yet run
No refinement output released yet — this page reads the approved board unretouched.
Seven-view studio captureNot yet run
No angle has been shot yet; all 7 views read the design board.
Questions
Available finishes
Heritage signature
A single woven Bogolan mudcloth band along the lower edge — the house signature, never louder than the form.
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