Sunday, February 14, 2016

Build-a-car workshop?

      There is a new car company in the country, and they are taking a whole new spin on the way we purchase and build the cars today.  The name of this company is Local Motors and they are here to start a revolution.  The design for their first car was selected from a contest of online designers, and the buyers actually build the cars themselves.  What this allows for Local Motors to do is to take pre-existing and already certified materials for the drive train like an engine and transmission from a corvette, and put them into their cars and designate them as "kit cars".  This loophole drastically cuts the costs of making an entire new car in such a restrictive environment as the automotive industry and the EPA.

     Their first car is called the rally fighter, and it is a beauty.  It is modeled sightly after a P-51 mustang, from the high, arching cockpit like drivers stadium, to the rounded hood just like the front end of the plane,  It also has the power and prowess to match the plane as well.  It dominates anything off road, just like the mustang dominated the skies late in WWII.  The exhaust exits the Rally Fighter in the same way as the P-51 does, Just in front of the driver along the side of the fuselage or corner panel (whatever you want to call it).  Both sport massive engines respectively.  The Rally Fighter has a massive V8 from a corvette.  The P-51 had a V12, both engines have one thing in common, they both power the rest of the vehicle to the top of their packs of their times.

      With a body made entirely out of fiberglass in-house, local motors looks to be settling into the automotive game very well.  After your two weekends of building the car with Local Motors, the car is yours and the world is at your disposal.  Or so it may seem that way with this much power capable to go so many different places under your right foot.

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