Assemble-it-yourself car kit

[Frank Lee]

The First Car You Can Build Yourself... in an Hour - Businessweek

Looks neat! Possibly a decent platform for a nice aeroshell...

[niky]

Thought it would be that. Heard about this a few weeks ago.

Here's the website:
OSVehicle - Open Source Vehicle | Introducing Tabby: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis.

Interesting platform for building things off of.

[whatmaycome14]

Cool! I want to build my own car!!

[bobdbilder]

This has been the most feared by all developed countries; anybody can build a car. It seem inevitable.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by bobdbilder

This has been the most feared by all developed countries; anybody can build a car. It seem inevitable.

That's why the bureaucrats enforce many features such as airbags, ABS brakes and whatever to become mandatory, thus making it more expensive to build a custom vehicle from scratch

[chumly]

How much?

[freebeard]

6000 Euros, ships in 2014. I'm not sure what that is in Bitcoin.

Open-source car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some of the earliest open-source cars include:
ANDRE cars, Inverter - an open source race car designed by Andre Brown (a former student of open source pioneer & RepRap founder Adrian Bowyer) in partnership with Reynard: design released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license
Rally Fighter from Local Motors: design released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license
SGT01 from Wikispeed
OScar - started in 1999, still in concept phase as of 2013.
OSVehicle - Tabby - Tabby is the first OSVehicle: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis.[1][2]
Riversimple Urban Car: The CAD models for the Riversimple Hyrban technology demonstrator have been released under a CC-BY-NC-SA[better source needed]
C,mm,n - Dutch electric car (2009)[3][4]
OSCav, an open-source compressed air vehicle
Open Source Green Vehicle project
Freedom EV
eCorolla, an electric vehicle conversion
LifeTrac tractor from Open Source Ecology
Some open-source vehicles, such as the PUUNK velomobile,[5] the Atomic Duck,[6] the Hypertrike,[7] and other open-source velomobile, and the Xtracycle, are technically not automobiles.

People have been building kit cars forever. What's new is crowd-sourcing standards to capture and amplify the individual effort. Well, that and the one-hour build time.

Originally Posted by OP

Looks neat! Possibly a decent platform for a nice aeroshell...

They make those scaled-down 911 and Lambo body kits to fit the Smart car. I picture a scaled-down Volkhart-Sagitta.

bobdbilder -- Edison2 address this with their 'local content' design.

Else one could just scale down the EMPI Sportster, it would make a great grocery-getter.

[wheelbender6]

If you build a three wheel vehicle, there are far fewer safety requirements to be met before licensing.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by wheelbender6

If you build a three wheel vehicle, there are far fewer safety requirements to be met before licensing.

Altough this open-source car is an interesting project, a 3-wheeler sounds more reasonable concerning this point. Nowadays it's almost impossible to legally register a kit-car where I'm living...

[sid]

I would think insurance (required in my state) would be a bigger hassle.