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The idea together having a manufacturing facility attached to the dealer that builds your car to order is certainly interesting.

Another company with an interesting idea is http://WWW.inrekor.com - flat pack composite chassis.

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I'm sure it will be very good when it's finished. I don't see much beyond the "hype" on his website though! They're a clever bunch, there's no doubt of that, but I don't see anything earth-shattering there. Their "i-stream" construction process where they put everything on the chassis so that it can just about drive around with no body on it, is (in my view) rather a step backwards. I think Morgan still build cars that way. Certainly my first little Reliant could "almost" be driven as a bare chassis! I'll be impressed if it gets 4 EuroNCAP stars. That's a tough order for a such a small car. Of course, it wil lbe 4 stars in the smallest vehicle class. Clearly if you ran it into an MPV that also had a 4 star rating, or a big saloon or 4x4 with 4 stars, there wouldn't be much left of it! People need to be made aware that "4 stars" doesn't mena the same in each vehicle category.

The inrekor concept sems to be very similar to something Lotus were trying to flog a few years ago. I think they called it V V A or something - variable vehicle architecture. It was basically the Elise aluminium tub where you got a set of standard extrusions and could cut them to different lengths before sticking them all together with standardised joining bits to make different sized cars. Not sure there's much of a future to it as so many things need to change depending on the function to which the car is put.

I see here there is quite a list of people taking part ! : Here

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