Car like IKEA? Meet OX!
True, it is not built by IKEA, but idea is the same - cheap car, easy to built, easy to repair and what is really cool, it can be transported in a box... Just like IKEA table or wardrobe. It aims for countries, where for normal people is hard to have a car and it is too far to nearest service.
Front of the Ox Car [http://www.trucktrend.com]
And who designed it? Now sit down, it was Gordon Murray. Yes, this Murray, who designed fastest car of nineties McLaren F1.
Car starts his journey in Great Britain, where a team of mechanics prepare the basic components within six hours. Then it is send in shipping container, in which is due practice package six pieces! Acording the manufacturer, three experienced people have to handle the car out of the box and assemble it for 12 hours.
The car is powered by diesel four-cylinder 2.2-liter and 100 hp performance. Thanks to the clear height of 25 cm (comparable with offroad rough terrain cars), it will not have a problem even with bigger obstacles. The bucket can be loaded almost two tons of cargo. They come here three Euro pallets or eight barrels with a capacity of 200 liters of liquid. Car can seat up to 13 people.
Sir Torquil Norman must now get funding to start up the production and distribution of car Ox. Gordon Murray to participate in the project evaluated positively.
Otherwise it will end like this:
I like it.
I'd buy one if it were cheap enough.
By "cheap enough" I mean 1/10 what today's 'cheap' cars cost in the US.
Consider...a Billion dollars worth of computer memory (nineteen fifties price) , say...a gigabyte. Is basicly free today. In the eighties I bought my first hard drive. It was ten megabytes and it cost twenty five hundred dollars. Today I can get a fifty gigabyte (fifty thousand times as much) for free in the cloud. Why has the price of hi tech gone down but the price of cars (and houses) gone up?
Nice thoughts, but I think it is because if you build a house, or buy, you will use it till death or at least ten years. But they want you to buy electronic asap because in two years it is piece of history. How long do you have cell-phone, computer? And if more than 5 years, it is really ancient (and you are lucky it is still working).
I used XP until they pried it from my cold hands. They quite supporting XP so I had to let it go. I used a Nokia Brick (it had buttons) until Cingular was bought out and no one supported it any longer. I have socks older than five years. If it ain't broke..dont' fix it.
Nice write up. Cool enough little truck thingy. Is it 4x4?
Thank you.
Nope, just front wheels, but they claimed that it is ready for rough terrain.
JUST frontwheel drive? that's odd.
do you have a price?
I've pushed through some fairly deep snow in a front wheel drive car so yeah it would probably do alright.