That. Is >Awesome! Now I want to install a 20 Gal. Vape tank and roll licorice scented coal on all those diesels!
Found it on a different site: bicycle helmet on wheels. And look who the manufacturer is!
It looks as if it was designed to be easy to manufacture from flat parts using obvious fasteners.
Well, when a HMMWV (Humvee) and a Mercedes G-Wagen love each other Very Much……….
It’s a pixalated 8-bit design. Odd the wheels aren’t square.
I’d call it Soviet utilitarian.
I kind of like it, I could see a mod culture growing up around individualizing them.
It looks exactly like I used to draw every car when I was four years old.
This is the car I used to draw in kindergarten.
What he said, along with MacTech’s observation above. The stats at the link are imposing. 660 some odd horsepower. I’d be interested to see it do some raid rallying, like whatever they call Paris-Dakar now.
this is the embodiment of “has the aerodynamics of a brick”, well, maybe a cinder block…
in a way it kind of reminds me of a throwaway line in the old F-18 Hornet flight simulator game manual, where it was describing the different aircraft you would encounter, for the F-4 Phantom it was described as "this aircraft embodies the philosophy of ‘given enough thrust, even a brick can fly’ "
That page in the OP has links to earlier vehicles made by Bollinger. This one looks like they used an Erector Set to model the body.
Utilitarian use and Brutalist style.
I like EVs and I kinda like the no-frills look. I’m not in the market for a new vehicle, but when the lease is up on my Bolt I may look at one of these.
Looking at the company website, I don’t think the SUV is an earlier vehicle. Instead, I think both are planned.
BTW, I wonder how either vehicle would perform in a crash test.
Exactly what I was thinking.
“The J79 turbojet produces enough thrust to make a brick fly. The F-4 Phantom requires two.”
The Erector Set vehicle is an earlier version of the SUV, not of the pickup. Sorry I didn’t make that clear. The pickup didn’t change a huge amount from the earlier version, at least on the outside.
I should also point out that the pickup and SUV are, underneath, the same vehicle. The chassis, battery, and motors are likely the exact same. It’s just the sheet metal on top that differs. This model of making EVs is going to be common. OK, it’s already fairly common, but even more so for EVs. I understand that Volkswagen (at least I think it’s them) is planning to make about 20 very different cars that way.
I think you’re thinking of the Volkswagen I.D. Series and the MEB platform.