Local Motors is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 automobile

Automobile

An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...

 company founded by John "Jay" Rogers and Jeff Jones, bi-located in both Wareham, Massachusetts

Wareham, Massachusetts

Wareham is a town located in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 20,335, with an estimated 2008 population of 21,221....

 (founded) and Chandler, Arizona

Chandler, Arizona

-Demographics:As of the Census of 2010, there were 236,123 people, 86,924 households, and 60,212 families residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 73.3% White, 4.8% Black or African American, 1.5% Native American, 8.2% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 21.9% Hispanic or Latino, and 8.3%...

 (facility). They co-create

Co-creation

Co-creation is a form of market or business strategy that emphasizes the generation and ongoing realization of mutual firm-customer value. It views markets as forums for firms and active customers to share, combine and renew each other's resources and capabilities to create value through new forms...

 vehicles with their community of auto designers, engineers, enthusiasts and customers. Local Motors is in production with their first vehicle called the Rally Fighter

Rally Fighter

The Rally Fighter is the first automobile manufactured by Local Motors. The car is designed under CC-BY-NC-SA license. It was featured in an episode of the American version of the television show Top Gear.-External links:*...

, an off-road race vehicle designed to also be street legal which customers buy as part of a build experience with Local Motors engineers in a Local Motors Micro-factory.

The XC2V Design Challenge

In the beginning of 2011, DARPA created a challenge with a prize of $10,000 for the design of a XC2V, Experimental Crowd-derived Combat-support Vehicle.2

External links

• Official Local Motors Website
• Article in Popular Mechanics Local Motors Rally Fighter: PM Exclusive Test Drive
• Article in WIRED Magazine In the next Industrial Revolution, Atoms are the New Bits
• Article in AutoBlog 2010: Local Motors puts five Rally Fighters on display
• Article in Jalopnik Local Motors Rally Fighter: The First-Ever Creative Commons Car
• Article in Bloomberg Business Week Local Motors: A New Kind of Car Company
• Article from Motor Weekly "DARPA Taps Local Motors, Public For Crowd-Sourced XC2V Military Support Vehicle"