A few years ago, it would be hard to imagine that someone could start a car company with $4 million in venture funding and actually produce an extremely functional, drivable, production ready car to sell. Jay Rogers, the CEO and co-founder of Local Motors, has done just that and now has nearly 60 people waiting inline to build their own Rally Fighter.
The Rally Fighter is designed by members of the Local Motor community who compete and collaborate in competitions to model various different pieces of the car. The community provides feedback, votes on changes and the car they'd like to see developed. They then collaborate with the Local Motors team to spec and build the car alongside them. Let me emphasize this...the car is entirely designed by the community! The team at Local Motors then assembles the car with a working model that others can purchase and then build their own similar to how you might build a model car, except life size.
