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posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 28 2015, @09:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the coming-slowly-to-a-showroom-near-you dept.

Here's a story from Fortune.com about the worlds first 3D-printed-car:

This week at the Detroit auto show, [Local Motors] 3D-printed a car called the Strati. The two-seater is made of plastic components and can go up to 25 miles per hour.

The car — which Local plans to sell later this year — takes about 44 hours to print, and is then outfitted with an electric car battery, motor and suspension from French automaker Renault, according to the Associated Press. Local Motors CEO Jay Rogers told the AP the Strati is the first of three vehicles he plans to sell. The Strati will cost between $18,000 and $30,000, he added.The two-seater is made of plastic components and can go up to 25 miles per hour so it's more of a cart than a car.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 28 2015, @10:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 28 2015, @10:12AM (#138816)
    That's not a car. That's a gokart.
  • (Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday January 28 2015, @10:17AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Wednesday January 28 2015, @10:17AM (#138818) Homepage

    The car — which Local plans to sell later this year [...] will cost between $18,000 and $30,000

    The two-seater [...] can go up to 25 miles per hour.

    Hmm, good luck with that.

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    • (Score: 2) by CoolHand on Wednesday January 28 2015, @01:30PM

      by CoolHand (438) on Wednesday January 28 2015, @01:30PM (#138848) Journal
      yeah, I'd say it's a nice proof of concept, but I can't imagine anyone would buy it at that price with the (lack of) features that it has..
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by WizardFusion on Wednesday January 28 2015, @10:53AM

    by WizardFusion (498) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 28 2015, @10:53AM (#138821) Journal

    ...also notes that the Strati is not yet highway-legal.

  • (Score: 1) by Nuke on Wednesday January 28 2015, @11:41AM

    by Nuke (3162) on Wednesday January 28 2015, @11:41AM (#138827)

    The link seems to have been SoylentNews-ed. I'm not getting past the top banner.

    But haven't we seen a printed car before? Perhaps it is the same one - can anyone remeber andgive a link? The only printed bit on that one was the body panels, and they looked like shit.

    • (Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Wednesday January 28 2015, @12:02PM

      by WizardFusion (498) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 28 2015, @12:02PM (#138830) Journal

      This one is fully printed except for the drive train and engine (from what I remember)
      Not sure I would trust it really

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 28 2015, @01:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 28 2015, @01:34PM (#138850)

    Has anybody else noticed how the proliferation of technology is making things shittier and shittier? There's a correlation between democraticness and shit quality. Look at this shit car. Shittier /and/ expensiver. What's next -- letting the plebs write news stories on their own web logs and then mashing them together into a digital newspaper-facsimile? Firing an entire staff of photographers so they can be supplanted by incidental plebeian cell fone pictures and stock photo? Look up the ancient Greek meaning of Techne, and the former English meaning of delayed gratification, y'all !

    • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday January 28 2015, @02:59PM

      by darkfeline (1030) on Wednesday January 28 2015, @02:59PM (#138890) Homepage

      Innovative technology is always shittier and more expensive in the beginning.

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      • (Score: 2) by emg on Wednesday January 28 2015, @06:29PM

        by emg (3464) on Wednesday January 28 2015, @06:29PM (#138971)

        Sinclair ZX80 couldn't even display the screen at the same time the CPU was doing anything productive.

        Like the early personal computers, 3D printers will only get better over time.

  • (Score: 2) by Zinho on Wednesday January 28 2015, @04:31PM

    by Zinho (759) on Wednesday January 28 2015, @04:31PM (#138939)

    You wouldn't download a car, would you?

    Looking forward to the downloadable car as a milestone in refuting MAFIAA strawman arguments.

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