Puzzle #487 - Solved! Carbon Motors E7

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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[Ray B.]

Your pic doesn't show, Mr. Utz
(one minute later) Oops! Sorry, that was a failure in my internet connection. I got it.

[Otto Puzzell]

The failure was mine. I posted the puzzle before FTP'ing the pic to the server.

[Otto Puzzell]

OK, Experts - have at it!  :)

[Paul Jaray]

Hi, that is a Carbon Motors E7....
Carbon Motors makes a logical point with their new Carbon E7 purpose-built police car: while other government services like fire trucks are purpose-built, police vehicles are usually stock civilian vehicles which are then modified to suit police purposes, with stuff like radios, sirens and other equipment added aftermarket-style.

The Carbon E7 is the world's first purpose-built law enforcement vehicle. The result is a police sedan that runs on a 3.0 liter inline-6 twin-turbodiesel engine that is bio-diesel capable, putting out 300 horsepower and 570Nm of torque via a 6-speed automatic transmission through the rear wheels. That actually pretty much sounds similar to the BMW 335d or the 535d. While the engine is from an unnamed third party vendor, the aluminium spaceframe chassis has been entirely developed in-house. The car is designed to have a 400,000km lifespan.

[el_monty]

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[GrahamClayton]

The Carbon Motors Corporation applied for $310 million in Department of Energy loans to get production started, but this was refused, which resulted in the company going out of business before building any production-spec vehicles. The lone prototype was sold at auction in 2014 to an Indiana collector for $74,000.