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Title: PN #26 - solved: FTI Design, Louis L Lepoix Urbanix prototype, 1972
Post by: pnegyesi on December 09, 2009, 11:40:52 AM
What was the name of this car, who built it and when? A point awaits you...
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: pnegyesi on December 19, 2009, 11:48:23 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: pnegyesi on December 28, 2009, 01:24:12 AM
Three weeks and not single guess. I hope our professionals will be a bit more active on this!
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: pnegyesi on December 29, 2009, 09:09:33 AM
I just dropped a clue on this in another puzzle...
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 29, 2009, 09:38:30 AM
Is it Lepoix?
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: pnegyesi on December 29, 2009, 09:51:27 AM
Yes, Lepoix was the clue...
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 29, 2009, 10:03:06 AM
...so this is made by his FTI design studio?
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: pnegyesi on December 29, 2009, 10:33:52 AM
Yes
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 29, 2009, 11:00:32 AM
I found this car in a site, it's a modular vehicle: closed, like in your picture or in a pick-up version. I still can't find other details...is it electric?
(just to state the obvious...not the Urbanix?)
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: pnegyesi on December 29, 2009, 11:11:50 AM
The actual prototype wasn't electric, but the planned production version was meant to be electric.

All the details I found online on this car refer to an electric version.
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 29, 2009, 11:13:50 AM
I found that the Urbanix was tested with a VW ebgine and then was planned to be also electric-powered. The picture I have is quite different (single front wheel) but the same source shows a silhouette of a different version, more alike this.
Title: Re: PN #26
Post by: pnegyesi on December 29, 2009, 11:31:48 AM
And this is it!

I just found out that the Urbanix prototype still exists and was shown at an exhibition a couple years ago at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt.


Title: Re: PN #26 - solved: FTI Design, Louis L Lepoix Urbanix prototype, 1972
Post by: Allemano on October 16, 2010, 09:48:16 AM
A color picture: