PN #26 - solved: FTI Design, Louis L Lepoix Urbanix prototype, 1972

pnegyesi · December 09, 2009, 11:40:52 AM

What was the name of this car, who built it and when? A point awaits you...

pnegyesi · December 19, 2009, 11:48:23 AM

Experts?

pnegyesi · 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!

pnegyesi · December 29, 2009, 09:09:33 AM

I just dropped a clue on this in another puzzle...

Paul Jaray · December 29, 2009, 09:38:30 AM

Is it Lepoix?

pnegyesi · December 29, 2009, 09:51:27 AM

Yes, Lepoix was the clue...

Paul Jaray · December 29, 2009, 10:03:06 AM

...so this is made by his FTI design studio?

pnegyesi · December 29, 2009, 10:33:52 AM

Yes

Paul Jaray · 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?)

pnegyesi · 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.

Paul Jaray · 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.

pnegyesi · 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.

Allemano · October 16, 2010, 09:48:16 AM

A color picture:

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PN #26 - solved: FTI Design, Louis L Lepoix Urbanix prototype, 1972