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

[pnegyesi]

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

[pnegyesi]

Experts?

[pnegyesi]

Three weeks and not single guess. I hope our professionals will be a bit more active on this!

[pnegyesi]

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

[Paul Jaray]

Is it Lepoix?

[pnegyesi]

Yes, Lepoix was the clue...

[Paul Jaray]

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

[pnegyesi]

Yes

[Paul Jaray]

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]

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]

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]

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]

A color picture: