Talk:Open-source car

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this is one of those rare topics where there are (relatively) many efforts but so few successes (and zero collaboration) that the probability of even *one* of these truly FOSS Cars becoming successful enough to have secondary sources is, unfortunately, a hopelessly unrealistic expectation. many of them were never truly open collaboration ("i'll release the CAD when it's 100% complete"), many of them are offline websites

the car i am designing has been 19 years planning, two "failed" (conversions) prototypes costing around GBP 3,000 each time, this one is around GBP *12,000* and i expect it to take around 6 months, excluding the MSVA (Motorcycle Single Vehicle Appoval). unlike people who buy Caterham 7 kit cars, a FOSSHW Car a whoooole new level of "total loonie" :)

that said, the page rank on searches "Open source car" is No 1, making it *by default* the canonical location where people could have a hope in hell of finding an actual "Open Source Car" to build and/or contribute to, despite the complexity and the cost. removing any one of the primary sources purely because they *are* primary sources pretty much condemns that internet page to "long-tail death" Lkcl (talk) 01:23, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]