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Engineers from the UK have built the world’s first flat pack truck.
The Ox is designed to provide all-terrain mobility for communities in the developing world. It is very durable and light so it can be easily transported to remote locations, and has a lot of storage space. It is also able to be assembled by non-experts in less than 12 hours and can travel 1,000km without the need to fill up with petrol.
The Ox is currently backed by the Global Vehicle Trust (GVT). The trust’s Henry Labouchere tested the vehicle and told Autocar: “We’ve used it for everything you’d do with a Land Rover and it has always come up smiling.”
The project is the brain-child of Professor Gordon Murray, an acclaimed designer for Formula 1 race cars and the McLaren F1 road car, and the entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Torquil Norman.
Despite his previous achievements, Murray told the BBC the two-wheel drive off-road vehicle “ranks above anything else I’ve ever done”.
“The Ox design and prototyping programme is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and challenging I have undertaken during my 45 years of car design, including my years in F1″ said Murray.
“The most satisfying elements of the project for me are that the Ox will make such a difference to so many people and that it has no competitor in any part of the world.”
So far three prototypes of the Ox have been designed and created, at a cost of £3 million but GVT hopes to secure further backing from major vehicle makers.
