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Some dude in Australia is 3D printing an Austin Martin DB4 and assembling it himself. According to his site, he has the car 72% printed and 52% assembled.
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Now the lawsuits begin.
And so it begins.........
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Printing out a roadworthy "some assembly required" car would be awesome. Talk about the ultimate in personal customizability, printing to your own specs would essentially make it your own brand kit car if you based it around existing hardware. Or take it one step further and print it out from the ground up, just sourcing what you can't make yourself.If this is just a model car on a larger scale, then it's awesome! If this moron thinks he is going to end up with a street legal car when he's done, he's a moron.
3D printing isn't going to be worth more than prototyping till they can print metals like steel and aluminum.
New zealand not Australian
For all the time spent doing it this way, it would make more sense spending a couple of years working out the rent/usage of a large scale 3D print factory to make the car body in one shot right out of the printer in a material that IS the final car body.
Making a mold out of this is just needlessly complex.
Aston-Martin Is Trademarked, So Austin It Is......Isn't it an Aston Martin? Not sure who Austin Martin is.