Now, the crowd drives automotive innovation.

You can co-create game-changing automotive products with Local Motors

Visit The Forge Meet the Rally Fighter

How it Works

Full Cycle Automotive

  • Co-Create
  • Showcase your work
  • Collaborate with experts
  • Compete with peers
  • Educate yourself: Access tools
  • Design, Engineer, CAD Model, and Fabricate
  • Make
  • Build and sell your own products
  • Build your vehicle
  • Improve your skills: Learn best processes
  • Tailor your car
  • Experience
  • Visit a micro-factory
  • Drive a Local Motors car
  • Continually modify your vehicle
  • Meet the team
  • Join our community
  • Re-make
  • Local factories re-using automotive parts
  • Change your vinyl wrap
  • Re-use your current vehicle in your next vehicle
  • Bond with your car - hold on to it for life

How We Co-Create

The Forge at Local Motors
Local Motors Co-Creation Community
All car enthusiasts Welcome
Industrial Designers

Home for Industrial Design: showcase your work. Gain feedback. Improve skills. Find partners.

Engineers

Home for Engineers who draft. Connect with a community of Experts to engineer amazing structures for automotive.

3D CAD Modelers

Home for CAD wizards: Express yourself in 3D Computer Aided Design. Find the tools to make that affordable and easy.

Fabricators

Make what you design. Share what you make. Learn skills.