http://www.local-motors.com Driven By Design™ Fri, 18 May 2012 19:13:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.local-motors.com/news-design-peterbilts-next-rig2-this-is-as-big-as-it-gets/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/news-design-peterbilts-next-rig2-this-is-as-big-as-it-gets/2012/05/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 16:55:03 +0000 Ari Ferreira http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1846 This is as big as it gets.  The world’s foremost creator and manufacturer of trucks invite you to design the next big thing – the Peterbilt Rig.  This is literally the biggest and boldest competition yet – are you in?  Details will be posted and the competition will begin on 6/5.  Here’s a teaser video…]]> http://www.local-motors.com/news-design-peterbilts-next-rig2-this-is-as-big-as-it-gets/2012/05/feed/ 0 http://www.local-motors.com/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-but-awesomeness-is-universal/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-but-awesomeness-is-universal/2012/05/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 22:18:27 +0000 Alex Fiechter http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1811 I want to take a moment to talk about Awesome. A lot of people like to go on and on about how the automotive world is very subjective. I may like sports cars, you may like 4x4s, I may like Japanese, you may like Amur’can. Maybe you like glossy candy apple red paint jobs 20 [...]]]> http://www.local-motors.com/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-but-awesomeness-is-universal/2012/05/feed/ 0 http://www.local-motors.com/vote-for-your-favorite-btwin-velomobile/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/vote-for-your-favorite-btwin-velomobile/2012/05/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 15:38:39 +0000 Ari Ferreira http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1799     It’s time to vote!  This is no small task as there are over 90 fantastically unique B’TWIN Velomobile designs in this competition. Our suggestion is to start NOW, and vote for a few each day. We love to take our time here and review and vote for each and every design.Vote here, start [...]]]> http://www.local-motors.com/vote-for-your-favorite-btwin-velomobile/2012/05/feed/ 0 http://www.local-motors.com/rally-fighter-to-run-in-the-gumball-3000/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/rally-fighter-to-run-in-the-gumball-3000/2012/05/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 17:51:45 +0000 Adam Keiser http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1792 Next Monday the 21st, the Local Motors Sales and Marketing Team will be heading to the big apple, with not one but two Rally Fighters.  The Gumball 3000 will start in Times Square May 25th and end in Los Angeles on May 31th, with plenty of stops in between.  For more information about the Gumball, [...]]]> http://www.local-motors.com/rally-fighter-to-run-in-the-gumball-3000/2012/05/feed/ 0 http://www.local-motors.com/thank-you-from-btwin/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/thank-you-from-btwin/2012/05/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 21:49:35 +0000 Nyko Depeyer http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1782 The Team at B’TWIN wanted to thank all of the participants from the Velomobile Contest for your hard work and your participation. Thus, they created this video to Thank you. Without further ado…. A Thank you From B’TWIN:]]> http://www.local-motors.com/thank-you-from-btwin/2012/05/feed/ 7 http://www.local-motors.com/last-day-to-enter-the-btwin-velomobile-design-challenge/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/last-day-to-enter-the-btwin-velomobile-design-challenge/2012/05/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 19:47:32 +0000 Ari Ferreira http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1775 This is the last day! Tonight, Tuesday, May 15 at midnight (EST, -5 UTC) is your deadline to create a design for the B’TWIN Velomobile Design Challenge. Each participating designer will create a unique lightweight, customizable, urban friendly tricycle that can accommodate two driving positions, provides electric-assist and protection from weather and collision, can be [...]]]> http://www.local-motors.com/last-day-to-enter-the-btwin-velomobile-design-challenge/2012/05/feed/ 0 http://www.local-motors.com/inspeyered-vol-2-whats-cool-on-the-forge-and-around-the-interwebs-mid-may-edition/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/inspeyered-vol-2-whats-cool-on-the-forge-and-around-the-interwebs-mid-may-edition/2012/05/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 01:56:36 +0000 Nyko Depeyer http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1753 Are you Inspired? Inspeyered is a new weekly blog post written by Nyko de Peyer aka idesigncars that covers cool projects on The Forge and news from around the web each week to inspire the design community and share a few things we find cool here at Local Motors.I hope you find these posts interesting [...]]]> http://www.local-motors.com/inspeyered-vol-2-whats-cool-on-the-forge-and-around-the-interwebs-mid-may-edition/2012/05/feed/ 1 http://www.local-motors.com/lm-tech-news-week-ending-may-11-2012-easier-uploading-new-rallyfighter-site-more/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/lm-tech-news-week-ending-may-11-2012-easier-uploading-new-rallyfighter-site-more/2012/05/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 23:00:36 +0000 Tim Thomas http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1712 This was a big week for rallyfighter.com which received a massive facelift this week! Please let us know what you think! Features released this week on the forge include the ability to upload images and files directly to content areas without having to go through the palette, user activity stats on user profiles, and the [...]]]> http://www.local-motors.com/lm-tech-news-week-ending-may-11-2012-easier-uploading-new-rallyfighter-site-more/2012/05/feed/ 0 http://www.local-motors.com/btwin-designers-live-chat-thursday/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/btwin-designers-live-chat-thursday/2012/05/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 21:18:22 +0000 Ari Ferreira http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1685   This Thursday B’TWIN and LM Members will gather once again to have questions asked and answered. Are you working on a Velomobile design for the B’TWIN competition? Or, are you interested to see how being a member at Local Motors can help connect you to major design studios? Join this conversation to learn more. [...]]]> http://www.local-motors.com/btwin-designers-live-chat-thursday/2012/05/feed/ 0 http://www.local-motors.com/its-alive-rallyfighter-com-gets-a-facelift/2012/05/ http://www.local-motors.com/its-alive-rallyfighter-com-gets-a-facelift/2012/05/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 21:01:45 +0000 Adam Keiser http://www.local-motors.com/?p=1678   www.rallyfighter.com After a few months of hard work, elbow grease, and a few Starbucks runs, RallyFighter.com is re-born.  Stay tuned for up to date, news, videos and pictures of the Rally Fighter]]> http://www.local-motors.com/its-alive-rallyfighter-com-gets-a-facelift/2012/05/feed/ 0