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I haven't heard much about his iStream technology recently. I wonder if anyone but Yamaha has taken it up. http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a6665/g

I haven't heard much about his iStream technology recently. I wonder if anyone but Yamaha has taken it up. http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a6665/gordon-murray-i-stream-website/ http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a6665/gordon-mu... Murray "... even claimed that the process is so simplified that Walmart or Apple could use it to start manufacturing cars."

jonah 10y ago
the BMW i3 is probably the closest production vehicle. It's pretty revolutionary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDr4L6BzpP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDr4L6BzpP8
- fwr 10y ago
  Is there a text version or an article about this?
  - jonah 10y ago
    The full report is available for $500k! DDG says: http://www.hybridcars.com/teardown-reveals-bmw-i3-is-most-advanced-vehicle-on-the-planet/ http://www.hybridcars.com/teardown-reveals-bmw-i3-is-most-ad... http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/01/05/reverse-engineering-bmw-i3/ http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/01/05/reverse-engineering-bmw-i3... http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2015/01/04/video-unlocking-the-secrets-of-bmws-remarkable-car-of-the-future/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2015/01/04/video-unl... But for more you'll just have to do some searching.
- patrickk 10y ago
  This is extraordinary. Thanks for sharing. It's amazing that BMW aren't shouting about this from the rooftops. They mention something about social media on the page for the i3 (at least on my local site) but nothing about the manufacturing process used for the body and the other innovations.
cbartlett 10y ago
I believe it's used in the new TVR project.
exDM69 10y ago
Gordon Murray comments in the article that iStream was an inspiration and lessons learned from that project were applied to the OX. And the concept is taken much further too, the idea of iStream was to replace hard-to-manufacture precision moulded and welded panels used in consturcting the chassis with much simpler tubular construction (while using modern designs to get the rigidity and durability). The entire OX chassis is built with flat panels (from "engineered plywood", I think that's a wood + aluminium composite) and straight tubes, making it really simple to manufacture and assemble but rigid and strong. This is also where the race car designer background comes into play. Back when he got started, it was all tubular frame construction for the lower end and riveted aluminium monocoques for the top end. Of course his best known works are from the early carbon fiber composite era (mid 1980s) but his background in chassis rigidity must really help.

jonah 10y ago

the BMW i3 is probably the closest production vehicle. It's pretty revolutionary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDr4L6BzpP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDr4L6BzpP8

fwr 10y ago
Is there a text version or an article about this?
- jonah 10y ago
  The full report is available for $500k! DDG says: http://www.hybridcars.com/teardown-reveals-bmw-i3-is-most-advanced-vehicle-on-the-planet/ http://www.hybridcars.com/teardown-reveals-bmw-i3-is-most-ad... http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/01/05/reverse-engineering-bmw-i3/ http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/01/05/reverse-engineering-bmw-i3... http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2015/01/04/video-unlocking-the-secrets-of-bmws-remarkable-car-of-the-future/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2015/01/04/video-unl... But for more you'll just have to do some searching.
patrickk 10y ago
This is extraordinary. Thanks for sharing. It's amazing that BMW aren't shouting about this from the rooftops. They mention something about social media on the page for the i3 (at least on my local site) but nothing about the manufacturing process used for the body and the other innovations.

cbartlett 10y ago

I believe it's used in the new TVR project.

exDM69 10y ago

Gordon Murray comments in the article that iStream was an inspiration and lessons learned from that project were applied to the OX. And the concept is taken much further too, the idea of iStream was to replace hard-to-manufacture precision moulded and welded panels used in consturcting the chassis with much simpler tubular construction (while using modern designs to get the rigidity and durability). The entire OX chassis is built with flat panels (from "engineered plywood", I think that's a wood + aluminium composite) and straight tubes, making it really simple to manufacture and assemble but rigid and strong. This is also where the race car designer background comes into play. Back when he got started, it was all tubular frame construction for the lower end and riveted aluminium monocoques for the top end. Of course his best known works are from the early carbon fiber composite era (mid 1980s) but his background in chassis rigidity must really help.