The world ’s first savorless - pack truck does n’t take much longer to get together than an IKEA couch . Auto Expressreports that the two - wheel drive fomite , call theOX , takes only 12 hour to put together and can drag up to 4189 pounds of cargo in its load bed .
Designed by Gordon Murray and commissioned by Sir Torquil Norman of the Global Vehicle Trust ( GVT ) , the OX was created to be rugged enough for off - road adventures , flash enough to be widely affordable , and compact enough that it can be easily ship in orotund quantities overseas . While the wild ox could well find a home wherever there ’s a securities industry for affordable vehicles , it was contrive specifically to help with transport problems in more removed parts of Africa and Asia where machine are in short provision .
GVT hopes that the OX will not only ease transportation problems but also create jobs in their goal countries , where local companies will be employ to assemble the vehicle . Packaged and ship in much the same way of life as traditional unconditional - pack furniture , the OX truck kits can be built apace by group of three people . Six OX truck kits are compendious enough to equip in a single shipping container .
Designer Gordon Murray , who is well known for engineer the McLaren F1 sports car , told Auto Express he sees the OX as his greatest design accomplishment .
“ We ’ve benchmarked it and have a go at it that there ’s nothing else like it on the major planet , " he explained . " It can convey up to 13 people , eight 44 gallon drum , or three Euro pallet . aboveboard , I ’m more proud of this fomite than anything else I ’ve ever done — including the McLaren F1 road cable car which was a narrow-minded product for only a few wealthy people across the globe . ”
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