The Locost kits are homebuilt Lotus Sevens. The best way is a kit car, which is a pre-fabricated car, usually using a drivetrain from a popular vehicle and designed to be easily built. However, there are some ways to get a lot of the same gratification without putting yourself through the hell of a truly ground-up car. It’s also a very complex engineering challenge, and even with the experience I’ve had with it I would be intimidated to start a project like that. Our budget was around $60k but we already had all the tools, that’s just materials and consumables. Those cars required about 5000 hours of fabrication time to complete, that’s not including design time. I did Formula SAE for 3 years, building a very barebones racecar with a motorcycle engine. But I have to warn that it’s very difficult. So you want to build your own car from the ground up… I can’t blame you, that’s an admirable goal and an exciting proposition.
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