Rinspeed E-Go Rocket – the Spirit of Egoist’s!

The idea:
In the words of Frank M. Rinderknecht founder and owner of Rinspeed Inc.: "For me, the Rinspeed E-Go Rocket represents another means of widening one's horizons and a fresh challenge. My goal was to satisfy the demands of the law and the principles of good design at one and the same time. I wanted the Rinspeed E-Go Rocket to be a totally exclusive and innovative car, but one entirely suitable for road use. I also intended it to stand clearly apart from the work of tuners who merely convert existing products. It is a recollection of the great speed record setting cars of the Bonneville (Utah) salt flats of the 1940s, a revival of the courage for speed and the spirit of the pioneer’s, but also as an embodiment of state-of-the-art technology – and of course of Rinspeed's skills in these areas." Rinderknecht has a convincing explanation of the short period of time needed to develop the new project: "When the pressure's on, development results are often better than if too much agonizing goes into them!" In this case, certainly, this argument holds good.

One of the most remarkable features of Frank M. Rinderknecht's latest creation is surely the fact that the Rinspeed E-Go Rocket complies with valid European Union legislation and is a fully-fledged road-going design. "We wanted to build an exclusive car, but one that could be taken out on the roads as well as acting as a pilot project at exhibitions." This ambitious target has certainly been achieved by the Rinspeed E-Go Rocket – its luggage compartment, located above the engine, can for instance still easily accommodate a bag. What this mobile work of art is to cost has yet to be finalized. However, it is only built to order.

The development work:
Frank M. Rinderknecht made use of the very latest techniques in the design and development of this project, including advanced CAD/CAM methods. The CAD/CAM Computer (which in terms of performance would not be out of place in a major automobile manufacturer's development department) processes all the details with such accuracy that very few changes are needed when the full-scale model is built. Rinderknecht: "By using CAD/CAM, linked to a five-axes-mill-machine, we achieve an unequaled standard of processing quality and can also implement our ideas far faster than ever before. This naturally helped us to get the Rocket project rolling in such a short time."

Story by Rinspeed Edited by Maximum-Cars.com