Custom Car Skins (CCS) Coming Your Way from the Community that is Rockin' Car Design

That's right Vision readers. We are ready to announce the next step in our unique automotive development process - Custom Car Skins®.

Long have we heard the request from buyers for them to be able to customize their cars in a more accessible and meaningful way. Good design ideas and execution given the restrictions of traditional paint shops have always been the impediments....until now, because of some fundamental steps forward:

1) We have incorporated a process to build all of our cars with vinyl coverings allowing ultimate customizability at an affordable price with great quality and reliability.

2) With almost 2,800 bangin' contributors, the LM community has become robust enough to provide customers with a well-spring of great design ideas.

With these two developments, we realized that there was a marriage waiting to be arranged. A Crowdsource marriage.

Though you have seen special designs in some of our build entries for the Rally Fighter before,...














...we have decided to develop this design functionality further in advance of the Rally Fighter launch. For this reason, we will soon launch our first Custom Car Skins® design competition where we will invite our community (and any graphically-inclined new members) to compete for the very first exterior design "skin" that we will execute... on none other than my very own 1971 280SL classic, Pagoda-Roof Mercedes Benz Roadster.








A little note about what this means to our community:

As most of you know, Local Motors Competitions have, to-date, been "hosted" by our Company where LM will post a competition description and the community will submit, vote, comment and crown a winner. Perhaps the most fundamental shift in these Custom Car Skins® competitions is that the customer - NOT the Company - will post the competition description and pick a winner from the community. Of course, the community will still submit, vote, and comment, but increasingly more power will reside with the customer (the ultimate user)!

Pretty cool shift for this type of comp. we think!

So join us soon as I post the inaugural Custom Car Skins competition description calling for the redesign of the exterior of my car.