Local Motors is an open source automobile company founded by John "Jay" Rogers and Jeff Jones, bi-located in both Wareham, Massachusetts (founded) and Chandler, Arizona (facility). They co-create vehicles with their community of auto designers, engineers, enthusiasts and customers. Local Motors is in production with their first vehicle called the Rally Fighter, an off-road race vehicle designed to also be street legal which customers buy as part of a build experience with Local Motors engineers in a Local Motors Micro-factory.
In the beginning of 2011, DARPA created a challenge with a prize of $10,000 for the design of a XC2V, Experimental Crowd-derived Combat-support Vehicle.2