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Have you ever thought you could design a car better than anything on the market?  Then Project Splitwheel is looking for you, to help create a new sports car.

Caterham Seven

Project Splitwheel brings together gearheads from allover the world and allows them to vote on different concepts to create the world’s first crowdsourced sports car. Caterham Cars, the UK based manufacturer of the Caterham Seven has joined with Project Splitwheel and has agreed to create a prototype and ultimately manufactured in product, with the hope of being in full production by 2011.

“Cars are amongst the most hotly debated topics on the internet and for the first time we are going to channel some of that passion and energy into an exciting high-profile project with a real-world outcome,” says Piers Drake Project Splitwheels creator. “Every petrolhead dreams of running their own sports car company. Project Splitwheel is effectively the world’s first ‘virtual’ car manufacturer and as far as possible we will be asking our members to call the shots, just as if they were running a marque themselves.”

The project is open to anyone regardless of background. Users are able to collaborate on forums, Wiki’s and voting. Users will vote on key design features each week, everything from engine location to leather seats to the name of the car. Along with acting as a liaison with Caterham’s engineering team, Project Splitwheel will also provide guidance and input from automotive industry experts as required.

Project Splitwheel is on the right track, they’ve taken a huge task of designing a car and broke it into very small pieces. These pieces are much easier for the crowd to create and combine into a finished product. My only hope is that we don’t end up with something like The Homer:

You can register on the website now, they’re hoping to start Crowdsourcing this project in the new year.