The E-Go Rocket was designed and built by TLC Carrossiers, Inc in W. Palm Beach for Rinspeed Design of Switzerland. It made it's first appearance at the 1998 Geneva International Auto Show. Inspiration for the design came from the belly tank cars raced at the Bonneville Salt Flats in the 50's, and the Auto Union rear engined race cars of the 30's. The Rocket is a street legal single seat roadster that is a blast to drive.
Construction is of composite body panels over a chrome-moly tube chassis.
Fabrication at TLC Carrossiers was done in two months, after a four month design and engineering period. The molds for the composite body were CNC machined in house on the gantry mill. To find more information about this approach for making composite tooling, look at our services or click tooling, car molds .