Printing a Car

While surfing the internet I came across an article titled “New Zealand man creating Aston Martin Replica on desktop 3D printer. This caught my attention for two reasons, one I really like cars and its not just any car its an Aston Martin. The second reason is because it was being made by a 3D printer. I’ve written a most of my blogs on 3D printers so this would fit right in. 

Ivan Sentch is a programmer and lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He is printing a replica of a 1961 series II Aston Martin DB4. Unfortunately the article was very short and his blog didn’t have any good information. But it got me thinking. Could it be possible to use a 3D printer and print cars and have them work? When I started to think about this question I realized it is a lot harder then it sounds. Once you finished printing all of the parts you will need to put them together. So the person is going to need a lot of knowledge about putting the car together. Not only that they are going to need to know how to wire the car with all the electronics. That is just as difficult as putting the car together. So as far as the average person printing a car I don’t think it is practical. But for the overall idea of printing a car and make it drivable I think is possible.