Case Study: Radford Motors achieves rapid, cost-effective low-volume custom vehicle production with Stratasys 3D printing

Radford Motors - Customer Case Study

Radford Motors, a boutique coachbuilder reviving classic British luxury cars with a 62-unit limited run, faced the challenge that conventional mass-production methods, CNC-machined foam and clay prototyping, and full factory tooling were prohibitively slow and expensive for highly customized, low-volume production. To overcome this, Radford turned to Stratasys, leveraging large-format additive manufacturing with F770 and F900 printers and materials like ABS-CF10 and ASA to create tooling and prototype parts.

Using Stratasys F770 and F900 printers and strong, lightweight thermoplastics, Radford dramatically sped design iteration and produced tooling, prototype wheel centers, ducts, and dashboard panels far more economically than traditional methods. The printers’ 13- and 18-cubic-foot build volumes plus material performance enabled faster, lower-cost tooling and production parts, making Radford Motors’ low-volume, highly customized business model economically viable.

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