A group of Lovely Professional University (LPU) mechanical engineering students remodelled a top brand car with innovation. The students added safety measures and transformed the car into a roll-cage chassis for a sportier design. Five passing-out BTech Mechanical Engineering at Lovely Professional University (LPU) batch students have remodelled and fabricated a pre-existing top-brand old car with perfection and innovation.

With believes in the maxim of dreams, LPU students envisioned a project to remodel a pre-existing vehicle. The students finalised Tata Nano as the base vehicle.

The students wanted the innovative creation to be a sportier design and selected the car for its engine at the rear end. In addition, the car model was affordable, as well as a challenge.

In four months of remodeling time, the design project went through numerous deformation tests and analyses.

The car was mounted over the Tata Nano base for the safety of the vehicle and driver. Tyres got changed from 145 mm width to 205 mm for better traction. The overall performance has now been increased by a reduction in weight.

The re-design is both aesthetically pleasing and structurally robust.

LPUs creative students stated, “In fact, safety and optimization are two important factors in the automobile industry, and the chassis serves as the backbone of an automobile. The existing chassis design is perfectly functional, yet it can be improved upon as per needs.”

The prime study focuses of the car is a novel design of a sports coupe roll cage without compromising on performance and functionality.

The team of five students included Pulkit Rathore, Pratap Chandra, Lokesh Pradhan, Bipin Kumar and Dilip Gehlot. The production of the deadly Covid-19 period now stands as a study model for the subsequent batches of students.

Their fault-free creative project is now an innovative study model at the university's Innovation Studio.

During a motivational celebratory occasion titled Encore for the same, the keys of the re-modelled vehicle chassis were handed over by the students to LPU Pro Chancellor Rashmi Mittal.

LPU Pro Chancellor Rashmi Mittal applauded the creation of the students, and also handed over an honorarium to them while assuring university support, in future as well.

At the occasion, Dean Student Welfare Wing Dr Sorabh Lakhanpal, Assist Professor Mandeep Singh (Innovation Studio) and mentor of the project Assist Prof Minesh Vohra (Automobile Engineering) were also present.