For a Rare Automotive Start-up Company, QMC Knocks Out 8-Week Turnaround on Entire Body-in-White Prototype Program

As the industry’s premier large-scale prototype supplier, QMC was the obvious choice in 2006 when Madison Heights, MI-based Triad Engineering needed lightning fast turnaround on a new vehicle that might revolutionize the taxi industry.

Triad needed alpha vehicles for testing purposes—on an 8-week deadline—and tapped QMC for this high-pressure task. QMC’s massive 250,000 square-foot campus—including a fully-secure, 40,000-square-foot key-entry facility for top-secret projects—was uniquely equipped with the space, capacity, and equipment needed to tool, stamp, and assemble entire prototype bodies for the unique Standard Taxi program.

The result? In 8 weeks QMC had soft-tooled and assembled all of the cab’s body-in-white sheet metal.

The prototype vehicles were used for testing and publicity purposes, and the Standard Taxi won rave reviews around the United States. For reaction to the vehicle and more images, please visit www.standardtaxi.com.

With the Standard Taxi, the Troy, Michigan-based Vehicle Production Group is attempting to be the first new U.S. automotive manufacturer in decades. And when the vehicle does finally go into production (projected for 2007), QMC will hold the contract for all the hard-tool construction—and possibly the stamping reward too.

With the success of the Standard Taxi prototype program, QMC once again proved itself up to the task of even the largest and most time-sensitive prototype turnarounds.