Article: Scorpion King: the eco-exotic sports car was built from the ground up with energy efficiency in mind.(Engineering Answers: AUTOMATIVE)(Cover story)

The idea came to him while he was in China. Ronn Maxwell, CEO and founder of Ronn Motors and father of the Scorpion and Limited Edition Scorpion HX eco-exotic sports cars, was going to build a sports car in China for a large bus manufacturing client. After his visit in 2007, he found that the project simply proved to be too difficult.

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"When I came back to the states, I still had the idea in my head and it wasn't like this was going to be our first automobile," Maxwell recalls. "We've been building cars since we were little boys. I figured that now was the time to just design my own automobile and build it from scratch like I had ...

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