DPROX's SUV has a lot of angles and joins that require lots of labor. It's good work for a grounds-up design, but not something that can easily see mass production.

The problems that needs to be solved with the old Jeepney design are ones of weight, versatility and simplicity of manufacture. The hand-beaten nature of the panels is not such a huge problem given low local labor rates, but it's labor-intensive... and doesn't lend itself well to cutting corners.

One of the goals of the PhUV project was to find ways to simplify production and maximize cost-savings in the design. But without a unified design and engineering effort, we will all end up with halfway solutions like the MVPMAP effort, the Anfra effort and the open-source effort here on tsikot.