Harley Earl grew up in Hollywood building custom cars for movie stars before becoming GM’s first design director in 1927, pioneering clay modeling as a faster way to prototype forms. FLEX FAB does the same for fabrication a century later, working like 3D printing for metal: no specialized stamping tools, just laser-welded seams, visible precision bolts, and a flat-topped silhouette produced on-demand. The HUMMER X is the first concept built around that process, a mid-size electric rock crawler revealed at GM’s new Pasadena studio in both truck and SUV form. Off-road hardware includes 35-to-37-inch Goodyear tires, beadlock wheels, Multimatic shocks, and 12.5 to 13.2 inches of ground clearance. A scout drone can fly ahead on the trail, feed real-time terrain data back to the vehicle, and dock itself when not in use. Not intended for production, though the tire treads stamp “the courage to get lost leads to new discoveries” into whatever surface you’re crossing.
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