Indeed it is! Much of the inspiration for our modifications came from our study of the Purdue Graz factory built Paris Dakar G Wagen. That G Wagen is now owned by Carlos Garcia of the Garcia Automotive Group - headquartered here in New Mexico. We were able to crawl all over and under that G. They own over 20 major dealerships including Mercedes Benz of Santa Fe. We are incredibly fortunate to have them and the guys at our local Mercedes dealership as one of our supporters for this build!
Our suspension was designed and built by Overland Motorsports out of Albuquerque. These guys have roots in The King of the Hammers, desert racing, rock crawling and European cross country rally builds. The improvements/modifications they made to our car were based on their experiences in those other motorsports and they feel confident that our car will be able to go extremely hard throughout the 4 day race in graceful style. The cool thing is that these guys are open to working with people on these non standard type projects. They love the challenge.
We have an awesome team and we are getting closer to having a solid car, now we just need to do our part....