The Bowler Bulldog – did you know…?
27 Apr 2018
There’s more to the latest Bowler model than meets the eye, as these ten facts and stats highlight…
- The Bulldog is the first of the next generation Bowler vehicles to be based on the company’s innovate and patented Cross Sector Platform (CSP) rolling chassis – and is available in both race and road versions
- The chassis was designed in-house from a blank sheet of paper. Our competition bred design ethos of light-weighting and high strength were core concepts and the modular construction means we can adapt and act quickly to create new variants to suit specific applications
- The chassis spent six months in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to deliver increased stiffness and weight reduction before laser cutting the first prototype part
- The chassis consists of a mixture of Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) cut high grade sheet metal, tube and other precision engineered components
- The suspension system is state-of-the-art giving both on-road and off-road handling class-leading capability in the performance SUV market
- To improve the approach angle of the vehicle, a high performance cooling pack is fitted with a 30% reduction in size, whilst retaining cooling performance
- Each Bulldog takes 480 hours to craft, manufacture and build by hand
- The Bulldog is undergoing continuous development to feed into Bowler’s vehicle design and engineering, in a range of tough environments and conditions from the deserts of Morocco and UK hill rallies, to Spanish dirt tracks, beach races in Holland and mud lakes in Germany
- “A 15 minute drive in the Bulldog gives you a smile factor off the scale” – Liam Griffin, Vice Chairman of Addison Lee and Bowler Bulldog owner
- More exciting versions of the Bulldog are in the pipeline….. we’ll keep you posted