FOMBI is the inter-college engineering design competition that challenges students to research, design, and fabricate an off-road buggy. The design challenge aims to simulate real-world engineering design projects and their related tasks. To give teams the maximum design flexibility and the freedom to express their creativity and imagination. For the purpose of the FOMBI, teams are to assume that they work for a design firm that is designing, fabricating, testing, and demonstrating an off-road buggy for the non-professional, weekend, competition market.

The car should have very high performance in terms of acceleration, braking, and handling and be sufficiently durable to successfully complete all the events described in the FOMBI.