Posted on 07/06/2009 8:52:22 AM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
What if you could buy a car for yourself, one for your spouse, and one for each of your kids, and still spend way less than you would on one average new car? Well, if you lived in China you could.
This is not a toy, not a concept car. It is a newly developed single seat car in highly aerodynamic tear-shape road-proven real car. It is ready to be launched as a single-seater for sale in Shanghai in 2010 for a mere RMB 4,000 (US$600)!
Interested? Wait till you learn that it will cruise at 100-120 Km/Hr with an unbelievable 0.99litre/100Km (258 miles/gallon) !!
Impressed? Totally, after you have read all the details below about the hi-tech and space-age material input into this car!!!
The Most Economic Car in the World will be on sale next year
Better than Electric Car – 258 miles/gallon: IPO 2010 in Shanghai
From conception to production: 3 years and the company is headquartered in Hamburg , Germany ..
Will be selling for 4000 yuan, equivalent to US$600.. Gas tank capacity = 1.7 gallons Speed = 62 – 74.6 Miles/hour Fuel efficiency = 258 miles/gallon Travel distance with a full tank = 404 miles
Looks like a cool car actually. The chinese have done what we said couldn’t be done, thanks unions. Oh, and by the way, meet you new masters, this car is going to revolutionize the world and if they come here I’ll buy one in a heart beat ...
This isn't a car designed to be driven long distances on high-speed freeways. This vehicle would make sense for people living in densely-populated urban areas. My commute to work is 2.5 miles on city surface roads where the speed limit does not exceed 35 mph (and traffic moves slower duirng rush hour). A car like this might actually be attractive to me, if the price really was $600.
It’s called a “Rolls Kinardly” . . . . . . . . Rolls down one hill kinardly get up the next!!
we would like to use our golfcart for that sort of thing but the town prohibited them on city streets. their restrictions did not apply, however, to the guy who motorized a beer cooler and drives it around town just to piss off the council and cops.
One of these things is not like the other.
Fender skirt alert.
If every other car on the road was one of these, and,
we can ban trucks from the Nation's highways, and,
We build high fences along all roads to prevent large animals from crossing, then I would say yea, these can be safe.
You live in a place whetre that is true. A 2.5 mile radius from my house will get you on a city street where the posted limit is 45 and the jacked up pick em ups go 50 to 55. There are big tractor-trailor rigs on these streets also. Not everything is slow and bucolic
That was my first thought and one some here do not appear to quite figure out. I would like to use it to commute my 7 miles in town where one cannot drive over 35mph, parking would be super easy. No way would I ever take it anywhere on the freeway/highway or mountains.
Unbelievable is right.
I think the source article got garbled, somehow. This is a VW prototype with planned sale price of 20K to 30K in euros. $600 doesn’t even buy a highway-worthy motorcycle in China, let alone a car.
$600? I’d buy it.
Still interested? http://www.motorauthority.com/vw-boss-confirms-1-liter-car-for-2010.html
Pricing is expected to fall somewhere between €20,000 and €30,000 ($31,400 to $47,100). Assembly is tipped to take place in VW’s prototype shop, which can produce 1,000 cars per year at full tilt, reports CAR.
My point is that different transportartion options make sense in different environments. This car probably doesn’t work for people in rural areas or who have long commutes, but a large 4X4 is a dumb idea for anyone living in Georgetown or Manhattan.
If I can buy an old clunker($500) trade in on this ($600) then collect $4500 rebate then sign me up. I can pocket $3400 and just park it.
If you whip out a dental drill, I’m gone.
What is the point of a 1.7 gallon gas tank? If you don’t get it filled up enough, you could run out after a hundred miles.....
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