A perfect city car.
Commuter traffic in Chicago never exceeds 25 MPH.
That Fur-Raptor needs a Hyabusa motor and transmission with suspension upgrades to be a really interesting urban assault vehicle.
Verdict....
DRAW!!!
They couldn’t make them fast enough if these were sold in the US, even at twice the price and made in America.
I like the little truck verson.
That Chinese thing is the liberal wet dream car. Required for everyone.
Uh, yeah.
Outbound Stevenson Expressway, 6:20 pm, no major accidents or construction, anything west of I-355 (and some days, Cass Ave.), no commuter will likely hit you from behind in excess of 25 mph over your own speed as long as you are going at least 70...
Ok, that’s past the Chicago city limit.
North Lakeshore drive, outside of rush hour.
Granted that Austin, TX is even crazier, but that’s as much the layout as the drivers, anymore.
I had to Google that, was not disappointed.
I have a little 3 wheel electric ‘pickup truck’ for light hauling around “the gulch”. The motor is rated at 1200 watts, but the controller can easily modded or replaced for fifty bucks on eBay, and the motor will easily put out double that amount with no problem. And comparing electric motor to a gas motor, even though a horsepower is 746 watts , the performance feels like about double what a gas engine will do, due to torque curves.
I can haul 800 pounds in mine (as long as I don’t have to go up a much of an incline), and top speed is around 32 mph. On flat paved roads my range would be around 30 miles, not that I have ever tried it.
I am surprised that the things in the article sell for 1600 bucks... I’d think the body would cost nearly that much... My little truck cost nearly that much, and all it has is a metal box and a padded plywood seat.
Might be kind of fun to get one of these little cars and ‘hot rod’ it.