MY 1976 1 ton Chevy 4 speed dually would think it had hit a gust of wind.
“1976 1 ton Chevy 4 speed dually would think it had hit a gust of wind.”
These are for high density cities like New York City. Your 76 would struggle to make turns in NYC, it would cost you 4.50 a gal to fill it after waiting 45 minutes in line at one of the few pumps on the island. It would cost you $75 to park it no in and out. Every time you wanted to use it and put it back in parking lot is $75 or more. Sure bring that beater of a truck to a mega city where these are destined for it would be about as useful as tits on a boar in the City there most people travel alone and at $200 fine camera enforced 25mph city wide speed limit. They just mail the speeding tickets with no limit on the number per day. Oh and if you bring th at beast to midtown Manhattan it’s also $25 or higher congestion charge each time you enter ,plus $12 at the tunnels inbound or the GW bridge or the Narrows no toll pass it’s $24 on the bridges. You get the point they say right in the beginning these are designed for dense urban gridlock traffic where they will never meet a speeding dully. The key here is two of these fit side by side in a standard lane and four fit in the footprint shadow of a SUV. They also can nose in park to the curb quadrupling parking spots on the curb. These are quads they compete with two and three wheelers not cars. They offer protection from the elements and marginally better crash protection vs a tuk tuk but way better than a motorcycle,or a ebike or pedal bike. That’s that they should be compared too. Pedal bikes are everywhere in NYC, same for Ebikes. L.A.,San Francisco,Las Vegas, Austin, any college town, New Orleans all have dense cores full of people on two wheelers. No one said these were for flyover country and frankly urbanites don’t care one bit about flyover country.
I split my time between my land and one of my more urban properties or airbnb/vrbo/short term rental condos in the urban cores of what megacity I happen to be in that month. Give me a quad with A.C. And heat over a ebike,escooter, or motorcycle any day of the week in winter NYC or summer New Orleans or Vegas. Make them peer to peer by the hour or by the minute rentals like Bird scooters , or Uber Ebikes and scooters. Drop it off at a curb and walk away check in and out with the app. Austin, New Orleans and Vegas all gave 25mph urban core speed limits same for D.C. And Philly.