Is This The Car of Your Future?

ChicoER Gate ^ | 5/3/10 | Chuck Wolk

[Tom Hawks]

With everyone pumping oil out of the Gulf of Mexico except for America, it would seem like the environmental wackos are getting their wish. Many Americans are finding it more and more difficult to pay for the high price of gasoline forced upon us by a government caused lack of oil supply. What we may soon be forced to drive is something similar to a vehicle I saw in a museum when I was stationed in Germany back in the mid "70"s as a soldier. It was a funny looking three wheeled vehicle produced by the Messerschmitt Company.

The Messerschmitt Aircraft Company went into business in 1923, but because they produced the popular Bf-109 fighter plane for the Nazis during WWII, the German democratic government disallowed them from manufacturing any aircraft after the war was over. So from the end of the war until the 1960's, it was limited to producing sewing machines, pre-fab housing, automobile parts, and by the 1950's they began manufacturing an automobile.

The car that the Messerschmitt company is mostly remembered for is the Messerschmitt KR-200 three-wheeler, which had a distinctive bubble canopy. The vehicle was designed by the famous aircraft engineer Fritz Fend, and it was manufactured at Messerschmitt's aircraft factory. This fuel efficient vehicle was powered byan air-cooled 199cc 1-cylinder, 2-stroke that developed 10 bhp at 5250 RPM. From February 1955 to December 1966, there were a total of 16,000 Messerschmitt KR-200's produced.

These three-wheeled vehicles retailed for around 2,500 DM's which made the KR-200 a considerable success when you consider the way Europe was still the economically struggling from the ravages of the war. Eventually the demand for basic economical transportation in Germany and other European nations began to diminish with the economic recovery that took place in the 1960's. When sales drastically dropped, the company was forced to cease production of their economical three-wheeling KR-200. Soon it became nothing more than a collectors item or museum exhibit.

44 years later the commuters of the world are again struggling economically as they try to get the biggest bang for their buck. Along with the current financial struggles, we in America are also stuck with a political regime that has bought into the Great Global Warming Swindle hook line and sinker. With the Obama regime and his anti capitalist Democrat friends in congress refusal to allow for proper oil drilling in areas like ANWR where we know it exists is just adding to the fuel shortage and higher prices at the pumps. So like it or not, American commuters are being forced to buy more unsafe, yet economically sound vehicles, or go broke driving around to do their business.

The New Volkswagen Spartan

Which brings me to the new Volkswagen Spartan. A vehicle that was designed to get the the maximum amount of mileage from a liter of gasoline. The Spartan could very well be the prototype for the type of vehicle the American commuters will be driving in the future. For a low price tag of $600, the Chinese people will be able to purchase a Spartan.This little car is no toy, and it's.....

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[Tom Hawks]

I guess we will all be packing it up to move to the big city so big brother can keep an eye on us as we drive around like robots with dazed looks in our eyes.

I pray for my grandchildren and their children more and more every time I turn on the news.

So Is everyone ready to vote this November?

[Jeff Chandler]

[Dallas59]

[Tom Hawks]

I would say I want one, but I really don’t want to hurry up the inevitable. But it does give new meaning to driving into the future.

[redpoll]

You mean we’ll be allowed to have cars in the future?

[highlander_UW]

I’m not putting my kids in that deathtrap and then match up with semi’s on the freeway. But I’ll cheer the libs for doing so...after all, most of them aren’t having many kids anyway.

[potlatch]

Looks like a subdued ‘smiley face’!! Lol

[Dallas59]

I don’t want to be in one when a city bus hits me.

[frithguild]

I wouldn’t want to be in that rear seat with my legs splayed out to the sides during an accident.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Tough to believe they started with a clean sheet of paper and came up with that.

[mgstarr]

http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-vw-1-liter-car.htm

[ThomasThomas]

Only if it can fly. I was promised flying cars. I still want my flying car. My last great hope was Ron Popeil .

[mgstarr]

[Noumenon]

How about the old BMW Isetta? Who remembers that one?

It's the car that looks like it ought to be emerging from a clown car, one after one.

[Tom Hawks]

I agree, I remember watching the Jetsons and I used to dream about the day we could fly above the frey.

[Teflonic]

[Melas]

Screw the MPG, but I’d buy that Spartan just because it looks cool as hell.

[plinyelder]

No .. 'This' is in your future:

MADE IN CHINA

[colorado tanker]

If the liberals get their way . . .

[RC2]

Kinda sorta. First, you’ll have to get permission from the government to buy one. Then you’ll be placed on a waiting list. Then the government will tell you what make you can buy. Then you’ll have to pay cash. After you get your car, the government will tell you where you can drive it.

Sound familiar? That’s exactly what you went through if you lived in the USSR.