Thin Car Travels Far (235 Miles Per Gallon Vehicle, Can Travel Up To 70 MPH)

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[Recovering_Democrat]

Amazing how capitalism works, isn't it? This was built without Congressional or Governmental mandate--and if there is a market for such a car, it'll sell.

I wonder why the environmentalists aren't saying Volkswagon's engineers are being threatened with death by Exxon and Standard Oil.

[RightWhale]

This vehicle wouldn't even finish its first litre before it was run over by a tailgater getting to a K-Mart bluelight [all the time] special.

[general_re]

[Sacajaweau]

Weight: 588 lbs

Let's see you hit another car with that thing.

Good Bye

Sac

[Lev]

http://www.vwvortex.com/news/04_02/04_17/front2.jpg:

[COBOL2Java]

You forgot the photo:

[KarlInOhio]

I think you can fit three of these in the wheel well of a typical US SUV.

[martin_fierro]

FOOEY!

[COBOL2Java]

Yeah, but can you pick up chicks with it?

[Centurion2000]

So basically this is an enclosed 2 man motorcycle.

[jlogajan]

Let's see you hit another car with that thing.

"Hit" kind of overstates the interaction.

[DoughtyOne]

The car looks pretty big until you see it on the road with other vehicles. Then it likes tiny.

[Free the USA]

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[nightdriver]

Re: Post #5, Look at the line of cars that this vehicle is holding up!

[Dan Day]

Heh -- a friend of mine was in the market for a car one time and decided she wanted something a little different than the usual used car, so we checked out some ads in the paper for classic 1940's and early 1950's cars, like the one in your picture.

Yeah, they look cool, but during test drives we discovered why they're not real popular any more: THEY DRIVE LIKE GREAT BLOODY PIGS.

Can't accelerate, can't stop, can't corner. Load 4000 pounds of lead onto your average riding lawnmower, and that's what it felt like driving these beasts.

It's incredible how far automotive technology has come in 50 years. The lowliest econo-box today vastly outperforms (by every measure) the most refined (for their time) cars from half a century ago.

[Dead Corpse]

8.5 horsepower? My lawmower has more HP than that.

Find me one of these:

If only they could make one that got decent Miles Per Gallon, instead of Gallons Per Mile.

[Dan Day]

Yeah, but can you pick up chicks with it?

Only very petite ones.

Hmm, that may not be such a bad thing, come to think of it.

[Johnny Gage]

As a firefighter, I wouldn't even go near this car once it started burning, especially with all the magnesium in it.

About the only thing I'd do is to order a dumptruck load of sand to be poured over it to smother it.

Time Out: 16:40
KMG-365

[Willie Green]

The car looks pretty big until you see it on the road with other vehicles. Then it likes tiny.

[Dan Day]

In fact, he's not terribly specific about performance, other than to say that top speed exceeds 70 mph and that it's "not very quick in accelerating."

I'll bet that's an understatement...

Hmm, let's see... Using the figures they give for it, and for the Miata, the Miata has 4.12 times the horsepower-per-pound rating as the "1-liter" car.

That means this thing will accelerate about as fast as a Mazda Miata which is towing three other (dead) Miatas behind it...