[tcb] Re: Fw: Fwd: New single seat VW
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:35:23 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks Gerald. I knew someone out there would have some straight poop on this
thing.
--- On Tue, 6/16/09, Gerald Livingston <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Gerald Livingston <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Fw: Fwd: New single seat VW
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 2:05 AM
The pictures are from 2002. It was a concept car back then. I'd have to see
something with an official VW seal to believe it is going into production.
It achieved real world 245+ mpg by traveling at 45mph for several hundred
miles, with an escort, on the nearly perfect road surface that is the German
Autobahn. 100+ mpg in daily use should be a possibility though.
It uses a single cylinder diesel as a power plant.
I don't believe the $600 price tag because, if I remember correctly, when I
first read about it many years ago it's made mostly of carbon fiber panels to
reduce weight. If they've changed to a less expensive material and increased
the weight then the fuel economy will also drop.
I don't think there's enough room inside to fit all the safety gear that would
be required for U.S. sale anyway a normal sized airbag would blow that little
cab apart. And if they do manage to make it road legal for over here the
version we get will be so altered and heavy that it will just be a $30,000
novelty vehicle that gets 50 - 60 mpg at a poor max speed of 60mph
Gerald
P.S.
The original articles I read also stated that it is a 2 seater, not single
seater. The seats are "inline: like a cockpit. Passenger behind the driver.
That also means there is room for some groceries if one uses it for flitting
around town after getting freaked out by being blown off the highway the first
time a semi (or maybe even just a VW bus) passes them.
sammie smith wrote:
> I was going to forward this anyway to the list to see if anyone else had
> heard of it. Someone beat me to it. But it's gotta be a joke/hoax right.
> Might be a VW concept car but other than that I don't believe any of it.
> Anyone else have any ideas or have heard of it other than on the net?
>
> --- On *Sun, 6/14/09, jtakshak /<jtakshak@xxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
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> From: jtakshak <jtakshak@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Fw: Fwd: New single seat VW
> To: bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, June 14, 2009, 4:54 PM
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> *Sent:* Sunday, June 14, 2009 3:57:58 PM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Starr <emailbobstarr@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Roger Escobedo <rkescobedo@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Stacy Gore
> <st_gore@xxxxxxxxx>; Alan Starr <skruball@xxxxxxxxx>; Joe Starr
> <jtakshak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mark Lipscomb <lipscombx@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 3:53 pm
> Subject: FW: New single seat VW
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> /*******************************/
>
> _New ride_
>
> If you could go to Shanghai for a
>vacation, buy two
> or more of these cars, one for your wife and one for
> yourself, and one for each of your kids, have them
> shipped to Canada and still spend less money than if
> you bought a car in Canada. Getting the car(s) into
> USA , still an ordeal. 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
> This is a single seated car 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
> *C
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