The NARO Taxi will provide an alternative for those individuals who value time and need to travel around our cities to tight schedule.
A large proportion of taxi trade is with single occupancy, thus the NARO taxi will offer a highly efficient solution.
Statistics show that City of London vehicle speeds at peak times are 3mph for passenger cars, 5mph for buses and conventional taxis, but 15mph for dispatch riders. Having the same footprint as a dispatch bike, the NARO taxi could reduce journey times by a third.
NARO is a fully enclosed, two-seat four-wheel vehicle with the banking action of a motorbike to prevent it tipping over when cornering. The vehicle has the footprint of a motorcycle yet is taller than most MPV's — this provides the driver with the visibility to see and plan ahead when moving through traffic. This ability to plan, together with a significant road presence, greatly improves the safety of the vehicle.
NARO is one third the weight of a typical European saloon and has half the frontal area. Hence its power demand is a quarter of that required for today's passenger cars resulting in ultra high efficiency.
The fully enclosed cabin provides passenger-car levels of safety protection (e.g. airbags, ABS, etc) and comfort.
Dimensions Length - 2.50 m
Width - 1.00 m
Height - 1.70 m
Dry weight - 300 kg
Performance
0-60 mph - 12sec
top speed - 85 mph
fuel consumption - 100mpg
CO2 emissions - 60g/km
Powertrain
engine - single cylinder, 4 valve, gasoline
capacity - 400 cc
max power - 20bhp
transmission - automatic - CVT
Suspension
free leaning design with patented roll and adaptive
steer system
front: double wishbone rear: independent trailing link
Safety
extruded aluminium passenger cell mounted on a
carbon fibre platform
Footprint of a bike . . . . . when not tilting.
But when tilted its wider. OK . .so is a bike.
But the 1 meter formula is constantly trying to justify itself on hte 1 meter thing and in reality 1 meter is not enough rom for it.
Oh and it's super un-environmentally friendly as the weight of all the hydraulics needed to make it tilt bang it's weight up to near 1 tonne and it only works if you have NO BAGS.
Otherwise . . . . get on a BIKE.
What a waste of money!
I have some pictures of Student rubbish that can equal this.
More stuff that will never see the light of day.
I don't understand this 1 meter wide magic formula!
I ride a bike and it is not 1 meter wide and I have trouble getting through traffic sometimes. And how exactely does making the vehicle small reduce conjestion?
All it does is compress the traffic jam. Now instead of one car behiond the other you have a race grid of two cars abreast for half the distance. Now when the lights change it's a drag race to get into the first corner. - oh but they are all slow heavy - due to the hydraulics - so now the bikes out perform them like crazy and you've got the most dangerous situation of all. 20 unobservant self absorbed individualls that can't drive playing bumper cars around london. in vehicles that are instantly UNSAFE if the tilting mechanism has a fault.
At leas if your power steering fails you can still stear the car and it doesn't suddenly want to flip over at every curve. . . Not so with this pile.
And just look at those crumple zones.
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