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Thread: F1 designer Murray unveils lightweight city car

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rockefella View Post
    The revelation here is not the car itself but the manufacturing process that will allow for great flexibility and cost savings.
    Agreed. I think this is a huge step forward towards automotive efficiency and essentially it accomplishes this by taking a huge step back. The beauty of this car is its simplicity: it doesn't have thermo-regulating breaks to cool and recharge the lithium-ion battery-powered electro-drive units; it doesn't need that. What makes this car an efficient people-mover is its minimalistic size and weight. This car is efficient for the same reason an old Mini Cooper was: it's small, lightweight, and doesn't require that much energy to move around--back to basics. This is the Occam's razor to the question of automotive efficiency: "the simplest explanation is usually the correct one".

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    Parking - Smarts do nose in all the time over here.
    It's the sensible way to park these too.
    "A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'

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    Has anyone seen one of these in person yet?

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