Nick Palmer wrote:
Jed Rothwell wrote:-
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I didn't mean to imply they were a good thing!
They would be a good thing if they got the kind of gas mileage you
get with a motorcycle. Frankly, I do not understand why they don't.
They look about as light as a motorcycle, albeit WAY safer and mor
Jed Rothwell wrote:-
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I didn't mean to imply they were a good thing! They are also quite expensive
to service because everything is "shoehorned" in and one has occasionally to
take the whole drivechain out for repairs that would be easy in a more
spacious vehicle - they are however fantastic
Nick Palmer wrote:
Have you seen the Smart super microcar?
http://www.smartusa.com/
These cars are disappointing. They have lousy gas mileage. By the old
EPA standard it was 40 mpg city, 45 mpg highway; by the 2008 standard
it is 33 mpg/city, 41 mpg highway. My 1994 Geo Metro gets that kind
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I rode a Segway at a country fair once - that's rather how I felt. However
the embarrassment probably related to the novelty effect. Have you seen the
Smart super microcar?
http://www.smartusa.com/
Oddly enough it was when I was in Florence that I saw one of these for
the first
Dean Kamen announces his all singing, all dancing, water purifying, power
generating Stirling engine system...
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news4.24.08d.html
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