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Pilot Production Begins For Electric- And Gas-powered Honeycomb-composite Spira4u
- Thread starter BigWarpGuy
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Cache Man
Elio Addict
That is one ugly car. It will not be as stable as the Elio
Specs:
- Type: 2-person foam car
- Class: Three-wheeled motorcycle
- Manufacturer: A & G Technology Co Ltd, Thailand
- Propulsion system: 110cc gas-powered engine
- Top Speed: 70 mph (113 km/h)
- Vehicle range: NA
- Vehicle weight: 302 lbs (137 kg)
- Fuel efficiency: 100 mpg
- Fuel(s): Conventional gasoline
What we like
The unique safety tests: Who needs crash test dummies when you have blow-up dolls and dead swine? In what sound like scenes from Mythbusters, the folks at Spira have run a pair of unique safety tests. In one, they put a150 lb pig carcass behind the wheel and collided it with a 4-ton Hino truck. The pig suffered neither lacerations nor broken bones, but this wasn't enough to avoid being eaten later by the crew.
In another, Spira filled a toy elephant with water and performed the same collision. When the toy did not burst on impact, a roar of approval went up in the long-overlooked inflatable pachyderm community.
The unique safety tests: Who needs crash test dummies when you have blow-up dolls and dead swine? In what sound like scenes from Mythbusters, the folks at Spira have run a pair of unique safety tests. In one, they put a150 lb pig carcass behind the wheel and collided it with a 4-ton Hino truck. The pig suffered neither lacerations nor broken bones, but this wasn't enough to avoid being eaten later by the crew.
In another, Spira filled a toy elephant with water and performed the same collision. When the toy did not burst on impact, a roar of approval went up in the long-overlooked inflatable pachyderm community.
FYI: Aside from mileage, one of their primary goals was to reduce pedestrian deaths, apparently over a million pedestrians a year die in Asia in collisions with vehicles.
BigWarpGuy
Elio Addict
It floats. 
I don't think the Elio will.
I don't think the Elio will.
Following the next Tsunami, the Navy goes in for assistance, only to be bewildered by all the cars driving around the open ocean trying to reach land
Cache Man
Elio Addict
It floats.
I don't think the Elio will.
But with the Elio... I bet the driver will be floating on a cloud once they have it!
Dusty921
Elio Addict
Just what they needed in Taiwan, more things to build houses on. Four of those and you could have a
studio overlooking the Chinese Mainland.
studio overlooking the Chinese Mainland.