Volkswagen's $600 car gets 258 mpg

.examiner.com ^ | 12-8-10 | examiner

[WOBBLY BOB]

This $600 car is no toy and is ready to be released in China next year. The single seater aero car totes VW (Volkswagen) branding. Volkswagen did a lot of very highly protected testing of this car in Germany, but it was not announced until now where the car would make it's first appearance.

[Ole Okie]

I want to see the windshield wiper.

That's $600 extra.

[Theo]

Here’s more info about this vehicle, which may sell for closer to $50k, if it’s ever actually built:

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Green-Cars/Search-Results/Green-News/VW-to-relaunch-one-litre-eco-car/?content-block=0

[Senator Pardek]

Whoa - with all that saved cash, a guy could pay a woman to talk to him!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Story is 17 months old. Price is likely a hoax. US availability, none.

[HeadOn]

Pretty neat. Please note - I am NOT criticizing, just asking an honest question.

I cannot find anything current in Google. - This was published in summer of 2009, and has been talked about since 2002... Does anyone know if this thing has hit the market as promised in the article?

[WOBBLY BOB]

if I could get one for $600, I’d buy one.

the US version would probably not be allowed without airbag,ABS, CARB-legal emissions,200 warning labels, and helmets.

[poobear]

Will it pull a boat?

[Sacajaweau]

Your last 258 miles.....

[WOBBLY BOB]

Can I pay her to shut up?

[maggief]

The 2012 Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sport Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAqPMJFaEdY

[TigersEye]

I think the dog goes in the back on a treadmill to get that 258 mpg.
The kids and groceries go in the optional trailer.

[calex59]

See http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/china-eye/2009_06_26/Urban_myth:_three_wheeler_for_China.html for proof that this is an urban legend.

The car pictured here is not a three wheeler.

[WayneS]

I think I’ll get one and drop a large block V-8 in it. It might hurt the gas mileage a bit, but I bet it’d be a real screamer.

Oh, wait a minute... ...a large block V-8 is BIGGER than this car.

[Maine Mariner]

Where do I put me? I am 6’2” and just over 200 pounds.

[Maine Mariner]

Where do I put me? I am 6’2” and just over 200 pounds.

[Frantzie]

I would too. Carbon fiber, German. It is probably safer than the old Beetle or old guys riding Harleys panicking and dropping their bikes.

It is shame Lee Marvin (Wild Ones on a Triumph) is not around to beat these old guys when they drop their bikes. He was a Marine wounded in the Battle of Saipan.

[Conservative Tsunami]

Where do I put me? I am 6’2” and just over 200 pounds.

You'd be pulling the damn thing. Like a rick-shaw.

;-)

[WayneS]

Illegal in nearly every U.S. state.

Why do you say that?

Many states, including Virginia, currently define a motorcycle as simply "...any vehicle with three wheels or fewer in contact with the ground...". So, at the very least they could be registered as a motorcycles (which, by the way, would allow them to be operated in HOV lanes).

Also, legislation is being proposed in Virginia during the upcoming session which will allow 3-wheeled vehicles which are designed to be controlled via a steering wheel and foot operated throttle & brake, and which have a factory supplied roof/top as automobiles.

[WayneS]

Oops.

I made that mistake too.

[WayneS]

There’s also the BMW Isetta from, I think, the 60s and 70s.