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You know the more I look at it the more half-cocked it gets... I mean if you've got a product, that you've put all that time into, and that you want to draw attention to, would you: (A) Head down to the local sticky-sign makers with £100 for some nice looking cut-vinyl (B) Hastily paint your own slogans on, looking like it's been done by a 12 year old.  archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2006/7/5/230652.html |
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Last Edit: Jan 1, 2007 9:52:51 GMT by arthurbrown
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I think its an example of someone with a 'zany' (i.e. dismal) sense of 'humour'. I'm sure he's not really expecting £110k for it. I say fair play to the lad for building it, even if it has no room for an engine now. I wonder if it has a working steering rack?
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What. a. tool. What more can be said outside what everybody's already mentioned? Is he just mental?
Somebody is going to end up showing him a Ligier and he's going to realise that there are already small wibblepoo cars available for people that want them. The complete lack of crash protection could be a detriment to its success.
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someone mail him this for god's sake!  |
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Didn't someone already invent the smart car to reduce congestion?
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I actually contacted him, just to make doubly sure it wasn't a joke. It's not. Top Gear? TOP. GEAR?  ?? What are they going to do aside from rip the pi$$ out of it, or blow it up, or hurl it out of a cannon. Or do all of those things, which is for the best really. Much as I dislike smart cars you have to concede that their design is pretty good and the 'safety cell' is a wonder. The Carver Trike is the 'narrow' solution to the problem with 'one-behind-the-other' seating and is a radical concept. Even the Ligier / Axiom monstrosities have certain merits - length/width ratio makes them at least a little bit stable, and some are fuel cell tech, no? ( ) Carved up metro = dead before it's even begun. |
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what has this guy been taking??? he cant seriously think hes stumbled across the answer to congestion by hacking up a metty. what an absolute plank. its about as useful as a one legged man in a ar$e kicking contest.
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mothers with babies!!!!!!!
I'm sorry but i wouldnt let either of my 2 kids in a metro, nevermind a amateurly butchered one, now or when they were babies.
chester le street knob jockey.
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Laugh? I nearly cried  |
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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the Bullit car on eBayBenzBoy
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It really is sad to see someone waste so much time and money on such a ludicrous idea. And to take himself so seriously.
Small cars already exist that supposedly ease congestion (personally I don't think smaller cars do all that much for congestion, but still...)
His idea requires the Highway Code to be completely re-written to allow these cars to use one lane side-by-side, which in turn requires everybody to drive one of these things... which won't happen. Ever.
Utter chump.
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Someone send him a link to this thread!
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Its the money, really isnt it? Lets face it, if the buy it now was £110 we`d be thinking he`d done quite well to produce a driveable half width Metro and turned a destined for the crusher special into something genuinely unusual and never done before. (though it needs a bit of finishing off)
But the price - £110k gets you this or a 1973 Carrera RS and enough left over for a couple of nice Cortinas and maybe a 240Z...decisions decisions....
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"Wish me well and Happy New Year"
this statement shows his bigheadedness
The guys going to end up a bankrupt - if I was going to make a micro car - it wouldn't derive from a Metro
- and it would have an engine, and cost less than a three-bed semi
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Last Edit: Jan 2, 2007 19:29:51 GMT by Autofive
Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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His idea requires the Highway Code to be completely re-written to allow these cars to use one lane side-by-side, which in turn requires everybody to drive one of these things... which won't happen. Ever. Utter chump. theres enough trouble with one car in one lane,imagine the chaos with two cars in one lane? tbh i'd rather drive a real car not a chop shop special,i just couldn't feel safe or drive it in daylight for that matter for fear of being recognised ;D |
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If he's serious I worry for him. His eBay advert seems really earnest so I'm guessing he is... Scary.
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just re read the ad. to quote Other advantages include the following uses for the space next to the driver’s seat: - The mother could use this area to strap in a baby carrier. is the man aware there are stringent laws regarding the transporting of children in cars? i don't think the feds would look kindly on a baby carrier "strapped" to the floor.  wonder what his neighbours think? probably the same as us. his ebay id should be caractacus potts. |
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judging by the obvious embarassment of everyone in the photos (check the cruising while stationary shot!) he is a local joke but doesn't realise it. He's a national joke now though.... anyone work for the Sun?
favorite idea is the one that it would be good for teenagers, as they wouldn't be able to tear around at high speeds in it.... they'd be too busy being beaten up for owning it....
old people with poor confidence? don't they already have metros??
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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I've got an idea.
Much like the old days when those light blue Inva-Cars were parked round the outside of football grounds, why not invite all who purchase a Bullitt to come and park down the outside of the strip at Santa Pod to see Fireforce???
That way we get to just what sad cases would be in the market for a thrown-together horror heap of doom, and what's more get to see them all cremated to boot?? :-)
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old people with poor confidence? don't they already have metros?? ive got any idea - why not call it the 'euthanasia' or the 'nearly dead' the - as it looks a bit like a coffin - and offer it in hearing-aid beige or spew green coloured with brass fittings its perfect for the 80+ age group - as it looks like a fooooooking death trap and will be sure to killl its hapless occupant in a crash over 27mph (if it had an engine) |
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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