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I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the Green Cross Code.
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Saw this on the news a day or so ago. Apparently going into production this year. www.theaircar.com/Air powered car. ![](http://www.motordeaire.com/Img/FurgoNaranja.jpg) 200 km range. 140km/h and only 1.5 euro's per tank!!! Smart that they are going for the delivery van market in Paris, since consumers can be reluctant to take up new tech while courier firms will jump at the savings. I guess development will see the engine only getting more efficient and i like the touches like using the cool air exhaust to power the air con and including an electric pump for on board recharging.
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now THIS could be the futurestealthstylz
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Thats quite cool. The thing that scares me most about these things is the lack of noise. I've had loads of people walk out into the road when i've been driving a normal car only to hear it and jump out of the way. With a silent car I can imagine lots of swerving going on.
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i hope not, id rather castrate myself with a boiled egg slicer than drive that horror. ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) why cant people who develop this type of thing put it into a cortina shell or something else cool? ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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I was pondering something like this at xmas...I was reading old Top Gear mags (first few years) and it had miniature engines (little V12s and stuff) powered by compressed CO2...and I wondered if it could be scaled up...
Great stuff.
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I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the Green Cross Code.
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I hope not, id rather castrate myself with a boiled egg slicer than drive that horror. ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) why cant people who develop this type of thing put it into a cortina shell or something else cool? ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) because designing a car is a massively expensive and difficult undertaking. Even the big boys get it wrong more than right. I guess that once the courier companies have proved the market then they will be able to afford decent designers. One of these in a smart shell would be good. I can imagine the oil companies being unimpressed. I hope the designer remembers to look both ways when crossing the road.
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Last Edit: Jan 7, 2008 19:38:24 GMT by Shortcut
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I've always wondered that too, why people who endeavour to build the fuel system of the future insist on bodying it with a childrens' pedal car. First the G-Wiz and now that. Doesn't even need to be a cool retro shell, something that doesn't look like a crossbreed between a Renault Minibus and Bond bug, but melted. But the mechanical side of things sounds like a cool idea, probably the basis of a good little city car or van. If you put a body on it that people wouldn't mind being seen in would do.
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Last Edit: Jan 7, 2008 19:59:42 GMT by Rev
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Doesn't even need to be a cool retro shell, something that doesn't look like a crossbreed between a Renault Minibus and Bond bug, but melted. LOL yeah, seems our generation caught up in a world of daft extreme compomises. ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) wierd looking thing, crazy tech ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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![](http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/stoppitandtidyup/Avatars%20etc/reansigys.jpg) it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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"Back off man, I'm a Scientist" - Dr. Peter Venkman
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Looks like a Renner Twingo that's had Vanessa Feltz sat on the roof. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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It really doesn't look like it should be one car!
Looks like it designed and built in two halves by completely different people, then the two halves were offered together it didn't fit. So instead of starting again they bodged it together with gaffer tape and filler and hoped no one would notice!
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But interesting to see if it catches on. Wonder if we'll ever see air-powered conversions on here.
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I've always thought that when all the petrol really is drained/banned and air/hydrogen/whatever powered cars are brought to the fore, wouldn't it be really cool if you could buy new old cars.
So, buy any existing car (with a current MoT) and instead of buying a factory-fresh motor, take it to your marque-related dealership and, for the price of a new car (depending what you've brought them) have it restored and fitted with a new lump, brakes, running gear, airbag, computer shizzle etc. That would be awesome.
I think there's a film that suggests that - it's the weird one with the astronauts in.
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i just looked on the cliky bit, looked at the engine and its only a cold running steam engine, so instead of stoking the fire you you go to B.O.C and stick another CO2 bottle on. ;D but heres the problem how can you TAX a car that produces a very green gas, Oxygen
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what the fcuk have you done lately
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You can't hence the free 'tax' on that new Polo that produces virtually nothing.
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I've always thought that when all the petrol really is drained/banned and air/hydrogen/whatever powered cars are brought to the fore, wouldn't it be really cool if you could buy new old cars. So, buy any existing car (with a current MoT) and instead of buying a factory-fresh motor, take it to your marque-related dealership and, for the price of a new car (depending what you've brought them) have it restored and fitted with a new lump, brakes, running gear, airbag, computer shizzle etc. That would be awesome. I think there's a film that suggests that - it's the weird one with the astronauts in. I'm really excited by this idea, and not just for cars, this is how a truly waste conscious (idealish) world would work IMO. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) top idea. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) Pity it wouldn't gel with our current world.
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![](http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/stoppitandtidyup/Avatars%20etc/reansigys.jpg) it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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I just looked on the cliky bit, looked at the engine and its only a cold running steam engine, so instead of stoking the fire you you go to B.O.C and stick another CO2 bottle on. ;D but heres the problem how can you TAX a car that produces a very green gas, Oxygen In light of the standard of politicians we have, they'll manage to tax it somehow. The tax would include breathing, and for good reason if you're a politician or enviromental lobbyist. All us selfish humans are wasting perfectly good oxygen that could be breathed by baby seals and tiger cubs, and we even have the cheek to produce CO2 when we breath out. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) ;D I really am expecting the extreme enviromental lobby any day now to suggest genocide as a way of cutting down CO2 emissions, they get madder and more stalinist by the day. And I'm only half kidding. ;D
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I'm sure various stories have been on that aircar site for the last 8-10 years. I'll believe it when I see one plastered with YoSushi logos delivering in the UK.
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Thats quite cool. The thing that scares me most about these things is the lack of noise. I've had loads of people walk out into the road when i've been driving a normal car only to hear it and jump out of the way. With a silent car I can imagine lots of swerving going on. Matt Loud pipes save lives!!!! I was nearly killed the other day by a Honda Primus
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now THIS could be the futureBenzBoy
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I've not fully read through how it all works but... how is the air compressed? By a fossil-fuel powered generator I would imagine. Same goes for electric cars... the electricity is generated by a coal / nuclear powerstation. Not really solving the problem, just moving it elsewhere. ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) And yes, the designs of these eco-mobiles are truly awful. I agree with Shortcut, that good design costs money, but also I fear that they're designed for hairy-armpitted hippies and the green brigade. And they're not the ones that need to be convinced. Design a big, awesome looking, tarmac-shredding zero-emissions car and I for one will be more accepting.
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I've not fully read through how it all works but... how is the air compressed? By a fossil-fuel powered generator I would imagine. Same goes for electric cars... the electricity is generated by a coal / nuclear powerstation. Not really solving the problem, just moving it elsewhere. ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) And yes, the designs of these eco-mobiles are truly awful. I agree with Shortcut, that good design costs money, but also I fear that they're designed for hairy-armpitted hippies and the green brigade. And they're not the ones that need to be convinced. Design a big, awesome looking, tarmac-shredding zero-emissions car and I for one will be more accepting. But the efficiency of the engine is greater so the pollution caused by the pump is much less, plus centralised pollution is much easier to clean up than distributed pollution. The design is as it is because the market is immature. Once it matures ands expands into the mainstream then the designs will evolve to accomodate the mainstream motorist. In the mean time the fuel cost saving for city courier companies is so great that I can't see them being able to ignore it. This one looks better... ![](http://www.motordeaire.com/Img/Atrevete.jpg)
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