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Old 10-31-2010, 10:00 PM   #160 (permalink)
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there's plenty of pork on the 3500 lb (4 seater) volt They can't seem to bring themselves to design a car on a diet. A manual gearbox isn't a huge space/weight penalty in your average car, the edison2 team used one to make a 800 lb 4 passenger (non hybrid too) xprize winner:

http://www.edison2.com/tech-specs/
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