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Originally Posted by Arragonis
@ James - I agree that the ford with Hybrid will do better. But it does rather well with what is very simple technology, in fact pretty much what most of us do on here for free  . And that is tech that can be easily applied to very small cars like those we have in Europe - e.g. the Ford KA which is smaller than the Fiesta. |
Sure, I completely agree. And of course the best economy tech to apply to small cars, IMHO at least, is to make them smaller :-) (My ideal would be something close to the late '60s Lotus Europa.) But the Insight version of Honda's IMA does go in a fairly small car - and at that, it looks as though it was a first cut engineering-wise. There are lots of nooks & crannies of unused space that another design iteration or two could have put to good use.