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Originally Posted by stillsearching
Originally titled "why dont we have bubblecars yet?"
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Mostly for the very same reasons as the missing boattail.
The bubbles have lots of interior volume
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The automakers are too dumb, they want something that they think 18 year old kids will find stylish and sexy, whereas what I want is a way to drop drag from 0.30 (where it seems to be fairly well pinned) to something like 0.159 like the 235mpg VW 1 Litre instead,
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The VW 1L and XL show they aren't dumb
They can do it - they just doubt the market is ready to accept their solutions.
VW / Audi tried with the Lupo and A2 3 Liter (per 100km) cars, and effectively failed as they didn't sell that many.
That surely makes any company cautious.
However, these cars are more in demand now, than they ever were when new !
VW is trying again, with the up! CNG (79 g/km CO2, that's Prius C territory).
A brave try in what's very much a niche market in most countries.
Fiat has the lowest overall CO2 output in Europe, yet the company is in shambles .
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Or are the car shapes we have actually pretty good
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If they were, it wouldn't be so easy to ecomod them, would it ?