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Which I stumbled onto after viewing what was behind the thumbnail of this: (see next post, did not show up in this one...!)
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Bizarre oriental tadpole trike.
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Just A Car Guy: I like it, for the looks, and ability to park anywhere. I bet it needs more power though The contour of the nose is like a [scaled down ] BMW Mini, but look at that cabin. Compound curve glazing for a aerodynamic blister. 1954 Ford Skyliner got nothin' in the three-piece windshield. 1949 Nash Aeroflyte got nuthin' on that right-sized grille opening. No indication of make or model, there may be a tiny badge below the hood. edit: Tiny silver time attack dive planes.
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1) That basic body would be problematic though, as Buchheim et al. found out when they tried to do the same thing to create the VW 2000. 2) The severely-slanted windshield created intolerable forward vision light refraction. 3) Same at the rear. 4) From Elliott G. Reid's 1935 aero research at Stanford University, we can anticipate that the full-width rear track will cost them. Losing the plan-view taper down the flanks cost Reid 16% in added drag.
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Honda's Got a Whimsical Vision for the Self-Driving Future Honda's project stars seven whimsical vehicular prototypes, each the size of a remote-controlled car and photographed in vivid, diorama-like landscapes. Yeah, a motorhome that leans in the corners...that won't be intimidating on 101. I like the unaerodynamic six-wheel swamp buggy.
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There's probably many corners like the illustration where oncomming tall traffic is going to rip the top off. I wonder how they compensate for that because I saw people doing really stupid motorhome stuff last time I was there towing my Casita.
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But good -- sarcasm is the hardest thing for the Facebooks of the world to cope with. Let's go brain-dumb. If two of those met at speed in a corner, they'd would not slip right past each other.
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