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Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
Lurker..
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Date: June 25, 2008 10:09AM
Can go 90 mph , looks like a plane, good crash results and tv screens for instruments. Only seats one, but plenty of room to get in and out of in cramped parking spaces.
http://www.aptera.com/
http://www.aptera.com/
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
Lurker..
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Date: June 25, 2008 10:24AM
only available in CA because Lord knows we wouldn't want to save emissions anywhere else. Nice also that you can use HOV lanes with this.
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Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
SRE
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Date: June 25, 2008 12:07PM
If it only seats one, why are there two seats?
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
hillary_clinton
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Date: June 25, 2008 12:16PM
Because you chose to elect a muslim instead of me and now women won't count for shit. It seats a man and his thing, not two people get used to it.
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
Lurker..
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Date: June 25, 2008 01:26PM
SRE Wrote:
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> If it only seats one, why are there two seats?
I think there are two different models. One is completely electric and the other is gas and electric.
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> If it only seats one, why are there two seats?
I think there are two different models. One is completely electric and the other is gas and electric.
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
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Date: June 25, 2008 02:01PM
If I am not mistaken, this is the vehicle that is registered as a motorcycle in order to get around some of the red tape that would otherwise keep it off of the highways. That could be why it is a one-seater instead of a two-seater.
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
Lurker..
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Date: June 25, 2008 02:34PM
Yes, because it has three wheels it is register as a motorcycle, but doesn't require a motorcycle license.
Always amazed at how cars must have this or that and laws require motorists in cars to wear seat belts, but say the word "motorcycle" and regulations get thrown out the window.
Always amazed at how cars must have this or that and laws require motorists in cars to wear seat belts, but say the word "motorcycle" and regulations get thrown out the window.
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
496
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Date: June 25, 2008 04:07PM
Let's see some crash test results.
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
Gravis
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Date: June 25, 2008 04:59PM
496 Wrote:
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> Let's see some crash test results.
there are none, only computer simulations.
this thing is going to explode faster then you can cry, "jihad!"
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
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> Let's see some crash test results.
there are none, only computer simulations.
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Aptera has been working quietly with CD-Adapco and ABAQUS for several months, conducting frontal offset crash test simulations. Using these incredibly powerful tools, we are continually refining and testing our vehicles in software, performing numerous 'virtual crashes' on computers. Our next step is to corroborate the data with live crash tests.
this thing is going to explode faster then you can cry, "jihad!"
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
Lurker..
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Date: June 25, 2008 05:35PM
Crash testing motorcycles, how exciting
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
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Date: June 26, 2008 01:37PM
Lurker.. Wrote:
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> Crash testing motorcycles, how exciting
I bought an Aptera and all I got was this gaping head wound.
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> Crash testing motorcycles, how exciting
I bought an Aptera and all I got was this gaping head wound.
Re: Screw OIl - Aptera - New cool Hybrid available in CA
Posted by:
Q
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Date: July 03, 2008 08:52AM
It looks like a refugee from "The Spy Who Loved Me." And not in a cool spy sense - in a designed-in-1976 sense.