At 11:05 PM 12/3/02 -0600, The Fool wrote:
The world's first '1-liter' car licensed for road use resembles a sports car more than a typical research vehicle in appearance. Since the concept calls for a reduced frontal area to minimize exposure to the airstream, the 3.65 m (12 ft.) long body is exceptionally narrow and low-built. Developed in the wind tunnel and built entirely from composite carbon-fiber reinforced material, it has a width of only 1.25 m (49.2 inches) and is just over a meter high (39 inches). The body is unpainted in order to save weight. The reinforced plastic outer skin conceals a space frame that is not constructed from aluminum but from magnesium, an even lighter metal.
And when an SUV driver yakking away on a cell phone fails to see it, what remains of car and driver will fit in a one-liter container . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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