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Offline dreadnought110

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What do you reckon??
« on: July 04, 2008, 07:05:29 »
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Re: What do you reckon??
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2008, 07:47:45 »
Totally pointless...

Its going to cost £125K :shock:

So 99.9% of us will not be able to afford it... and if you can you can afford it you can afford to buy run and tax a pertrol RR!

So in my eyes totally pointless!
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Re: What do you reckon??
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2008, 12:44:30 »
I can see it selling to the urban 4x4 crowd, particularly the Chelsea types. £125k puts it well beyond the reach of those of us who don't get a hefty yearly bonus and a 150 mile range is useless to me, especially if it needs to recharge for six hours after that.

The Tesla Roadster is the future. An electric car that you'd actually want to drive for fun. Chassis by Lotus, 220 mile range and 3.9 seconds 0-60. http://www.teslamotors.com/

If anyone seriously expects electric cars to catch on, they need to be like the Tesla, not that ghastly little hair-shirted plastic "G-Whiz" thing.
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Re: What do you reckon??
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2008, 13:54:15 »
Quote from: Disco Matt on July 04, 2008, 12:44:30
I can see it selling to the urban 4x4 crowd, particularly the Chelsea types. £125k puts it well beyond the reach of those of us who don't get a hefty yearly bonus and a 150 mile range is useless to me, especially if it needs to recharge for six hours after that.

The Tesla Roadster is the future. An electric car that you'd actually want to drive for fun. Chassis by Lotus, 220 mile range and 3.9 seconds 0-60. http://www.teslamotors.com/

If anyone seriously expects electric cars to catch on, they need to be like the Tesla, not that ghastly little hair-shirted plastic "G-Whiz" thing.

by Lotus - it will never never leave  the garage - so yes, very economical :twisted:
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Re: What do you reckon??
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2008, 14:55:20 »
Well, it doesn't mention Lotus on their website so I'm not 100% sure now, but I could have sworn I read somewhere that they had Lotus sort the handling out. I know Lotus do a fair bit of that sort of work for other manufacturers.
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Re: What do you reckon??
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2008, 15:41:50 »
I can just imagen seeing the first ele -rr bogged down to its axle's and the driver crying out for a geni
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Re: What do you reckon??
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2008, 10:49:37 »
yeah ill bet its great off road. and think of the winching power with those batteries!

Not sure i would like to go wading in it though.
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Re: What do you reckon??
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2008, 17:12:26 »
The discussion about it/biodiesel is interesting http://www.autocar.co.uk/forums/t/2212.aspx
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Re: What do you reckon??
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2008, 09:07:37 »
How can a car that needs mains power to charge be enviromently freindy the more people that buy them the more power stations we need to charge them. Me thinks i will stick to my v8 and lpg
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Re: What do you reckon??
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2008, 12:11:09 »
It would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that the 'joe public sheep' seem to get totally sold on these ideas!
So instead of a vehicle having one power source suddenly it has to have two (just to get you home), which will weigh more use more manufacturing resources etc etc. Look at the Prius: The battery manufacturing processes are so posionous that the area around the factory is a total wasteland that looks like the surface of another airless planet!
How very green that is.

Bring back 5 star I say (not the group, silly). The kids of today seem on the whole a darn sight more stupid than in my days of high octane, high lead content fuel, and that was the reason quote for it's demise.
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