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Fuel Vapour Car Saw this car today at a Vintage and Classic car show pretty cool. It has 3 wheels and great fuel economy. With it's long shape I thought "What a great car for a fencer. Cheap on fuel and room for you and your fencing bag!"
http://www.fuelvaporcar.com/ Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian
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 Originally Posted by Fencergrl  Saw this car today at a Vintage and Classic car show pretty cool. It has 3 wheels and great fuel economy. With it's long shape I thought "What a great car for a fencer. Cheap on fuel and room for you and your fencing bag!" http://www.fuelvaporcar.com/ Very interesting, but it looks like it will be expensive. Don't let 'em drop it. Don'tlet'emdropit. Stop it... bebop it.
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I suspect it will be until it starts getting massed produced. Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian
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Or until Exxon buys the technology and buries it... Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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Why ale' and not allez?...is allez too French?
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Probably afraid of offending Lesbian-Americans.  Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Probably afraid of offending Lesbian-Americans. Ack! Ack! Ack! My eyes! My cerebral cortex! My sense of humor!
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From the website, it appears that the name is cutesy rendering of the word "allay," meaning to lessen the intensity of something, usually concern.
Silly name, regardless. Just because you have the right, that doesn't mean it is right.
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Impressive.
It's the 0-60 and 1/4 mile numbers that sell it to me.
I'm very interested to know the gritty details behind this claimed 20:1 air/fuel ratio. The preceding post brought to you by Rabid Monk (TM).
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Or until Exxon buys the technology and buries it... Yeah... I agree. It's too bad. For the sake of the planet, we need to stop being so dependent on oil. Yet every time someone comes up with an alternative automobile the patent and the product get bought and destroyed. Not the first time, nor will it be the last (until the last bit of oil has been sucked from the ground).
Perhaps then, all these alternative fuel driven vehicles will re-surface. Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian
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Originally Posted by Rabid Monk Impressive.
It's the 0-60 and 1/4 mile numbers that sell it to me.
I'm very interested to know the gritty details behind this claimed 20:1 air/fuel ratio. There's a means to contact them on the website. Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian
The meek don't want it! ~ sticker on a rock band's guitar
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Hmmmm... interesting.
Aren't there already small cars that have very similar stats?
And the novel tech appears to be an improved fuel injection system.
All very interesting. I wasn't aware there was an automotive Xprize (though that is completely logical). I'll take a look. I like these sorts of things.
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Can't locate any related US or Canadian patents or patent applications for George Parker (1 for windshield wipers, 1 for bumper seat) or Fuel Vapor Technologies.
I wonder what you would be investing in? "a braggart, a rogue, a villaine that fights by the book of arithmatick. Why the dev'l came you betweene us?.."
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Watching it drive, it looked really smooth and it cornered well. It was very quiet (but compared to the big block muscle cars it was surrounded by anything would be). Not much room for storage for it's size, but that depends on how you view it... it looks like a car, but it's classified as a motorcycle. Very eye catching and it looked like a lot of fun to drive. Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian
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I already have a motorcycle.
They charge too much for insurance on them here.
But, to be truthfull, I have a car with almost twice the horsepower, and probably an even greater ratio of torque.
Mind you, it also weighs in at about 950cc per cylinder (and it's a V8).
And it most definately would not make the 1/4 in anything under 18 seconds and about 10 litrs of petrol.
As you might guess, my environmentally-conscientious friend thinks I'm an amoral evil ignorant git.
Still... If they can convince the insurance agencies it's a car, I might be tempted. For the novelty if nothing else. The preceding post brought to you by Rabid Monk (TM).
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Originally Posted by Rabid Monk
But, to be truthfull, I have a car with almost twice the horsepower, and probably an even greater ratio of torque.
Mind you, it also weighs in at about 950cc per cylinder (and it's a V8).
You flat landers are all the same... straight open stretches to fully use all your horsies. Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian
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Originally Posted by Fencergrl You flat landers are all the same... straight open stretches to fully use all your horsies. Well, yes.
If I want to do corners, I'll take my little Honda motorbike out for a spin. Assuming I can even find any decent corners in the first place. The preceding post brought to you by Rabid Monk (TM).
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Me thinks your closest corner would be these http://www.fencing.net/gallery/showp...4/limit/recent
Avoiding a cow doesn't constitute "cornering" Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian
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Oi!
I'm in Manitoba, not Saskabush!
We have curves. We even have hills.
Somewhere... The preceding post brought to you by Rabid Monk (TM).
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