RUMCars Forum
General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on July 27, 2010, 12:18:17 PM
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Seems to have been relatively little coverage of this in the media so far. £6000, 660cc, 74mpg, seats three adults.
http://www.gordonmurraydesign.com/t25.php (http://www.gordonmurraydesign.com/t25.php)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8771000/8771124.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8771000/8771124.stm)
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/06/28/murray.green.car.launch/?fbid=BYPAJFjzSYD#fbid=wLaQwHgIp3w (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/06/28/murray.green.car.launch/?fbid=BYPAJFjzSYD#fbid=wLaQwHgIp3w)
You can bet being from Gordon Murray, this will be fantastic to drive.
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No politician has seen it yet! 'Look I'm green, greener than the Mighty Mekon'. We are green because we are envious and want to play with one. Except young Root who is sea sick after playing Peels in the bath! He might wish to explain that to those not at the RUM weekend.
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Heinkel front, Smart Car back. Looks quite funky!
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Fab car , I want one please ......
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The CNN report says that with a top speed of "just 80 mph" it will not be troubling many speed cameras. Er, just where in UK, many other countries, and quite a lot of the USA and Canada can you legally drive at 80? Most speed cameras that I have encountered are in urban/suburban areas where the speed limit is 30-60 mph. Those journalists!
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The CNN report says that with a top speed of "just 80 mph" it will not be troubling many speed cameras. Er, just where in UK, many other countries, and quite a lot of the USA and Canada can you legally drive at 80? Most speed cameras that I have encountered are in urban/suburban areas where the speed limit is 30-60 mph. Those journalists!
The great Speed Camera scam. Swindon turned off the cameras to save the Council money since Brown took all the fines centrally. Big fuss from Government and pressure groups with dire warnings of speeding, higher accident rates, death and destruction. As I have always maintained the result was less accidents because people now concentrate on driving rather than panicking about a camera thus creating an accident that need not be there. Swindon now has proper accidents if you like but overall less than if the cameras were on.
Oxfordshire is now looking to turn its cameras off for the same reason. They fund the infrastructure and make a loss on it. These things are mainly there for revenue not to make the road safer. There are exceptions. So maybe these cars will be safe from cameras after all. I would be more concerned if they can handle potholes myself. Driving a Schmitt round here is damn hard work and I am convinced Oxford is at least a mile further than it used to be as I have to drive round holes. Bit like East Germany when the wall came down. Bonds and those cars with really small wheels must really suffer.