Does this car exist?

• ceecookie

  29 Aug 05, 17:08

  
• FireIce

  29 Aug 05, 17:09

  if it does not exist how come u can post the pic of it?
• ceecookie

  29 Aug 05, 17:13

  i mean is it available as a model to everyone?or was it custom built
• c0ol_blu3z

  29 Aug 05, 17:46

  Originally posted by ceecookie:

  

  wow wow this is awesome!!!
• Kr0n

  29 Aug 05, 18:02

  That is the Rinspeed Presto. Swiss-made car
• carmour

  29 Aug 05, 22:15

  It gotta be damn heavy, otherwise its gonna break when go over hump.
  
  
• ditzy

  29 Aug 05, 22:22

  Yeah, just look at the wheel positions. Going thru bumps have got to hurt.
• Steph84

  30 Aug 05, 01:32

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Yeah, just look at the wheel positions. Going thru bumps have got to hurt.

  how come??? can explain?
• I-like-flings(m)

  30 Aug 05, 01:34

  Originally posted by carmour:

  It gotta be damn heavy, otherwise its gonna break when go over hump.
  
  

  or it gota be damn light... then everytime which the hump, the driver just have to get out of the car and carry it over!!!!
• wbucket

  30 Aug 05, 09:02

  Originally posted by Steph84:

  how come??? can explain?

  Maybe because of its long wheel base and low body. At some point of time, the car is going to be having fron wheels in front of hump and rear behind, then the hump in the middle. If hump too tall, the car become see-saw.
• ditzy

  30 Aug 05, 21:51

  Originally posted by Steph84:

  how come??? can explain?

  Here's the mechanical fundamentals behind it:
  
  Considering motion in a profile plane, the vehicle is a compound pendulum. If the front wheels strike a bump, a reaction will be felt by passengers unless the center of percussion is located at or near the rear axle. The reverse is true as the rear wheels strike a bump. A reaction will be felt unless the center of percussion is at or near the front axle.
  
  As a consequence, good vehicle design places the centre of percussion about one axle with the center of oscilation about the other.
  
  Got it off my mechanical vibrations textbook.
• ceecookie

  31 Aug 05, 17:22

  but then if the car is extended then the front couple will have no more seats as seen in the pic?And the rear and front lights look like Merc type right?
• wbucket

  1 Sep 05, 08:20

  Originally posted by ceecookie:

  but then if the car is extended then the front couple will have no more seats as seen in the pic?And the rear and front lights look like Merc type right?

  You meant the rear having not seats in the compact version, right?
• ceecookie

  1 Sep 05, 13:22

  Originally posted by wbucket:

  You meant the rear having not seats in the compact version, right?

  i mean when the car is extended....u see the rear having seats but not the front...look at the first pic..
• wbucket

  1 Sep 05, 15:28

  Originally posted by ceecookie:

  i mean when the car is extended....u see the rear having seats but not the front...look at the first pic..

  First picture? Isn't the 2 guy sitting in the front seats?
• SBS9828X

  1 Sep 05, 15:32

  cool it can retract itself
• ceecookie

  1 Sep 05, 17:26

  Originally posted by wbucket:

  First picture? Isn't the 2 guy sitting in the front seats?

  oh ya hor.... i tot dont have
  
  and what if got ppl sitting behind...then they become squashed when it retract?
• seraG15

  2 Sep 05, 01:14

  looks like the SMART car...
• carbikebus

  2 Sep 05, 06:44

  There's one occasion where i saw a three-wheeled car(Not Bike)in form of orange colours(SFGXXXX)
• furideriku

  2 Sep 05, 07:41

  look like mini cooper without the cover !