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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DREDIOCK on April 27, 2006, 11:55:42 PM
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(http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/04/atom_supercar/image/introslide.jpg)
Atom (http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2006/id20060417_541401.htm?campaign_id=search)
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a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdkEV-t9jg0)
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The steering wheel is on the wrong side.
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Wake up man, wake up. :D
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=160722
Plenty of good links still there.
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A "Super-Car" needs a windshield so that the hot chicks will want to ride in it and give you good oral conversation while you drive.
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That car looks fun! Though.... i think they need to throw in a water proof driving suit and helm so that I can make it my daily driver!
Haha.
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My Healey has about 450 HP and weighs around 2200 lbs... It has a 331 chevy and 4 speed muncie... all old tech including drum brakes.. I could easily put in a 6 speed that shifts like butter and add 100 hp.... better tires and brakes but it would not be the same car....
The windshield on the Healey folds down and forward.
I raced the fastest street suzzuki they make and it had some mods.... he could not get around me till I was in third gear at over a hundred but then he walked away.
The atom could not be sold here it looks like with all the safety stuff required... if they made it legal... you can figure it will weigh another 500 lbs.
lazs
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That would be really fun to roll. Better yet, slam into a tree. You probably wouldnt even feel it.
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_------____------> Glorified Go-Kart.
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Read the article linked, Lazs. It's being manufactured in Ashland, OR for stateside customers (first one sold to Jay Leno - of course).
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Originally posted by lazs2
The atom could not be sold here it looks like with all the safety stuff required... if they made it legal... you can figure it will weigh another 500 lbs.
lazs
It's here already as a kit. It says Leno (and others) even has some reg'd in Cali (gotta be the hardest place in the U.S. to get it done).
Prolly right though, never make it as a production model. A couple of hundred pounds worth of safety and the power to weight is completely shot.
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love it... 8 people create a car that is nearly as fast as a Ferrari Enzo, sell it at a price anyone can afford, and people still find something to moan about :D
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Originally posted by Midnight
A "Super-Car" needs a windshield so that the hot chicks will want to ride in it and give you good oral conversation while you drive.
Conversation is over-rated. :t
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Originally posted by Sandman
Conversation is over-rated. :t
Hint... Remove the word "conversation" and replace it with "Pleasure" in my original post.
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Originally posted by Mini D
Read the article linked, Lazs. It's being manufactured in Ashland, OR for stateside customers (first one sold to Jay Leno - of course).
From http://www.autoblog.com/2005/02/02/up-and-atom/
The Atom in Seattle is street legal. The factory are currently trying to get approval for more to be exported to the States. In the UK lots of us drive them on public roads in the cold and wet (not that we get much choice most of the year). If you ever get the chance to sit in the passenger seat on road or track, grab it with both hands - you'll never forget it.
The car is available as (bhp) 160; 220; 245; 275 (supercharged); and 300 (supercharged) depending on the engine management.
As for crashworthiness, I know of one that took out nine armco uprights at a racetrack following an off at c.70mph and although the frame was a little bent, the driver walked away with a bruised knee. It's a LOT safer than a Caterham or a Radical.
And at a trackday last weekend, nothing overtook me in my 220bhp - not even the three Porsche GT3RSs who shared the track with me. And one guy with a BMW M3CSL got so upset with me overtaking him, that he called the factory monday morning to place an order!
Bruce Fielding
Chairman, Ariel Atom Owner's Club
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Originally posted by Midnight
Hint... Remove the word "conversation" and replace it with "Pleasure" in my original post.
I got your point. ;)
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Originally posted by Midnight
Hint... Remove the word "conversation" and replace it with "Pleasure" in my original post.
nothing the engine air intake cannot match... i bet its a whole lot cheaper too ;)
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Originally posted by Furball
a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdkEV-t9jg0)
Ok now I WANT one
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the guy in that vid must have the loosest face in the world.... sport bikes are quicker and faster and I have ridden them without a helmet and never had that reaction.... it is downright freaky....
You can buy "kit car" cobras right now that will beat that car for power to weight....it is possible to have a 2400 cobra kit car with 1200 hp that really is street legal. You can have more HP even that that in a brand new 69 Camaro.
I don't see how the atom is much different than a lotus 7 with a real engine in it. friends lotus makes 200 hp. could make more supercharged.
The problem with that car is that it is a new engine in a new frame and they are trying to get around the regs by making it a kit car.... lots are doing that but this one is really in your face.... it is a slap in the face to the buerocrats and they will go all "assault weapons ban" on kit cars becuase of cars like this.
My car has a 1955 title so I won't be affected but.... the writing is on the wall for avoiding regulations with "kit" cars using all new components.
Soon as they regester that car as a 2006 civic.... it will have to meet all regulations for safety and smog...
When that happens it will weigh 3000 lbs and cost 60k and they will have to submit 4 of em a year for crash testing.
We have shifter go carts that are faster than that car right now. Should we just call em "kit cars"? same concept..
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
the guy in that vid must have the loosest face in the world.... sport bikes are quicker and faster and I have ridden them without a helmet and never had that reaction.... it is downright freaky....
you better watch the video again.
He raced a bike.
the bike lost;)
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Sandman... that article is over a year old. Try this one (http://www.brammo.com/) instead. It is currently being made in the U.S.
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The Us version would be better off with the SRT-4 engine with the 300 hp.
The Cobalt engine just don't cut it.
Bronk
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I remember this car from the thread awhile back. I'd take one.
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Why have they removed the Supercharged Type-R engine? My car is super-charged and it's the best sound in the world. :)
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Originally posted by Dowding
Why have they removed the Supercharged Type-R engine? My car is super-charged and it's the best sound in the world. :)
There is an option for the US version to use the SC Cobalt engine.
Bronk
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no dred.... he raced a 600 cc sportbike and even that accelerated faster than the car.... I was saying that I have ridden bikes faster than either the sport bike in the vid or the atom and they never did that crap to my face.
The guy has some serious face muscle problems.
lazs
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musta been that face lift you had lazs.
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no lift but..... I did have some layers ground off in a non surgical procedure.
soo... that could be it.
lazs
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BAH. Going fast means nothing except higher insurance rates.
Ask me how I know. :(
Now put about a 14" lift and some 33" Super Swampers on it and I'd drive it. :D
Actually if I had a spare 35,000 laying around I'd buy one.
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Originally posted by lazs2
no lift but..... I did have some layers ground off in a non surgical procedure.
soo... that could be it.
lazs
Thats what ya get for riding riceburners
Serves ya right :p
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well... never fell off a rice burner nor owned one... I rode Harleys for 20 years tho and now own a 750 BMW from the 70's that my son gave me.
I have ridden most of the superbike sport bikes that friends own tho. They are wicked fast.
lazs
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