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Title: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: 68ZooM on March 24, 2010, 01:10:01 PM
Well i dont know if i would want to be seen in this  :headscratch:

The city car of the future will seat two people, run on electric power and communicate with other vehicles to reach a destination faster while automatically avoiding traffic tie-ups and crashes. General Motors, working with electric-scooter maker Segway, has developed three concepts tailored toward that vision of future transportation. The Electric Networked Vehicle, or EN-V, concepts go on display May 1 at the World Expo in Shanghai.

(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/68zoom/377E3E3FE6147D79F3A15FC9B1F14.jpg)

The rest of the Artical is here  http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1135907&icid=autos_1373&GT1=22017 (http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1135907&icid=autos_1373&GT1=22017)
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: curry1 on March 24, 2010, 01:46:45 PM
plz tell me this is a joke
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: Jayhawk on March 24, 2010, 01:51:02 PM
From the article:
"GM says the EN-V can reach a top speed of 25 mph and travel 25 miles on a full charge of its lithium-ion battery pack."

Just a fancy golf cart.  But some interesting technology that will no doubt be integrated into future automobiles.
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: cobia38 on March 24, 2010, 04:40:20 PM
  that would disapear in most american potholes
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: bravoa8 on March 24, 2010, 04:44:31 PM
We're getting too futuristic here...Or at least in Japan :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: caldera on March 24, 2010, 04:53:51 PM
That giant asteroid can't get here soon enough.
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: EskimoJoe on March 24, 2010, 05:06:28 PM
We're getting too futuristic here...Or at least in Japan :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Shanghai is in China  :aok

Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: whiteman on March 24, 2010, 06:44:30 PM
have fun in your electric car, I'll go Mad Max and steal fuel from from the wasteland to run my Z28.
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: FTJR on March 24, 2010, 06:50:48 PM
With the exception of Telsa and Fischer, why do all "electic" cars look like crap? All of todays technology and they turn out ugly things and they wonder why people dont want them.. Do  you think its deliberate?
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: sluggish on March 24, 2010, 08:19:51 PM
With the exception of Telsa and Fischer, why do all "electic" cars look like crap? All of todays technology and they turn out ugly things and they wonder why people dont want them.. Do  you think its deliberate?

It's definitely deliberate.  Green freaks want to stand out.  It takes a special kind of person to spend $40k extra on a vehicle that will save them $10k over the course of that vehicle's usable lifespan; that special kind of person wants to stand out.
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: ridley1 on March 24, 2010, 08:32:57 PM
25 miles on a full charge?  Kewl....so all I have to do is buy 2. 1 for home, and one for parking halfway to work.
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: trax1 on March 24, 2010, 08:58:16 PM
The car seems to be aimed at a large congested city only, it just wouldn't be practical anywhere else, & you'll only see people driving something like that in Asian countries, it just wouldn't appeal to people anywhere else.

Just looked at all the pics, the Europe & U.S design do look better then the Australian one pictured above.
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: lyric1 on March 24, 2010, 09:16:39 PM
Put some arms on some of those cars & they look like the robot from lost in space.
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: Lepape2 on March 24, 2010, 10:03:28 PM
One more way to cluster more people together in an already clustered up space. They should at least try to do it with style and not with little green men inspired designs... ahahah Green men... get it?  :bolt:

What happens in the event of a major earthquake or some other uneventful natural disaster and you have to evacuate your little pretty peaceful downtown? Sure can walk after those 25miles... besides, might be faster than your car heh heh  :devil
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: branch37 on March 24, 2010, 10:46:04 PM
have fun in your electric car, I'll go Mad Max and steal fuel from from the wasteland to run my Z28.

 :rock :rock :rock
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: phatzo on March 25, 2010, 02:49:17 AM
Put some arms on some of those cars & they look like the robot from lost in space.
Danger Will Robinson, aliens aproaching, would be a great sound for the reverse beeper.
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: VonMessa on March 25, 2010, 05:08:14 AM
Put some arms on some of those cars & they look like the robot from lost in space.

 :rofl

You beat me to it!

DANGER Lyric..... DANGER!
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: 68Wooley on March 25, 2010, 12:30:27 PM
Can you say 'Sinclair C5'?
Title: Re: GM unveils Future Car in Shanghai
Post by: bravoa8 on March 26, 2010, 11:14:12 PM
Shanghai is in China  :aok


Whoops didn't see that. :rofl :rofl