[Mars]

Since when is your own car safer than a bus? Particularly when you're driving a car the size of a motorcycle.

[Flipside]

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2221201/british-boffins-build-electric

That's more along my lines, however. I'm not sure about the optional 'Engine Sound Generator' that you can get with it

[Mongoose]

So basically it fulfills the same role as a bus at many times the price... probably because Suburban Joe is too stupid or too scared or too ignorant to figure out a bus system.

I don't know about your suburbia, but mine has jack-all for bus service.

And that's an impressive piece of work, Flipside.  Do those engine sounds include the four-year-old yelling "Vroom vroom!"

[Nuke]

most places ive been have had busses every half hour, the catch is you usually had to catch 2 to get anywhere in particular. but i say on average bus commutes in the 10 mile range will eat at least 2 hours of your day. doing the home-work-school-bar-home routine in phoenix was a 3 hour adventure (in terms of daily bus riding and waiting time). i was on 6 buses a day. Juneau is a little better being a coastal town. theres really only 3 or 4 routes (phoenix had to have over 500). and i can usually get anywhere in a half hour. but the town is an order of magnitude smaller. still this place has typically overcrowded buses, which is difficult when you need to carry tools around.  when time is money, or when you work long hours, either sort of system system is intolerable.

[Mars]

Point taken... however I think you'd be rather strapped for space to fit any tool bigger than a drill in this thing.

[BloodEagle]

So basically it fulfills the same role as a bus at many times the price... probably because Suburban Joe is too stupid or too scared or too ignorant to figure out a bus system.

Because of your advice, every U.S. citizen has decided to travel only by means of public transportation. There are now 290 million people attempting to utilize the already clogged public transportation systems. Industry halts, jobs go undone, workers go unpaid, and the entire economy collapses into itself. Causality is now shattered, and existence is a nightmare without a beginning or end.

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Electric cars are the future past. We should examine and utilize older, more efficient technology.

[Roanoke]

Buses and Trains are great if you don't mind you're journey taking 3xlonger than it should. I went to look at buying a car and the quoted 3.5 hours took more like 6.

it looks like the speedometer gets up to 180km/h, wishful thinking

111MPH is believable for a aerodynamic, light car. You're making the mistake of seeing engine size as the b-all and end all of performance.

Actually, a light, low-power car is rubbish for top speed. That's why a Lotus Elise with the same power-to weight as an Imprezza STI tops out at 120. I'd doubt if that VW thing would crack 70mph. The gearing would be ridiculous, unless it had about 7 gears.

[vyper]

Use the proper VVC and it's 145MPH.