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Thread ID: 81964 2007-08-12 06:06:00 Why are eco vehicles so ugly? jermsie (6820) PC World Chat
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579847 2007-08-13 05:08:00 Going by the car series on Sky recently we might not have to wait much longer for a wide range of Eco cars. Electric, Bio etc.

Electric Minis that are comparible with a normal Mini, Hondas the same. Electric Motor Bikes.

GM have a new design team looking at future cars with a skateboard style infrastructure with electric engine on each wheel and interchangable bodies like wagon, ute, sedan etc that just clip on.

Maybe not too many years away.
Bantu (52)
579848 2007-08-13 05:23:00 Going by the car series on Sky recently we might not have to wait much longer for a wide range of Eco cars. Electric, Bio etc.

Electric Minis that are comparible with a normal Mini, Hondas the same. Electric Motor Bikes.

GM have a new design team looking at future cars with a skateboard style infrastructure with electric engine on each wheel and interchangable bodies like wagon, ute, sedan etc that just clip on.

Maybe not too many years away.

I saw the GM skateboard a few years ago. GM also had an electric car that they leased, they have since taken them all back. The U.S car makers have found it cheaper to fight the new emission laws then to develop a car to meet them
plod (107)
579849 2007-08-13 07:43:00 So to sum up,some cars are ugly and others not,it was ever so.

We must do more research b4 blithely asking questions.
Cicero (40)
579850 2007-08-13 08:34:00 Some eco-cars indeed look like they were designed by a dyslexic golf club Agent_24 (57)
579851 2007-08-13 09:52:00 I've been browsing through Digg this afternoon and came across an article about Segway inventor Dean Kamen's new work.

www.ecogeek.org (www.ecogeek.org)

The question must be asked though... why are eco cars so damn ugly? Wouldn't it make sense to integrate these new technologies into something affordable and relatively familiar with the everyday consumer?

Thats rubbish. I have a Lexus RX and the hybrid looks exactly the same as the petrol verson.
robbyp (2751)
579852 2007-08-15 06:32:00 This is the old false generalisation problem.

Modify the question to: "Why do some eco vehicles appear ugly to me?", and the immediate answer is "For the same reason that some conventional vehicles appear ugly to me". Tastes vary.
Graham L (2)
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