Aptera: Future Car Now
Remember those cars from the Jetsons? Everyone’s always asking when we get our flying cars? Well, the Aptera may not fly, but it looks to me like the car of the future is very nearly a thing of the Here & Now.
Taking it all in at the Aptera site, one can’t help but be impressed, with the design, technology, execution and presentation of this vehicle which seems to me much more of and event than the Segway ever was going to be. It’s based more on a jet than a car, qualifies as a motorcycle, being on three wheels, goes over 85 MPH, costs about the same as many cars, and the hybrid model gets 300 mile per gallon. There’s an all-electric model, too.
They’re reservable now, and will be in production Fall 2008. For now they’re available only in certain areas of California, but when they figure how these things will drive on snow and ice here in MN, I’m likely to snap one up.
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If they took that weird tail off it, I’d be up for it. I do like the idea, and 300mpg is insane! I would be thrilled with 100mpg that didn’t look so dorky. Sorry, I just can’t deal with the shape, it looks really light, light in the loafers.
If it came with it’s own hydrogen generation station and ran on it, that would be space age!
- Mitch
Yeah, I don’t have the same problems with the design you seem to have, and if you look at other angles of the vehicle or watch the video at the “Interactive” portion of the site, you’ll see it’s designed aerodynamically; and that the rear needs to extend as far as it does to accommodate the back wheel.
Any guy comfy in their masculinity wouldn’t need a a Hummer or something to compensate.
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