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TJKrew rated 13 months ago-
Modern cars are Rube Goldberg-ish -- inelegant kludges. Thousands of oily, rusty, dirty, finicky, cantankerous, toxic parts ... whining, rattling, churning, groaning, smoking.
Clinking, clanking, clattering collections of caliginous junk!
Chugging fuel to the glee of cigar-chomping oleagine...
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 TJKrew rated 13 months ago-
Modern cars are Rube Goldberg-ish -- inelegant kludges. Thousands of oily, rusty, dirty, finicky, cantankerous, toxic parts ... whining, rattling, churning, groaning, smoking.
Clinking, clanking, clattering collections of caliginous junk!
Chugging fuel to the glee of cigar-chomping oleagineers.
Imagine instead a car that does the same job with 1/10 or 1/100 the number of parts -- inexpensive, sleek, very efficient, and classy. Where else could such a car be invented than Germany? The land of the Virus synth -- the land of wind & solar.
The Loremo AG got it goin' on. Well, OK, with props to these US high school kids.
[ stumble-thanks to redshift13 ]
 redshift13 rated 13 months ago-
The Loremo AG:
-157 mpg
-anticipated $13,000 price tag
-"The Loremo is due to come onto the European market in 2009." [Meaning, it will be on the American market sometime in the next 10 years, or never.]
 louieK rated 27 months ago-
157 mpg.
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