How Many MPPs Does It Get?
That's Miles Per Plank. The Daily Mail is running a story about a three wheel car made of wood. The builder, a furniture maker, took more than 2000 hours to complete his masterpiece. And it's pretty darn sharp looking, I might add.
The two-seater was put together using the chassis and 602cc engine from a Citroen 2CV. Mr Wood then built up layers of African mahogany around a basic mould using a boat-building technique known as 'cold moulding'.
The car is a a three-wheel adaption of the classic four-wheeled 1969 Citroen Diane and is able to do between 55 and 70 miles per gallon.
Cool looking car. I don't think it would pass US safety standards, though.
World news | Gaius Saturday, 28 April , 2007
By Quilly Mammoth, Saturday, 28 April , 2007 @ 7:34 pm
The cost factor for a front end collision at 5 mph would do it in. That’s what happened to the Crosslander and the Indian twin V diesel (who’s name I forget)
By nichevo, Sunday, 29 April , 2007 @ 12:40 am
You should know that wood is very strong. Properly designed, a wooden bumper system should be able to absorb the 5mph impact nicely. Of course perhaps it is not well designed, but please note that not only cars but fighter planes used to be built of wood.
By feeblemind, Sunday, 29 April , 2007 @ 3:21 pm
Let’s assume for a moment that the wooden car was poised to be a commercial success and that it was ready ro go into mass production. Can you imagine the reaction from the tree huggers if we started cutting down forests, carbon absorbing forests mind you, to build CO2 emitting autos? Why they would go ape dung wild. Hoo wee….. it would not be a pretty sight.