Go on, build it.
It'll be *really* bloody funny when Apple decide to ban the controller app from the App Store, as is their capricious wont........
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Leather and woold as eco-credentials? Perhaps they could use a mink coat lining instead. You have to be joking right? I rather suspect that, in terms of the Earth's resources being used that textiles based on plant material (or even, dare I say oil) will beat the hell out of using animal byproducts.
.. you can only run one thing at a time on the phone, and it will always kick out the application if you recieve a call, so the "important functions of the car" will stop if you recieve a phone call. I hope this does come out, hours of fun annoying your mates by phoning em while they are driving so the engine cuts out :P
Hmm. Now I'm not 100% sure on the facts here but you're suggesting that leather (a replenishable natural resource that can be harvested as a by-product from a food source) and wool (a replenishable natural resource that doesn't even require killing anything and can - even if it isn't usually - be harvested using simple hand-operated tools) is as environmentally friendly as oil (a limited natural resource that requires vast amounts of fuel and electricity to harness, process and transport and occasionally gets spilled into the ocean killing hundreds of thousands of marine creatures).
Not to say your point isn't valid on some very glib level but you seem to be confusing ecology with the ethics of using animal products and even then you seem to be a bit confused about where wool comes from. Try that argument again next time an Exxon tanker pollutes 10,000 square miles of ocean with its deadly cargo of wooly jumpers.
vewy nice!
like the mclaren-esque central driving position as well..very bond..
the momentum for leccy ve-hickles is finally here, it would seem..
bring it on, the more the merrier..hows that chinese BYD firm doing?
cheers,
bill
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Ungainly.
Meaningless range.
A couple of feature toys thrown in
Not really relevant, is it?
Okay, the Siemens and Harmon Kardon bits may have some use elsewhere, but this is just a badly packaged (front feet between the front axle line? Schoolboy error, tsk) adolescent wet dream with last season's trinkets scattered over it. If they were being remotely serious then it would be packing a CVT and not some left-over cogbox from a Subaru.
Don't get me wrong, I love sports cars. I love my two Ducatis even more. I just find these silly pretend things all rather shallow, badly realised and not very clever.
Andy, rear wheel spats are far from being a recent trend. You can go back a good 80 years to see them first appearing, and were a feature of many vehicles over time. The SS Saloon for example was also available in what Lyons called the Airline model, and he continued to have spats on Jaguars right up to the 1961. The Citroen DS had rear spats, and loads more.
Their aerodynamic contribution is not huge, but it is measurable, and in high performance applications they have served an additional purpose of helping to manage airflow around brakes. Aesthetically, a bit like yourself I can take or leave them, depending on the motor.
The `"important functions of the car" will stop if you recieve a phone call'?
That's one way of stopping people talking on the phone while driving.
On the other hand, if the phone refused to take or make calls while the car control application was running, it might make some real sense.