It Gets 92 MPG and Looks Like a Penis

[Tuckerfan]

@Johnny L.A.

I haven’t had my garage built yet, so I don’t have a workspace. And I have little time to build one. And I like the higher mileage figure for the Carver compared to the Doran:

What about the Centurion?

Centurion
128-mpg Diesel-Powered Sports Car

Okay, it’s got 4 wheels, but it’s the diesel that gives it such high MPG. You combine the two plans and you’d get a high performance 3-wheeler.

[Johnny_L.A]

@Tuckerfan

What about the Centurion?Okay, it’s got 4 wheels, but it’s the diesel that gives it such high MPG. You combine the two plans and you’d get a high performance 3-wheeler.

From the link:

With its 17-hp, 3-cylinder Kubota diesel engine…

Back in 1984 a coworker and I bought plans for a hybrid car that used a Kubota diesel engine. The engine ran a generator that ran a ‘7,500 rpm jet engine starter motor’, and I think there were batteries as well. My coworker got the plans first and I never saw them again as I quit and went to a new job in early-1985.

[CarnalK]

@Terrifel

I prefer to believe it’s probably just an extreme fascination with cars, to the point where you start being reminded of them no matter what you’re looking at, whether it’s remotely appropriate or not. Like in the cartoons when Woody Woodpecker was starving, and he’d look at the walrus and see a giant hot dog or something.

Uuuh, so what does it mean when you look at cars and see penises?
Anyway, neat looking car though it doesn’t meet the x-prize’s fuel efficiency or marketability requirements.

[El_Cid_Viscoso]

Cuttlefish, definitely. There’s got to be something wrong with your tallywhacker if it looks like that.

I think John Deere should get into autos. My tractor runs FOREVER on five gallons of diesel. It’s frankly amazing.

Of course, a two-door sedan with no roof or windows would cost $7 million . . .

[Kamino_Neko]

@Johnny L.A.

I want one of these.

Fuck! It’s a Light Bike! MCP is coming!

[Terrifel]

@CarnalK

Uuuh, so what does it mean when you look at cars and see penises?

Er… well… that is to say… I sort of presumed that it had gone the other way around. You know how it is? You’ll be looking at a penis, and think to yourself, “if only this could somehow incorporate automotive concept design, it would be EVEN COOLER!” And then your eyes get those little hypnotic cartoon swirls in them, and suddenly you discover that the male organ in question has transformed itself into a Sbarro Turbo S20. And then you immediately post your hallucination online, because, hey, it’s the internet; that’s what it’s for.

[Sapo]

@Terrifel

I prefer to believe it’s probably just an extreme fascination with cars, to the point where you start being reminded of them no matter what you’re looking at, whether it’s remotely appropriate or not. Like in the cartoons when Woody Woodpecker was starving, and he’d look at the walrus and see a giant hot dog or something.

you know, sometimes a hot dog is just a hot dog

[Terrifel]

@Sapo

you know, sometimes a hot dog is just a hot dog

True… But sometimes it’s the Wienermobile.

Pretty keen how I brought that around full circle, eh?

[lawoot]

So, with these three-wheeled cars (such as the Venture), since they are classified as motorcycles does that mean that you have to wear a helmet while driving them?