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Originally Posted by lakedude
Now if someone will just come up with a Personal Transport Vehicle. Why not fully enclose a 2,3 or 4 wheeler to make it an all weather (except maybe snow) PTV? A PTV would get great mileage. Being fully enclosed in a roll cage would be a lot safer than a regular motorcycle. I'd love to have a single seat car with just enough room for me and some stuff, or perhaps room for 2 front and back not side by side. If a PTV was half the width of a standard vehicle the air drag would be also in half. If you needed more room longer versions could be built with in line seating to reduce drag. It would look cool too, like something from the Bonniville salt flats, long and skinny like a rocket car.
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I'm going to show my age here, but I remember going to Epcot in Florida when I was in college and seeing a vehical called the Lean Machine in the GM pavilion. Here's a website that talks about it:
http://www.maxmatic.com/ttw_leanmachine.htm
The better pictures are at the bottom of the web page. I've wanted one of these ever since I saw it in person. I sometimes marvel the US automakers can come up with brilliant ideas, but can't find a way to follow through on them. This was 1983 and they were getting a claimed 120 MPG! Maybe we should send this weblink to Honda and Toyota, they seem a bit more willing to take a chance.