Gordon Murray's city car may yet make the streets

[madDan]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows/yamaha-reveals-gordon-murray-city-car

A bit more stylish to boot.

[adrimo]

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Very nice I like

[Big Performance]

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Looking forward to that as Big can remap Yamahas !

[problemchild1976]

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love pic 28 with the 451 in the back

Designer: hey gordon, which bits shall we copy from this here smart car.
Gordon: erm.... lets start with most of it and then see how we go. now get me a cuppa.... i've had a busy day!

haha!!

JJ

[Aabenhus]

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That is some ass ugly buttons in pic. 28!

[Evilution]

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Prefer the Suzuki Crosshiker

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X7qdt15bYz4/UnG4oj7gTEI/AAAAAAAAE3I/eCLBOPAXKTw/s1600/suzuki-crosshiker-5.jpg

[madDan]

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Looks like a curvier Nissan Junk.......

[Mr T]

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Reminds me of a shrunken Renault Espace.

[Thrumbleux]

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Yamaha and GMD have wholly out-smarted smart here. Lets hope Yamaha commit to it - not least because it will provide some proper competition to the fortwo (forcing smart to up their game) and offer us an alternative.

If it has the 3 cylinder engine I think it will have (sled derived (ignore Yamaha claims of a new engine - they claimed the same for their RX1 sled when it was an R1 motor shorn of its gearbox)) then it has huge power potential.

[NBC]

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From that picture 28 - would be nice if they reduced the length to at least the original smart !

[Evilution]

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Yamaha and GMD have wholly out-smarted smart here

Well, except for smart beating them to the punch by at least 15 years and there being no plans for Yamaha/GMD to actually make this thing.

[problemchild1976]

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not worth mapping a 1.0lt NA engine really though!

how much experience have yamaha got of producing engines suitable for cars?

JJ

[Kapt. Q]

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Yamaha have loads of experience designing engines for cars (and manufacturing them) , they were in partnership with Ford (US) doing just this for years (and others). V6's have been a particular speciality of their's for a long time. The thing I wonder about is how easy repairs will be to such a composite body in the event of an accident and to what degree the concept will be watered down by the time (if it even happens) it is made, it seems to have started down that slope already. Also the concept was focused on a low start up cost, but what about long term high volume? That composite looks labour intensive, is it really viable?

Cheers!

[madDan]

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Anymore labour intensive than the CF i3 from BMW?

[Mr T]

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how much experience have yamaha got of producing engines suitable for cars?

JJ

The Ford Fiesta/Mazda 121 1.25 Litre engines were Yamaha units. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Sigma_engine