21 April 2009 - 12:00
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Last year, Peugeot invited designers to draw up ‘the Peugeot in the Worldwide Megalopolis of tomorrow'. By ‘tomorrow', we can only assume they meant ‘some point in the distant future that'll never actually arrive'. Rather than ‘the day after today', because obviously that'd be several yesterdays ago by now.
Anyhow, here it is, the Peugeot in the Worldwide Megalopolis of some point in the distant future that'll never actually arrive. It's called the RD concept design, and it's the work of 27-year-old Colombian designer Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar.
Yes, it's a three-wheeler, and yes, it's electric. Tovar says the RD ‘combines the sensations of a three-wheeled scooter with the driving pleasure of a saloon car', with ‘the ability to easily thread its way through urban traffic'.
Hang on. Isn't the RD just about as wide at the front as a small car? Surely it'll only ‘easily thread its way through urban traffic' so long as you're not too worried about, say, door mirrors? Or the long-term health of your fellow commuters?
And while we're on the subject, as a single seater, is this really an efficient use of space in the crowded urban cityscapes of tomorrow (sorry, ‘some point in the distant future that'll never actually arrive')? Are we missing something? Use the comment boxes below to tell us why we're deeply, deeply wrong.
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Sorry, but nobody can beat Chickenfeeds comments. I'm not even gonna try.....
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So is it powered by a Dyson vacuum?
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I like it, but I want to see it get round a corner first.
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I think it's a case of believing it's own hype / style over substance (delete where appliable) bu that's not to say it's not quite a cool design and one I'd queue to have a go in :) I'm not too sure about what looks like a drive belt running from the motor to the rear wheel, seemingly with nowhere to attach to, but I think the design looks primed to fold itself upwards in the middle so it'd need less parking space. Even with the perfectly valid criticisms mentioned, there are a couple of far bigger ones that already spell problems for such a concept. You can already buy a Carver, which does everything this claims to but in less space and with more fun, and Murray's forthcoming T25 which could potentially render all other small cars obsolete overnight and still be flexible enough as a platform to take any forthcoming drivetrain.
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A wheel chair from optimistic sci-fi movie.
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SciFi is so much fun, with its hovering wheelchairs and crazy tyres. When SciFi-props are conceived, things like climate or glare are of no concern, because the future is Utopia. We are not happy with stearing wheels or turning indicators, so let's reinvent those. Yep, SciFi is fun.
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Motorbike of the future maybe, as long as you get rid of another wheel at the back. Looks cool but no hope in hell of anything ever coming remotely close to it...
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Actually, OptimusChrist, I believe that's the front of the thing...
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It makes me kind of sad to think that there are people who actually believe this is what we will be driving in the future (and it would make me even more sad if they were right)
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I'd love to ride anything that looks close enough to the motorbikes in Akira. A French suburban ring would be a great place to do it, by the way :)
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The cars they choose get more and more ridicolous. How do they want to find new car designers, when they award stuff like this? Can anyone please design a proper car again?? Please?? Hello!? Anyone?
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such an urge to continue exercise in sarcasm and say it's funny to get concepts of tomorrow from company that has no clue of making a car of today...but i won't.
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Right on tgto, right on.
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I can't imagine how expensive it'd be to replace worn tyres. Those things are enormous.
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That gadget is almost 17 feet long with places barely for two crippled midgets
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It is seriosly uncool and it looks like crap and i think it drives like one.
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Hmm, to be a first mover in Megalopolis you just might want to start designing the future-not-to-arrive car wash... worth a thought, eh...
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Awesome, apparently the future will be akin to TRON, complete with light-cycle racing. Sweet.
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Why only have three wheels when at the same cost of space you can have four? If you really want motorcycle sensation then you should check out that 2025 Volkswagen Baja Buggy concept... Now thats cool...
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It's Si-Fi... but not as we know it! Mr Tovar must of took his inspiration from the 1982 film 'Tron'. Just take a look at the bike scene.. all he has done is added a wheel. But yes, 4 is better than 3!
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Cool! We get to drive around in Judge Dredd's wheelchair!!
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you're deeply deeply RIGHT most unpractical thing i have ever seen...a lot of other cars of the same idea which are much smaller and have "the ability of easily threading their way through urban traffic in the cities of some point in the distant future that'll never actually arrive" it's too large to only take one passenger
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for the first and probably the last time i think you're deeply deeply RIGHT most unpractical thing i have ever seen...there are a lot of other cars with the same idea which are much smaller thus REALLY having "the ability of easily threading their way through urban traffic in the cities of some point in the distant future that'll never actually arrive" it's too large for a single seater
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Let's look at the practicals; single seater only accessible by athletic limbo dancer, motor bike rear suspension with HUGH unsprung weight, aforementioned width with those vast front tyres, large retro industrial electic motor (why not put three modern and efficient ones in the wasted space within the wheels?) whining an inch behind your head and, being electric, it appears to run on no batteries. Just check back a decade or so and see what the dippy designers said we would be driving today (some point in the future that actually arrived).
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this is stupidly pointless. When the designer showed this, did anyone think, "WHAT THE HECK?! WHAT WILL THIS ACCOMPLISH". I know! It will make you look stupid on the road and if you get in a crash itll be a yard sale for LIFEGEMS
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In the distant future that will never come, only evil French auto makers will be able to get a three wheeler with freek'n laser beams and training wheels on it. Problem... Without a boot, how do you get your groceries back to the secret lair under the volcano?
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Somebody ought to tell Peugeot that Piaggio is already selling the MP3 3-wheel scooter (also as Gilera Fuoco) which has all the advertised advantages plus a scooter-like width and TWO seats (besides the place for bags in the back). How can a "serious" car brand put on show such an absurd thing?
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chickenfeed commented on this article
21 April 2009
You are deeply wrong because in the world of tomorrow (some point in the distant future that'll never actually arrive) this carcycle will be a lot larger on the inside than it is on the outside due to its TARDIS like technology. There will be a cocktail bar there once you open the (non-existant) door. There will be no wing mirrors for it to clip because people will use little cameras to see behind instead. (the same cameras that have been appearing on every concept car since 1982 before being replaced by wing mirrors in the production model) The only danger is that a flying car from the same world of tomorrow (S.P.I.T.D.F.T.N.A.A.) might land on it. You see where you went wrong there I hope.
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