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On 8/14/2020 at 8:47 PM, DVee8 said:

That looks a lot like a Fiat Idea.

That is because it it is almost the same car.

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Lamborghini/Bertone Genesis: a 1988 People carrier with gullwing doors, a Countach V12 and a 3 speed automatic

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My friend owns one of those. It's actually incredible. He used to commute in it in the '80s.

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I have no idea what that is but it looks a bit "Big Fat Gipsy Wedding"

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 If I remember my Portuguese correctly, Formigao means a  small ant. A bit of, probable, useless info.

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10 hours ago, sdkrc said:

Renha Formigao

 

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They look very much like they could have been made by Gurgel 

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1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

They look very much like they could have been made by Gurgel 

The red Formigao looks like I made it

 

Absolutely see what you mean. Both Brazilian as well

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Three-door bingo. Three back seats, but no back doors.

Why? I can't see any advantage in this over the five-door. 

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13 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

 If I remember my Portuguese correctly, Formigao means a  small ant. A bit of, probable, useless info.

From a quick glance I thought it said Fromage - wedge shaped and a bit of a whiff about it.

Which brings me to this - the Sebring-Vanguard Citicar an American electric car using 6 volt batteries with a range of 35 miles. Phun Phact - 4444 were made and they held the post war production  record for US made electric cars until beaten by the Tesla Model S. More here - https://siamagazin.com/the-sebring-vanguard-citicar-is-an-electric-cheese-wedge-from-the-70s/

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And this, on the outside at least, became the Elbil Norge Kewet Buddy (Kewet = the rather snappy Knud Erik Westergaard Elektrisk Transport). Knud was a Dane making pressure washers; he sold this company in the late 80's and moved into electric cars. First made in Denmark, then moved to the former DDR and then bought out  by Elbil Norge (nee  Kollega Bil A/S) who moved the production to Norway. It looks like they packed it in in 2013.

Norwegian Kewet Buddy electric vehicle's got good specs, clunky ...

There was at least one in the UK...

Kewet Buddy electric car used in train track protest (again), this ...

Atomkraft? Nein Danke.

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Look at this horror -

The Electric Shopper Model FG-75. Made by The Electric Car Company of California, Inc in the 50's and early 60's. I won't bore you further, read this if you must - https://www.prestigeelectriccar.com/en/history/1091/Electric_Shopper_1960

Electric Shopper 1960 | History | Prestige Electric Car

'Dependable for more than 25 years' - legal, decent, honest and truthful ? But it looks like at least one has existed for more than 25 years (whether it was dependable or not is another question).

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Astonishingly it looks even worse in real life, than in the drawing

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I like the fact that if you look at the photo after reading Blx comment, it looks horrifically offended in a Y Tho way.

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4 hours ago, martc said:

Kewet Buddy electric car used in train track protest (again), this ...

Atomkraft? Nein Danke.

The irony of protesting about a power plant, in an electric car.

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2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

The irony of protesting about a power plant, in an electric car.

Funny, I thought that. Assuming the thing is being charged, using the National Grid, at 18:20 on 18/8/20 11% of the electricity  is coming from nuclear.

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Interesting that these ancient comedy Septic electric things have the same range as most current ( geddit?)  plug in hybrids.

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9 hours ago, robinmasters said:

Three-door bingo. Three back seats, but no back seats.

Why? I can't see any advantage in this over the five-door. 

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The very early ones were all 3-door, but sales fell off a cliff when the much more practical 5-door came out.

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23 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

 If I remember my Portuguese correctly, Formigao means a  small ant. A bit of, probable, useless info.

Ah, as in formic acid, from ants etc. That makes sense. 

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Shamelessly stolen from a subreddit called r/weirdwheels but supremely* interesting. It's a collection of North Korean vehicles. I imagine there's a heck of a lot of rehashing here

https://ibb.co/album/6g06BC

*Downgraded to 'quite interesting' after going through the lot

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A North Korean rip-off of a Chinese rip-off of Japanese machinery. WCPGW?

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On 8/20/2020 at 6:59 AM, martc said:

From a quick glance I thought it said Fromage - wedge shaped and a bit of a whiff about it.

Which brings me to this - the Sebring-Vanguard Citicar an American electric car using 6 volt batteries with a range of 35 miles. Phun Phact - 4444 were made and they held the post war production  record for US made electric cars until beaten by the Tesla Model S. More here - https://siamagazin.com/the-sebring-vanguard-citicar-is-an-electric-cheese-wedge-from-the-70s/

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There's an automatic car wash local to me that has one of these on a revolving plinth sat outside.

 

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RPB (Racing Plast Burträsk) Piraya / GT, a Swedish VW Beetle-based kit car:

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3 hours ago, Madman Of The People said:

There's an automatic car wash local to me that has one of these on a revolving plinth sat outside.

Any chance of a pic?

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