Holy Honda Mod, Batman! Hawk 3-Wheeler looks like Batmobile Meets Rocket
While states are free to make their own rules in the US, the lawyers at the Department of Energy don’t want to part with the government’s $25 billion loan program for advanced vehicles because of their three-wheeledness. Lame if you ask me, oh and also if you ask Republican representative Brian Bilbray. Not often I can say that!
Mr. Bilbray has introduced the “Innovative Vehicle Act” to Congress to get formal recognition for three-wheelers, and fuel-efficient two-wheelers. The bill is a bit taylored for the Aptera, which is slated to start production at the end of this year, I am sure designers like Alex Hodge don’t mind.
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Super fast mcMansion Mortgage buster of a commuter! Now that GM is gone, and the SUV doesn’t terrorize the highways anymore, we don’t have to play the Bigger is safer game anymore! This thing has to get good mileage, can easily be given plug-in batteries when they get real good, and takes up little parking space! If I can get the 8 to five switched to three 12’s or better, I can even save more at the pumps, and even get a second job, or garden my way to lower grocery bills, to get the mortgage down! America needs this kind of relief, during the great republican depression! Wife could get to a part-timer position for cheap enough to make it pay! I could uwse two of these things right now!
What a great car! But the Aptera still seems more viable.
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It’s great, until it (if it) ever gets produced and ends being a $40,000 to $60,000 single seat commuter vehicle ala the T-Rex and all the rest of the high(er) performance three-wheeled vehicles.
If there’s that much concern over “mcMansion” busting, getting away from “bigger is safer,”, increased gas mileage, etc. etc. etc. - buy a motorcycle. It fulfills all the above plus some, costs WAY less, and is perfectly viable (and used as the major source of transportation in several countries). The T-Rex has been out forever, this kind of super niche vehicle does nothing for relieving the economy, not when a Civic is cheaper and probably gets better mileage.
its New Zealand bud
Not new zeeland
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Uncle B,
How is this the “Republican Repression”?
You do realize that Democrats were in control of the House and the Senate since 2006, right?
You do realize that several key Republicans, including McCain and Bush warned the dems in Congress that the financial meltdown was on teh wya, don’t you?
Senator Christopher Dodd (Democrat) is head of the powerful banking committee in the Senate. He and Barney Frank (Democrat) consistently resisted attempts by the Bush Administration to closely regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Dodd also got preferential treatment from Countrywide on two mortgages. Countrywide was one of the biggest subprime providers. Frank and Dodd received thousands of dollars in contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the years. Dodd has received $133,900 since 1989; Frank received $40,100. (While in the Senate, Barack Obama received $105,849).
But the media never told you this stuff. And why? Because they wanted your guy in the Oval office.
Hey, uncle B, Just a bit of information about the depression.
It started with the “Community Reinvestment Act of 1977” which required Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to get half of their mortgage money into inner city mortgages. They were rather slow about that because it required many of what are now called “sub-prime” mortgages. Then Bill Clinton came along and under his administration the executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were threatened with legal action if they did not comply with the 50% inner city requirement. We also had a big push for Adjustable Rate Mortgages which allowed making loans based on the initial payments instead of the final payment after the rate increased.
Finally, although Geo. Bush presented the “bailout” plan to congress, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid rewrote it and added much more in the way of funds. It became a Democrat Plan.
It should not require much for you to research and find that all of these depression causing plans occurred under Democrat administrations with Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress.
And then we have the proposed laws that republicans presented that would have required Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to return to a proper reserve level for their loans. These bills were presented in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007. All were killed by Democrats and the last one, which was probably too late anyhow, was killed in committee by Harry Reid.
Sorry about that. “It should not require much for you to research” comment.
I forgot that since Obama has taken over with his “OPEN” government, the “Thomas” website for access to bills and proposed bills seems to have many non-working pages.
At 144Mph I bet you its unstable. In the UK in the 70’s there was a 3-wheeler that use to tip over if you went round a roundabout too fast.