Another small vehicle design study

[TazmanianKoala]

Fellows

I found another small vehicle. Sadly enough it is only a design study for a new concept of urban transportation.
The concept is called "Cito Dual Mode (http://www.smalladvancedmobility.com/index.php?id=80)". (link is only in Dutch :()
The car is being developed for urban transportation and highway use. In urban areas the unit can be driven manually, while for highway use the car can use U-shaped lanes for automatic driving.

It should be equipped with a hybrid engine, but I cannot find the spec's of the engine.

As far as I can see, the car is not a tilting vehicle, but I thought I should mention it anyway.
Some pictures from their site:
http://www.smalladvancedmobility.com/typo3temp/pics/139d18938e.jpg

Proposed interior:

http://www.smalladvancedmobility.com/typo3temp/pics/45fc4fa2eb.jpg http://www.smalladvancedmobility.com/typo3temp/pics/012455facd.jpg http://www.smalladvancedmobility.com/typo3temp/pics/9109c3b434.jpg

In action in urban environment (manual driving) and in a specially designed traffic lane (automatic driving) :

http://www.smalladvancedmobility.com/typo3temp/pics/efb2d06adf.jpg http://www.smalladvancedmobility.com/typo3temp/pics/956f6fcfe0.jpg

Sadly enough this only is a design study. Probably this idea will end in a drawer of a governmental desk, like so many other good ideas. :mad:

[rogwild]

Interesting, here is a 'google translation':

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.smalladvancedmobility.com/index.php%3Fid%3D101&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.smalladvancedmobility.com%26hl%3Den%26client%3 Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DqRz%26sa%3DG

[TazmanianKoala]

Thanks to my brother we now have some other vehicle to wonder about.
He placed some info on his website about the Renault Ublo (http://www.vasterman.com/RenaultUblo.htm), I do not yet know where he got the info.
I only post the link. Seems that he was once more stumbling the web with a search engine.

http://www.vasterman.com/pics/TriCycle/3-wielers/hd-u-270901s.jpg (http://www.vasterman.com/RenaultUbloPictures.htm) http://www.vasterman.com/pics/TriCycle/3-wielers/hd-u3-270901s.jpg (http://www.vasterman.com/RenaultUbloPictures.htm)
Click on the pictures to see larger ones.

I think this is how the Vogue should have looked.
It's a real shame that Renault did not put this vehicle in production.

[Derwin]

Well, if Renault ever did put that in production, I would guess that it would cost a lot more than just 3 or 4 thousand dollars! Knowing about this actually makes me feel BETTER about the VogueOne. We are getting a vehicle that is very similar to one that a major auto maker has considered. Not bad! I bet we can tweak the VogueOne enough to make it appear very, very nice, and maybe even better. I'm getting pretty excited about it. ;-)

Derwin

[WarpedOne]

Wow, now this is nice!

VougeOne conversion anyone? :)

[Miracleman89]

pretty slick! I like them both! Hey Big D just let me know when they are 250cc