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Fancy. They even come with their own wheelchair, so once you wreck you're covered. It's like "Accident Forgiveness."

Are these as good for the environment as the Prius?

http://clubs.ccsu.edu/Recorder/editorial/editorial_item.asp?NewsID=188

Looks like that would be fun in your backyard. About sharing the road with an eighteen wheeler...not so much fun.

I think picking one of these out of the brush guard on the front of my one ton dual wheel diesel truck would be a drag. And I would gladly sue the driver's estate for damage to my chrome.

What a dorkmobile! Are you supposed to take a date out in that thing? Rush talked about this in the noon-hour. What happened to the big American things we used to love? Well, I guess some still love them.
The range on this contraption is 35 miles. Don't get stuck on a lonely country road!!!

Everyday, our country becomes less recognizable as the United States of America, and more like Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

sorry, but i kind of like this. but i also love scooters and smart cars (more for the novelty and saving me some green) i think i'd have to check it out if they come to my town. i saw something similar from japan on top gear recently. this looks better though....

I'd like to see someone try to navigate that on the 80/90 by Chicago during Rush Hour.

I know most cars nowadays has crumble points and X beams for crashes, but does this "vehicle" come with a shovel in case of collisions?

LOL! I remember when the Segway was supposed to be all over the streets of America. The only place you see those things is in some malls and on factory floors with wide open spaces. Of course people were smart enough to figure out those expensive toys would be hazardous if alot of people started using them in crowded sidewalks and city streets.

What good is a thing like that anyway? You cant even go grocery shopping with it. Its just another toy for geeks and yuppies and eco nuts.

golf carts go faster and farther

Insurance for one of those things will probably be pretty expensive.

Top speed of only 35mph? This might work along tree lined surburban steets but just try getting to work in one. Can you imagine these things competing with full size cars and delivery trucks? Can you say LAWSUITS?? This is nothing but a bailout for lawyers. They will have a field day with this as commuters are maimed and killed in these death traps. The only way it would be safe is if they outlawed trucks and normal sized cars.

This is what we get from Government Motors?
I drive 40 miles each way to work on I-80. What's this wheelchair with a cover going to do for me?

I can't wait to get one!!! If my real car breaks down, I just pop open the glove box and "Ta Da", spare car!

Yeah, but does it fold up into a briefcase like a Jetsons car? That would get me to buy!

Will all the Congress critters drive these around Washington or will they still arrive to work in their SUV convoys?

These would work just great in a Wisconsin winter...or not.

So if the government is running Government Motors and mandating these cars and someone gets hurts can they sue the government for damages like they allow gun and cigarette suits against the manufacturers ?

"Top speed of only 35mph? This might work along tree lined surburban steets but just try getting to work in one."
And that's not counting on the Interstate.
On most interstates, the MINIMUM speed is 40 mph. Anyone driving those clown cars on the interstate would be ticketed for impeding traffic.

And you can bet they will be getting some Stimu-Pork money to build these stupid things.

Guys, this thing obviously isn't intended for rural roads and/or highways.

The point is, GM is failing. And their response is this piece of crap.

Let.Them.Fail.

I have no doubt that there are many, many intelligent and hard-working people out there waiting for the chance to fill in the holes in the market that this gasping behemoth hasn't relinquished yet.

Sorry GM, BMW came out with the same thing 10 years ago... and theirs didn't need an onboard computer system to stay upright.

http://www.motorcycle.com/manufacturer/bmw/bmw-c-1-cityscooter-13940.html

Once again, (many) days late, and a dollar short. And guys, these are for people that live in urban areas, not the idiots that sit in their cars for 2 hours a day to get to the office.

Ah... well, I worked alongside the UAW for a couple years. I'll tell you they are thuggish, overpaid, and foolish as a collective. However, many of them are decent and hardworking people who could compete with overseas workers if they weren't so heavily invested in being ridiculously overpaid.

The SouthPark guys should sue GM. The proposed vehicle looks a LOT like the "IT" cycle from the Southpark episode "The Entity".

http://www.echolog.de/img/southpark_monowheel.jpg

Albeit, without the fake-penis flexigrip controls.

Don't worry guys, part B of this boondoggle is to build an interstate system of PUMA-ways, so it's all good!

Oh, and I just had a thought. I live in Minnesota, and that thing would be CRUSHED under some of the snow storms we have up here. Might be a good way to thin the herd, now that I think of it...

Enough with the two-wheeled balancing act! That's a solution in search of a problem. At least put three or four wheels on the stupid thing (and no, the wheely bars don't count).

great, another tiny car to pick out of the grill of my escalade

I'm going to keep my Ford F-350 Powerstroke diesel just so I can play chicken with these retards when they hit the streets.

Just to be a real dick, I'll have to invest in a lift kit to make sure that the PUMA gets optimally drug under the vehicle and violently thrown out the back.

connertown,

Since GM is basically owned by the left wing government, I'm sure the fake-penis flexigrips will be at very least be a factory option. At worst, everybody will be required to have them and we will be sentenced to mandatory sensitivity training if we complain or make insensitive comments about them.

The most disturbing part of this... the lefties in charge of our media and government actually look at that vehicle and say, "Brilliant!"

"I'm going to keep my Ford F-350 Powerstroke diesel just so I can play chicken with these retards when they hit the streets.

Just to be a real dick, I'll have to invest in a lift kit to make sure that the PUMA gets optimally drug under the vehicle and violently thrown out the back."

From our "culture of life" friends at Moonbattery.com! Speaking of "real dick", I hear the guys that drive these monster trucks have TEEEEENY tiny ones, isn't that right Eoin!?

Aw, Eoin, you went and made the troll wet his pants.

it ought to be a quick death if someone nudges you from the side and your neck snaps on that black and yellow striped bar there...just sayin'...

Karin at April 7, 2009 10:14 AM
Are you supposed to take a date out in that thing?

Nope...No dates!

"Anonymous at April 7, 2009 10:36 AM"

the tampa post office bought several Segways and they were GREAT for mailmen making the rounds. that is, they WERE untill the things started making sudden left turns. Really! They would suddenly turn LEFT!

You may now make the obvious "Liberal" jokes.

WHAT!!! How are some of da Homies gonna a get they 20 inch rims on dat!!!

Sorry ladies and gents if that came out RACIST. It's the MEMPHIS in me. LOL!!!!! This car as well as this administration such a JOKE.

What is up with all the Obomites a trollin'?

I think my lawn tractor could out run this thing.

Is the government pushing GM to do this, or is the company doing it of it's own volition?

This will be a huge boon for personal injury and class action lawyers! Need I say more?

Nope...No dates!

Posted by: D. King at April 7, 2009 3:28 PM

it WOULD be a great abstinence tool...

This is nothing - Have you guys seen the military one GM is proposing?

http://www.tagito.com/fj/puma.jpg

it WOULD be a great abstinence tool...
~ nancz

It's the "birth-control glasses" of cars.

This thing cracks me up.

Always wanted a Segway (sp?) Maybe this thing can have a 'convertible' model without that ridiculous roll-cage looking thing, and modify it with extra batteries/more powerful motor and go faster, farther.

If its stupid enough, it will become a sport. Look for these to be raced when they hit production.

"From our "culture of life" friends at Moonbattery.com! Speaking of "real dick", I hear the guys that drive these monster trucks have TEEEEENY tiny ones, isn't that right Eoin!?"

Sorry Joe, unlike CO2 fearing fools who miraculously find an income through various entitlement programs and drum circle gigs, some of us have to find employment through selling goods and services to other individuals or groups in a free market model. For some of us that involves making a huge investment in a voraciously fuel-consuming vehicle so that equipment can be brought to a job sight in a single haul, as opposed to five hundred trips spanning several weeks in a Toyota Prius. Don't worry, I pay more in taxes every week than you collect in an entire month, ensuring the continued existence of your entitlement.

As far as having a tiny one, I'm sure that a certain portion of the female population (the ones that smell of patchouli and wear open-toed shoes) are mightily turned on by your four-cylinder subcompact. The thirty thousand dollars sitting in my driveway not only says I have the assets to provide for offspring, but have the skills to continue to do so.

And, buying the lift kit was just a joke. The only reason I would get one would be to ensure that my rather hefty investment doesn't get a scratched bumper as I run over two-seat segways.

PUMA vs. Semi: Splat!!! Kinda like that dragonfly at the beginning of "Men In Black."

It'll be fun watching one of these "bumper cars" dodge, or get eaten by the frigin potholes after a normal winter.

They should market it as the "Alpha Q."

Oh c'mon big goverment! You didn't dumb-down the population enough. If you had, then maybe the desease-ridden filthy proletariots...sorry, the citizens would have swallowed this one hook line and sinker.

Marketing slogan: "For the man who has everything - except for two functioning testicles."

Posted by: nancz at April 7, 2009 4:55 PM
it WOULD be a great abstinence tool...

I’m not sure it would make much of a difference
to the owner of this new dorknology!

Forgot to mention it converts into a state of the art wheelchair.
So... the "Peoples Car" has only evolved to this in 60 years?
Still feel safer in a 1948 VW Beetle.
Maybe a conspiracy: GM in with the right to reduce Liberal Weenie population ensuring the Right with a voting majority? Sshh...

I know I will get killed for this but I kinda like it, it looks like it would be alot of fun to tool around in around the neighborhood on the open road no way, I will stick to my SUV and HD Heritage classic.

Its an escape pod for an SUV

Clown car, looks like fun to ride around in, in a circus act. I bet the clowns think it's perfect.

sorry, but i kind of like this. but i also love scooters and smart cars (more for the novelty and saving me some green) i think i'd have to check it out if they come to my town. i saw something similar from japan on top gear recently. this looks better though....

Posted by: gomergirl at April 7, 2009 10:19 AM

I know I will get killed for this but I kinda like it, it looks like it would be alot of fun to tool around in around the neighborhood on the open road no way, I will stick to my SUV and HD Heritage classic.

Posted by: Oldcrow at April 7, 2009 9:14 PM

Try this instead.

"I know I will get killed for this but I kinda like it, it looks like it would be alot of fun to tool around in around the neighborhood on the open road no way, I will stick to my SUV and HD Heritage classic.

Posted by: Oldcrow at April 7, 2009 9:14 PM"

Yep, it would be fun to have on in a gated golfing community or someplace like that. But then again, a standard golf cart would be more comfortable and include drink holders and a place to store cigars in the dash.

I'm having a hard time coming up with an application for this thing except as an expensive toy for eevvviiil rich people to screw around with.

It looks like it was once part of a roller coaster. I don't know if the designers meant for it to be used outdoors. It has no windshield wipers, no headlights and looks like it would uncomfortable in anything less than warm and sunny conditions.

It's a 'Neighborhood Electric Vehicle'(NEV). They have been around for decades. Do a search, I'm sure you will have a great laugh. There are communities which are built spicifically for this type of 'transportation', check out Lincoln, CA. Also, the Army is now operating, or has leased 4000+ electric vehicles for use on US bases from Chrysler.

Meanwhile, Obama Regime pressures Chrysler to stop selling it's most profitable vehicle.

I wonder what'll happen if the rider is hit by a SUV. LOL