Bargain!
(Of course, getting Vuitton to make fitted-luggage for this Really-tricked-out Bug-eye-Sprite sized screamer might pose some problems.)
This formula also accords with my bias re bikes: Lighter is Better. You need less power/torque from the engine-now-'device-complex' and smaller tires,
thus--unsprung weight, and all which ensues.
It's bloody-amazing the options one could now wish-for [and expect to get delivered!] amidst all the 'energy-mixes' either already announced or,
sure to be driving entrepreneurs batshit-crazy.
Torque: (is all ye need to know);
what you Want is the unflappable curve of a steam-engine/ie its electric-motor analogue. Screw 'HP'--it is Aways about, can you reach tire-adhesion limits?
at-will/any 'speed' you're willing to pay for.
(Braking, ditto--with superb 'feel' of the micro-clues you Are on the edge.)
Suspension:
I'd like to see a marriage of the truly-innovative hydraulic suspension of my bevy of Citroëns, such that one can dial-in instantly:
a soft, Detroit-like but with-Handling lead-barge --> on to various degrees of balls-out hooning.
No experience yet of the eptness of various 'driver-assist' suspension + brakes + power-override gadgetry, but the ergonomics can only improve,
maybe to the point of doing an IOM 'tour'? with the car saving you from a variety of expectable errors.. (but never: All of such!)
Ah well, maybe a vertical arabesque--directly ^to^ the ~solar-powered multi-fan helicopter thing.
Have to find out what's happening lately to the hi-tech Carter-copter touted in these pages by ?? from Oz, eons back.
(to whom I sent many 'lectronic goodies, way-back.) 400 mph @ 50K altitude (!) was target.
http://www.flyingmag...00-mph-helicopter
IIRC he was insulted-away from here via a series of hyperbolic CRC nasty-posts. (Alas, those e-mails are on another HD.)
So then.. whither? in 3-D, shall our Want!s invade our What-If?s
