Futuristic Car In STXI Actually 230 MPG Prototype

[Carpe Occasio]

The car seen in the Starfleet Academy spy photo's is a real prototype -

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/06/05/washburn.230.mpg.car.kfmb

 

[Akiraprise]

I just don't understand why we can't have 230mpg vehicles that don't look like stupid. Even the current hybrid vehicles on the market, like the Prius, just scream "I'm an eco friendly gas miser, look at me look at me!" All I want is good gas mileage in a normal looking vehicle. Why is that so difficult to do?

 

[Naldo]

I just don't understand why we can't have 230mpg vehicles that don't look like stupid. Even the current hybrid vehicles on the market, like the Prius, just scream "I'm an eco friendly gas miser, look at me look at me!" All I want is good gas mileage in a normal looking vehicle. Why is that so difficult to do?

in a word: Aerodynamics

The entire concept of transportation must be completely reinvented.

Check out the new Loremo from Germany. It's a bit more traditional looking, but there are reasons that these high efficiency vehicles tend to look the way they do.

The flat front end doesn't work.

 

[M'Sharak]

The car seen in the Starfleet Academy spy photo's is a real prototype -

And identified all the way back here, in fact.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The "normal looking" cars of 2008 look pretty dorky by 1970s standards - like they're going to try to burrow forward into the ground.

 

[Jon1701]

The car seen in the Starfleet Academy spy photo's is a real prototype -

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/06/05/washburn.230.mpg.car.kfmb

Don't forget Kirk's fondness for antiques

 

[Carpe Occasio]

The car seen in the Starfleet Academy spy photo's is a real prototype -

And identified all the way back here, in fact.

Oops. Missed that.

 

[M'Sharak]

It's OK; a few people in that thread missed it, too. Just giving credit where credit is due.

 

[Lumen]

I think it looks pretty cool.

 

[Michael]

I guess in the Trex XI forum you learn something "new" every day.

 

[Carpe Occasio]

OK, OK, I get it. I started a thread about something that had already been posted. Jeez, the forum police are out in force. Excuuuuuuuuuuuuse meeeeeeeeeeee for not reading every post in every thread. Like you never repeated yourself or something that someone else said.

 

[Swarles Barkley]

I just don't understand why we can't have 230mpg vehicles that don't look like stupid. Even the current hybrid vehicles on the market, like the Prius, just scream "I'm an eco friendly gas miser, look at me look at me!" All I want is good gas mileage in a normal looking vehicle. Why is that so difficult to do?

Honda makes a perfectly normal looking Civic Hybrid. 45 mpg highway and it doesn't look like something Woody Allen drove in "Sleeper":

http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-hybrid/

As for me, I'll stick with my "brilliant red Barchetta".

 

[Michael]

OK, OK, I get it. I started a thread about something that had already been posted. Jeez, the forum police are out in force. Excuuuuuuuuuuuuse meeeeeeeeeeee for not reading every post in every thread.

Excuse accepted.

Like you never repeated yourself or something that someone else said.

No, my posts are always quite original.

*goes on to post another "Best of Season X" thread*

 

[Lee]

Honda makes a perfectly normal looking Civic Hybrid. 45 mpg highway and it doesn't look like something Woody Allen drove in "Sleeper"

 

[Frontier]

I want one of them cars.

What I like the best for it's Trek adventure is that the back end reminds of the 1701's Impulse Engines.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I just don't understand why we can't have 230mpg vehicles that don't look like stupid. Even the current hybrid vehicles on the market, like the Prius, just scream "I'm an eco friendly gas miser, look at me look at me!" All I want is good gas mileage in a normal looking vehicle. Why is that so difficult to do?

You have to wait until either the Germans or the Italians design a hybrid... they design good-looking cars. The below image is all the proof we need that the Japanese cannot and should not design cars.

 

[MANT!]

heck I knew that in the 70s...

 

[Just_Bob]

I just don't understand why we can't have 230mpg vehicles that don't look like stupid. Even the current hybrid vehicles on the market, like the Prius, just scream "I'm an eco friendly gas miser, look at me look at me!" All I want is good gas mileage in a normal looking vehicle. Why is that so difficult to do?

You have to wait until either the Germans or the Italians design a hybrid... they design good-looking cars. The below image is all the proof we need that the Japanese cannot and should not design cars.

Is that the next XB? I like the overall design right up to where the side mirrors stop. The rest is just 'fugly'. I do like the wheels, however.

 

[Tralah]

I don't think it would be TOO bad it weren't for that ugly orange color that makes it look like a plastic toy.

 

[M'Sharak]

When they also, by pure coincidence, made the original Nissan S-30/Fairlady Z/Datsun 240-Z and the Toyota 2000GT?