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Motor Vehicles

Honda is testing what it calls its Driving Safety Support Systems (DSSS). 2 vehicles, a Honda Odyssey, Advanced Safety Vehicle (ASV-4) and a Honda Forza scooter, are equipped with inter-vehicle and road-to-vehicle communications capabilities, plus other scooters will be used for camera detection purposes.
The purpose of the project is to utilize positional information gleaned from [...]

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Motorcycle Powered Hydrostatic Drive Racecar

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 2/11/2008

in Alternative thinking, Motor Vehicles

As long as we’re discussing hydrostatic drive around here with the diesel hydrostatic drive motorcycle and a 2WD hydrostatic trail bike, how about a hydrostatic drive race car? Bob Horn sent in this link showing some design work done by students at Aston University in England.
As part of a project called the Global Design Initiative [...]

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Well, here it is, the Tata Nano, the People’s Car we wrote about the other day. The fuel injected, all aluminum, 623 cc 2 cylinder engine puts out 33PS (about 32 horsepower) and drives the rear wheels. According to the press release below, it has crumple zones, intrusion-resistant doors, seat belts, strong seats and anchorages [...]

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Suzuki SXForce Motorcycle Themed Show Car

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 11/6/2007

in Motor Vehicles, Motorcycle Shows

Suzuki motorcycles are big sellers and well known in the marketplace, Suzuki cars, not so much. They have been trying to get a little motorcycle magic to rub off on their automotive line with TV ads where both appear side by side but at the SEMA show, this SXForce show car was on display where [...]

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Yamaha will be introducing a lot of new concept vehicles at the Tokyo Motor Show and the Yamaha Tesseract, a 4 wheel leaning vehicle ups the ante when compared to all of the other 3 wheel tilters coming out.
The Tesseract is a hybrid 4 wheeler, powered by both a V-Twin gasoline engine and an electric [...]

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Vento Reptile 400 ATV

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 9/18/2007

in Motor Vehicles, Motorcycle Business

If you were wondering what Vento would put their 400 cc 3 cylinder engine into, the first vehicle installation has been announced, it’s the Vento Reptile 400 ATV. It looks like it should do very well in that platform but a lot of us will be interested to see what the motorcycles look like when [...]

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Hayabusa V8 Powered Ariel Atom by Dennis Palatov

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 9/18/2007

in Engines, Motor Vehicles

Dennis Palatov really likes the Hayabusa V8, of course, it’s hard not to. Dennis, though, has the experience of building the DP1, a carbon fiber bodied track day car with a Hartley Enterprises Hayabusa V8 for power. Being the kind of guy he is, one is never enough so the next thing you know, Dennis [...]

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With the Piaggio MP3, the T-Rex, the Bombardier Can-Am Spyder and more three wheelers inevitably on the way, state laws will have to work to keep up, figuring out how they want to classify them for licensing and registration. Delaware now has a law pending that will require operators of these vehicles to have [...]

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