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Subject:Re: Friday: So, where's the Westfalia version of this thing, komrade?
From:Jim Felder
Date:Fri, 13 May 2016 17:52:17 +0000

Obviously a town car. But I like it that they assumed very little in the
design. Never mind how everyone else gets in a car. Where's the most useful
place for the door? Like an Isetta turned around.

Jim

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:38 PM David Bohannan <fjazzbass@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure this was designed for anything other than maybe a short
> distance runaround...
>
> I do love the modular externalities however and have wondered for years
> why someone else hadn't designed a shell with multi purpose components!?
>
> Dave
>
> > On May 13, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Water, microwave, top bunk. It could be a nice way to travel for very
> > casual camping.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:33 AM David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> A camper version would be really confined, methinks.  Bed up top?  Or
> two
> >> narrow beds along the sides, with some sort of fold up system?  No
> kitchen,
> >> but a built in ice chest under a seat perhaps.  I don't see a vehicle
> this
> >> small being converted to a full camper.
> >>
> >> So far as the comment on the web site suggesting the luggage (or
> whatever
> >> is being carried) flying around in sharp turns (or more seriously, in an
> >> accident), provision could be made for latching it down.  Most hatch
> backs
> >> don't really provide for cargo security, and whether they should or not,
> >> lots of people haul loose cargo in people space in sedans.  Many people
> >> probably haul things in Vanagons (or other vans) without securing it.
> Not
> >> wise, perhaps, but it is done.
> >>
> >>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.gizmag.com/mirrow-provocator-city-car/43303/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=dbcf8943f0-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-dbcf8943f0-92378833
> >>>
> >>> Jim
> >>
> >>
>