Date:    Fri, 3 Dec 1999 07:32:29 -0500
From:    EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject: Re: wow Amphibious vehicle!

   John,
      Sorry first, but your out there a ways.... No car, (I must repeat
this) "NO car" in recent history has been "all new" or in your words
"designed from ground up". Even GM stated, several years back, the cost
(and risks) are just to much. Only a total economic chance would a
ground
up design, ever appear again.

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How about the fairly recent British-designed Sinclair 3-wheeler that
featured the driver in a reclining position.
Not a commercial success (it was closed out in the Damark catalog) but
it was a fresh design from the ground up. That is unless you count the
wheel as an existing design.