Who'd want a car like this . . . when they could have one like this . . . "Geneva Motor Show: Why it will be electrifying" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47404881
Depends entirely on WHERE I would be driving. The sports suspension on the BMW would be miserable to drive in Manhattan while the Citroen would be comfortable on those same roads. OTOH if I was driving along a mountain road in the Alps then the reverse would be true. There are not many vehicles that can do both successfully at an affordable price.
I certainly would not want that lardy beemer in Cornwall, too big to have any fun with on the country roads!
I sat in a traffic jam for an hour while a woman sat in her brand new beemer telling a bus driver he had to reverse up a hill! Finally the police were called and they drove the beemer through the gap the woman had been telling everyone her car would not go through! Happily it was at a spot called Watergate bay one of the most beautiful spots in Cornwall!
Some people are utterly clueless as to how wide their vehicles actually are. Professionals who drive buses and trucks are very good judges IMO.
If they sold them here in the USA there would be a ready market amongst cash strapped Millennials and Gen Z.
It's quite amazing to me how comparatively few of our friends' 17-25 year old children have bothered to get a drivers licence and how few of those who have one bother to own a car. Those who live in the country and who don't have access to public transport all do, but those who have moved to cities either don't bother to drive at all, or rent a car on those occasions that they need one.
My 46 year old niece doesn't have a car, but does have a license. Doesn't need a car for everyday life, but can either borrow one from a friend, or some program that timeshares cars as needed. Insurance in some areas is prohibitive, along with $1000 plus your left leg for parking the thing. Can't blame them for not bothering.
'With a maximum speed of 28mph'? Even at that speed it looks like a prospective coffin on wheels; there's always the possibility of being hit by another vehicle which is exceeding the speed limit - and it does happen sometimes!! On the other hand, the Smart For2 has an extraordinarily good safety rating because of the design of the occupant space - well, 95% of the car is occupant space?
How do you know that the Citroen won't be just as safe as a Smart vehicle? In Sweden 16 year olds are allowed to drive modified vehicles with a top speed of 18 mph on the roads. https://www.carsaddiction.com/articles/2014/08/the-swedish-a-traktor
At the moment it's only a concept car but if it's going to make it into production then it's going to have to have a good crash safety rating. Doubtless better than my MGB or Jaguar XJ-S and likely better than Mrs Don's 11 year old Skoda Fabia. It looks to be a purely urban vehicle and as it's aimed at the car-sharing market it's likely that it'll be the four wheel equivalent of the "Boris bike" rather than being something that people actually go out and buy. It's not the sort of thing I'd use. I live in a rural area and so many of my journeys are a length and done at a speed which is incompatible with that kind of machine. If I'm in a city, I'll use public transport. If I lived in a city though, and wanted to go to the supermarket and so on, maybe I'd rent one for an hour.
I'd be tempted to buy one. I'm reminded of when I owned a Fiat 126, and the stuff I used to get away with when commuting to London - such as being able to get into the near-side lane at a wide-ish single approach to traffic lights for example. I'm not a 'fun person' but I sure had some fun in the two that I've owned, way back when. It all ended when I got my first company car.
Your well known bad habit of posting irrelevant tabloid drivel in the Science forum is NOT my problem. Instead I was just complementing you from refraining from doing it on this occasion.
If you have access to public transportation a person could do well without a car. But it would limit hauling anything....or going where the buses don't go. I don't feel like a man unless i have a pickup. But I do live in the sticks.
I live in the sticks, I have a pick up, I have a small SUV, and I have a Kubota tractor. None of the above make me feel like a man.
OP "Hunterston B: Pictures show cracks in Ayrshire nuclear reactor" Nah, like I've said, diesel's the way to go - at least the adverse affects are concentrated, and not nationwide as they would be in the event of a nuke power station meltdown (think 'Chernobyl', think 'Hunterston B'?): and with diesel we won't have to worry about the stored spent control rods, which will stay radioactive for the next zillion years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47485321
Gotta carry the tire repair shop somewhere and that is why I have a truck while living in the country.
