Tuesday 28th May 2002

You Won't Hear Us Coming

Silent cars for noise patrol

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[.mark]

Presumably it'll only be a couple of months before Max Power and the like produce a sports exhaust for it

[Don]

Mate of mine has got one of these. They are BIZARRE. Once they're warmed up they actually switch the engine on and off as necessary....this means that in the last drive through the estate on the way home the thing can be using the electric engine only.

It is seriously weird driving about in it at low speeds.

Once its on the motorway you can cruise at 80mph quite effectively. They're not badly made, either.

Couldn't own one myself, like.....

[mattjbatch]

Silent and very quiet cars are dangerous to numpty pedestrians who don't look when they cross the road. All cars should be decatted and fitted with luverly sports exhausts for safety

>> Edited by mattjbatch on Tuesday 28th May 14:44

[james]

Exactly. I never ran anybody over in my Cerbera. They all heard me coming 5 miles away, and made sure that they were well and truly out of the road by the time I arrived.



James

[mondieu]

would have enjoyed seeing them turn up on a milk float though.

Cars should be noisy so when you ride a bike (pedal) you can here stuff coming when you cut across roads.

[smeagol]

I also have a mate with one and Don is right they are strange cars. It is really odd sitting at lights with no engine at all. Silently gliding round the supermarket its an ideal stealth killer!

Must also say the graphics screen is a hoot. You get a graph showing your fuel consumption and a diagram to show where energy is going and .... what a toy! (sorry officer no I didn't notice the traffic had stopped, but look how much energy I saved when I hit the queue!)

In all seriousness if I did lots of miles a year and wanted something that got me from A to B efficiently, economically and in reasonable comfort this car would be on my list.

[pjg]

Like Don says... these things are bizzare - worth a go just for the hell of it!

Much to my amusement I managed to leave a numpty (in a nice brown nova) standing at the lights on the test drive! - Give the pedal some stick and you get petrol and electric motor together (quite nippy to about 40mph!